Southside Virginia Families

Southside Virginia Families
Author: John Bennett Boddie
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 391
Release: 1966
Genre: Registers of births, etc
ISBN: 080630040X

The second volume of the set (see Item 531) covers more families from the early counties of Virginia's Lower Tidewater and Southside regions. With an index in excess of 10,000 names.

Southside Virginia Families, Vol. #2

Southside Virginia Families, Vol. #2
Author: John Bennett Boddie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 428
Release: 2019-06-21
Genre:
ISBN: 9780893088774

By: John Bennett Boddie, Pub. 1956, Reprinted 2019, 428 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-877-3. The Tidewater area of Virginia was one of the early regions within the colonies that received large amouts of immigrant coming in from over seas. This set of books on the early families of this are among some of the most frequently consulted works on that area due to Mr. Boddie's impressive and detailed research. This second volume of the set covers families from the early counties of Isle of Wight, Surry, and Sussex. Genealogies are for the families of Arrington, Bailey, Barham, Barker, Branch, Chappell, Cloud, Cocer, Cofer, Coffer, Coker, Collier, Copher, Darden-Durden, Edmunds, Foliot, Green, Gurgany, Hargrave, Hart, Harvin, Herbert, Hill, Holt, Judkins, Lane, Lucas, McKain, Macon, Mann, Norwood, Perry, Philips, Rogers, Sorrell-Earle-Warren, Stover, Taylor, Tyas-Tyus, Westbrook, and Worsham-Marshall. The index to this volume has approximately 10,000 names.

Randolph Macon College in the Early Years

Randolph Macon College in the Early Years
Author: John Caknipe, Jr.
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 341
Release: 2015-01-28
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1476616027

This book summarizes the history of the first Randolph Macon College, and how it intertwined with the Boydton, Virginia, community. While in Boydton, almost 300 students took a degree. This book tracks the lives of these graduates, many from before college, after graduation, throughout their participation in the Confederate government or military, after the War, and for many, until death. In pursuing the research, the author came across an additional 100 men who had attended RMC, and their stories are included as well, along with the chaplains for the college chapel, the tutors for the college students and all adjunct and full-time faculty for the 38 year period. The graduates include 52 college presidents and numerous members of Congress. Many leaders of society, education and politics began their careers at RMC.

Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter

Ancestors of Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter
Author: Jeff Carter
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 225
Release: 2014-01-10
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0786489545

During his presidency, Jimmy Carter received a comprehensive analysis of his family's genealogy, dating back 12 generations, from leaders of the Mormon Church. More recently Carter's son Jeff took over the family history, determined to discover all that he could about his ancestors. This resulting volume traces every ancestral line of both Jimmy and Rosalynn Carter back to the original immigrants to America and chronicles their origins, occupations, and life dates. Among his forebears Carter found cabinet makers, farmers, preachers, illegitimate children, slave owners, indentured servants, a former Hessian soldier who fought against Napoleon, and even a spy for General George Washington at Valley Forge. With never-before-published historic photographs and a foreword by President Jimmy Carter, this is the definitive saga of a remarkable American family.

Bible Records of Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia

Bible Records of Suffolk and Nansemond County, Virginia
Author: Fillmore Norfleet
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 222
Release: 2009-06
Genre: Bible records
ISBN: 0806346221

Inasmuch as Nansemond County's official records were totally destroyed by fires in 1734, 1779, and 1866, the work at hand, originally published in 1963 and itself now quite scarce, represents a valiant effort to reconstruct something of Nansemond's genealogical heritage from the records of its surrounding counties. The core of the book consists of the contents of nearly 100 Bibles arranged alphabetically according to the surname of the book's owner, and, thereunder, in progressions of marriages, births, and deaths. In all, more than 1,000 mostly 18th- and 19th-century inhabitants of Suffolk and Nansemond are here rescued from obscurity and further made accessible in the index to Bible records at the back. Also includes transcriptions of marriage records and several other miscellaneous lists.

Southside Virginia Families, Vol. #1

Southside Virginia Families, Vol. #1
Author: John Bennett Boddie
Publisher:
Total Pages: 392
Release: 2019-07-18
Genre:
ISBN: 9780893088767

By: John Bennett Boddie, Pub. 1955, Reprinted 2019, 390 pages, Index, ISBN #0-89308-876-5. The Tidewater area of Virginia was one of the early regions within the colonies that received large amouts of colonial settlers. This set of books on the early families of this are among some of the most frequently consulted works on that area due to Mr. Boddie's impressive and detailed research. The first volume in this valuable two-volume set contains genealogies of families from the early counties of Isle of Wight, Prince George, and Surry. The families covered are as follows: Allen, Bailey, Ballard, Barker-Bradford-Taylor, Batte, Bell, Bennett-Pierce, Bishop-Stokes, Blunt, Boyce-Scott-Tatum, Braswell, Biggs, Browne, Burges, Cato, Champion, Clark, Cocke, Cooke, Corker, Dixon, Eaton, Faulcon, Flake, Fort, Goodrich, Gordon, Graves-Hancock, Hamblin-Hamlin, Hancock, Hill, Hines, Howle, Irwin, Jennings-Hill, Johnston, Jones, Jordan, Lanier, Lewis, Long, Massengill, Norfleet, Overton-Harris-Day, Pitt, Plummer, Rudulph, Sitgreaves, Sledge, Smith, Sweeney, Tyrus, Weldon, West, and Whitmel. The index to this volume has approximately 10,000 names.

Genealogies of Virginia Families

Genealogies of Virginia Families
Author:
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 3680
Release: 1981
Genre: Registers of births, etc
ISBN: 0806309474

From Tyler's quarterly historical and genealogical magazine.

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography

Dictionary of North Carolina Biography
Author: William S. Powell
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 397
Release: 2000-11-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807867012

The most comprehensive state project of its kind, the Dictionary provides information on some 4,000 notable North Carolinians whose accomplishments and occasional misdeeds span four centuries. Much of the bibliographic information found in the six volumes has been compiled for the first time. All of the persons included are deceased. They are native North Carolinians, no matter where they made the contributions for which they are noted, or non-natives whose contributions were made in North Carolina.

The Great Catastrophe of My Life

The Great Catastrophe of My Life
Author: Thomas E. Buckley, S.J.
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 361
Release: 2003-11-03
Genre: History
ISBN: 0807861480

From the end of the Revolution until 1851, the Virginia legislature granted most divorces in the state. It granted divorces rarely, however, turning down two-thirds of those who petitioned for them. Men and women who sought release from unhappy marriages faced a harsh legal system buttressed by the political, religious, and communal cultures of southern life. Through the lens of this hostile environment, Thomas Buckley explores with sympathy the lives and legal struggles of those who challenged it. Based on research in almost 500 divorce files, The Great Catastrophe of My Life involves a wide cross-section of Virginians. Their stories expose southern attitudes and practices involving a spectrum of issues from marriage and family life to gender relations, interracial sex, adultery, desertion, and domestic violence. Although the oppressive legal regime these husbands and wives battled has passed away, the emotions behind their efforts to dissolve the bonds of marriage still resonate strongly.