Two New Books
By Robert M. Wilbanks IV
Just in time for the 400th Anniversary of Jamestown! You don't have to have Virginia roots, or even be a genealogist, to find this book useful or just plain interesting. As the title suggests, this book provides historical background for the first hundred years of Virginia beginning with the 1607 settlement of Jamestown. Maps, historic chronologies, ships passenger lists, early parish and county formations, names of ships bringing settlers to Virginia, and much more provide details to the chapters on geography, exploration and discovery, settlement, early government, county formations, and Indian relations. A list of the most notable first families of Virginia, plus three pages listing the best genealogical Virgnia resources, round out the book. A perfect easy-to-read quick reference resource for any Virginia genealogist, or simple reading to enlighten anyone on the history of Jamestown and Virginia.
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Migrations of the VirginiansFor genealogists who have a brickwall along the Missouri River in the 1840s, or are stuck in southern Indiana in the 1820s, or in Kentucky in the 1790s? Consider looking to Virginia. This book shows that most states prior to the Civil War have strong Virginia ties with Virginia families accounting for a high percentage of the settlement into all of the states west of the Allegheny Mountains to the Mississippi River, and south and southwest of Virginia into the gulf states. It shows migration patterns into, within and out of Virginia. Included are the geography of the eastern half of North America, chronology of the first 100 years of Virginia settlement, reasons why people migrated, map of migration routes, chronology of migration out of Virginia, census statistics, chronologies of the early settlement of the various midwestern and southern states. The last page is a quick reference guide of resources to begin Virginia research.
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