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FAMILY ARCHIVE CDs
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Family Archives CD #503
This is the largest and most complete collection of Virginia colonial records
ever assembled on CD-ROM, representing the combined efforts of several
generations of talented and dedicated genealogists. Anyone with suspected
colonial Virginia ancestry will almost certainly find something of interest here
in the form of original source records, manuscripts, lineage records, or family
histories, for this Family Archive CD contains a treasure-trove of records that
identify many of Virginia"s earliest immigrants and settlers.
From records of immigration, headright records, land and tax records, and
early census records, to records of the colonial militia, vital records of
birth, marriage, and death, and court records of wills, deeds, and
administrations, this CD has it all--English origins, dates and places of
immigration, places of residence in the new colony, names of wives, children,
and other family members, occupations, ages, military service records--it even
has the names of the earliest landholders in Virginia, lists of Virginia"s
original immigrants and settlers, and the names of those who were listed in the
colony"s first census of 1623/24. It also boasts a comprehensive list of
Virginia"s colonial militiamen, giving data pertaining to each
soldier"s place of birth, age, residence, occupation, and physical
description, and a huge collection of records extracted from England"s
Public Record Office establishing the colonists" family connections with
the mother country and their former places of residence, as well as deeds,
wills, and other records recorded in English courts.
Naming nearly a quarter-million Virginians living in the colony between 1607
and 1776, this new CD is yet another collaborative effort between GPC and
Broderbund; like other such products it is designed to simplify genealogical
research by combining the images of pages of selected volumes published by GPC
with a single electronic name index which allows you to search all the volumes
quickly and effortlessly. Thus a search on a single name will turn up all
references to that name found in any of the following volumes:
* Virginia"s Colonial Soldiers, by Lloyd Bockstruck
* Virginia"s Colonial Militia, 1651-1776, by William Armstrong
Crozier
* List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia, by Hamilton J. Eckenrode
* Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants,
1623-1666, by Nell Marion Nugent
* Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, by George Cabell Greer
* Virginia Colonial Abstracts (34 vols.), by Beverly Fleet
* Virginia Gleanings in England, by Lothrop Withington
* Personal Names in Hening"s Statutes at Large of Virginia, by
Joseph J. Casey
* English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, by Louis Des Cognets,
Jr.
* The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704, by Annie. L. W. Smith
* Some Emigrants to Virginia, by William G. Stanard
* The Colonial Virginia Register, by William G. and Mary N. Stanard
* Colonial Records of Virginia, Committee of the Virginia State
Library
Featuring records of every description, from supposedly "lost"
records to records of "burnt counties," and from records of forced
transportation to the invaluable records of "headright" used in
support of land acquisition, this CD is an unrivalled tool in the
researcher"s arsenal of colonial reference works. Imagine! A
quarter-million of the most hard-to-find names on a disc no larger than the palm
of your hand, at a fraction of the price of the original volumes!
