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FAMILY ARCHIVE CDs
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free
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current
version of Family Archive Viewer
available at http://www.genealogy.com/abtffiv.html. The Family Tree Maker software program, version 4.0 through version 16 (2006) will also read these CDs. Family
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Family Archive CD #510 Retail Value of Books Included: $370.00
This Family Archive CD identifies 350,000 individuals in a unique collection
of colonial Virginia source records, namely, wills and administrations, marriage
records, family histories, tax records, newspaper abstracts, and military
records. The materials drawn on in this compilation are especially useful
because they were collected from local sources and cover a period of time before
centralized record-keeping was established. In all, this CD contains images of
the pages of ten books that were originally published by the Genealogical
Publishing Company. Among the ten are some of the most important Virginia
reference books ever published, many of them classics!
Clayton Torrence's Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800, for
example, lists the names of more than 50,000 individuals for whom wills and
administrations were recorded in the various counties of Virginia, some of which
are now in West Virginia. Marriages of Some Virginia Residents, 1607-1800,
a large two-volume work by Dorothy Wulfeck, presents a collection of 40,000
marriages with references to a quarter-million individuals, all of whom are
identified through ministers" returns, marriage bonds, Bible records,
parish records, and so on. Among the more unusual resources is a collection of
genealogical abstracts from 18th-century Virginia newspapers which names
thousands of individuals appearing in some 7,000 issues of 80 different
newspapers. And in Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-1787, there is a list of
Virginians that precedes even the first census listing of 1790.
With its emphasis on the colonial period--a murky area of genealogical
endeavor, at best--this CD combines a most fertile collection of books for
research in early Virginia source records. The following books, united by a
single electronic index, are included on the CD:
*Virginia Tax Payers, 1782-1787
*Genealogical Abstracts from 18th-Century Virginia Newspapers
*Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800
*Marriages of Some Virginia Residents, 1607-1800. 2 vols.
*Historical Collections of Virginia
*Gleanings of Virginia History
*Virginia Wills Before 1799
*Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania
*Early Quaker Records in Virginia
*Index to Obituary Notices
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| Item Number: | 401C-7510 |
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| List Price: | 39.99 |
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