This work is a selection of transcripts gleaned from the published Acts of the Virginia General Assembly. ... The focus of the present collection is divorces and name changes. Every instance of these two activities that was found in the published acts has been included here. ..."--Page iii.
The purpose of this work is to present a single alphabetical index based on the General Index to Deeds No. 2, 1867-1904, that was created in the style known as a Campbell Index. The purpose here is to resequence and validate the index. What typically results from a Campbell Index is a jumble that requires users to flip back and forth between groups of pages throughout the entire index to seek out where various groups are continued elsewhere. This present index is largely made up of entries to deeds, being either: bargain and sales, bills of sale, or trust deeds. Of additional interest may be: bonds for officials (including ministers), marriage contracts, estate divisions, plats, or even Homestead deeds. No bonds are recorded in the deed books after 1892 (Deed Book 56). The index also reflects entries in a book titled Deeds of Release No. 1, which contains only thirty-nine pages of written information. Some deficiencies in the original index have been addressed here. As a result, hundreds of additional index entries were added by the compiler over the original courthouse index. References to plats that did not appear in the original index have been added. 2022, 81/2x11, paper, alphabetical, 252 pp.
This work is a compilation of data found in 1,478 marriage bonds or consents of Essex County, Virginia, for the years 1804 through 1850. These are the earliest marriage records that survive for the county � those before were either burned or inadvertently destroyed. These original records are not generally served to researchers, rather researchers are directed to a bound Register of Marriages (Book One) that lists the bonds. Each entry references the page in this Register on which the information may be found. The most bonds were issued in 1835 (forty-seven) and 1827 (forty), with the other years averaging about thirty each. The fewest bonds are found for 1826 (seventeen).Individual entries in this work were derived primarily from marriage bonds and consents (by guardian or parent), and have been supplemented with data taken from outside sources such as: family Bible records, cemetery records, military records, and other publications. Not all entries contain information from outside sources. The format is two-fold: the first part of the paragraph is used for sequencing of the groom, and includes what data the compiler has found outside of the marriage record itself. Followed by this is the consolidated public marriage record (with the names of the bride and groom in capital letters), including the date of the marriage bond, and citing the main sources for the information used. The text is supplemented with nearly 900 footnotes by the compiler, an every-name index that contains over 9,000 entries, and a bibliography.
For this work, the compiler reviewed microfilm copies of a number of guardians accounts or records books for the period 1707-1888 in Essex County, Virginia. The problem that users often face with using this type of original record is that the court indexes to the guardianship records usually refer to the person bonded or the guardian, and not the ward who is the primary interest for genealogical research. Most of the entries here are from sources that actually have "Guardians" on the spine of the original record book. Also, particularly for the early years, guardianship records (mainly bonds) may be found in Will Books. The index that is created here frequently presents the name of the ward, the name of a deceased or living parent, and the name of the guardian. Since public birth records do not begin in Essex County until 1856 and are rather incomplete for many years thereafter, the guardianship records supplement that void by frequently showing a parent-to-child relationship. Sadly, the earliest guardian bonds rarely give the name of the parent of the orphan.The filing date is indexed here for most records except bonds wherein the date the bond was executed is used. Oftentimes a guardian account is presented to the court earlier than the date it is finally recorded, as it frequently sat in "limbo" for one or more months pending any exceptions presented. As time goes on, one will find that a certificate may be recorded for a minor over the age of fourteen years who has chosen a guardian. A corresponding bond may list additional minors in the same family group who are under the age of fourteen years.A buried name index adds to the value of this work.
This work is a compilation of data found in 1,510 marriage records of Westmoreland County, Virginia, for the years 1850 through 1880. The index, which is made up of over 12,000 entries, contains a heading for C.S.A. to list 212 Confederate soldiers identified.
Contains town histories of Amesbury, Andover, Haverhill, Ipswich, Lawrence, Lynn, Lynnfield, Methuen, Nahant, North Andover, Saugus, Swampscot, and Merrimac, plus biographical sketches of leading citizens. Also includes genealogical information about the various communities within Essex county, Massachusetts.
This collection is filled with references to apprentices, bonds for public position, guardians, emancipation of slaves, military service references, powers of attorney, and deeds, gifts, mortgages, agreements, and polls; as well as multiple polls or election lists.
This collection is filled with references to apprentices, bonds for public position, guardians, emancipation of slaves, powers of attorney, and deeds, gifts, mortgages, agreements, and polls; as well as multiple lists of taxes collected and election or poll lists.
This index represents marriage records for not only residents of the District of Columbia, but also neighboring Virginia, Maryland, and elsewhere. The compiler found numerous instances where both the groom and bride resided more than a hundred miles away.
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