"Tracing Our Roots" Newsletter Archive (A monthly genealogy newsletter written by the late Brenda Kellow, dec'd, for the Plano Star Courier newspaper. We've included all the ones we could recover.)
Southern Historical Press just reprinted a colonial Virginia parish record from their 1949 personal collection. This is one of the 15 available titles out of a total of 50 possible parishes. Lucky are those having roots in colonial Lynnhaven Parish during the period 1723-1786.
Lynnhaven was selected to be the first in a series to be republished because of its historical value relating to Virginia parish records. Included are the proceedings of the parish vestry through reorganization after the disestablishment of the Church of England in 1785 when the Protestant Episcopal Church replaced it. Then in 1785 the church s duties were passed to the Overseers of the Poor.
It has an every name index and is updated to reflect modern abbreviations and symbols. Also included is an appendix listing the rectors, wardens, vestrymen and presiding officers. Further publications will cover more of the colonial period. Preceding the actual records is a brief history.
Colonial Vestry Book of Lynnhaven Parish, 1723-1786 includes only the colonial and post-Revolutionary portions. Those whose collections do not contain this early title from the original publication have the opportunity to purchase it now from Southern Historical Press, Inc., P. O. Box 1267, Greenville, SC 29602-1267, or call 1-800-233-0152, for $28.50 plus shipping and handling.
SHOREY QUERY
Mrs. B. E. Shorey, 8080 112th St. #102, Seminole, FL 33772, email Beshorey@msn.com is hunting the parents and the birth place of Lucinda Shorey, born 1815, and died in Hill County, Texas in April 1889. Lucinda married Nathaniel Curbo in 1836 in Tennessee. Their children are: Frances Shorey who married William Nichols; Nancy Shorey born 1854; Thomas James Shorey born 1837 who married (1) Eliza Duncan, (2) Ellen McGuire; Margaret Samantha Shorey, born 1839 who married Benjamin Gilley; Willis Shorey born 1840 who married Margaret Duncan; Louise Shorey born 1842 who married James Sanders; Leander Shorey born 1847 who married Addie Toney (?); John Shorey born 1850 who married Lucinda Cook; and Maley Amanda Shorey born 1851 who married Joseph Burleson. If you are a Shorey researcher or if you have information on that family, please contact Mrs. Shorey at the address above.
NEW IN THE LIBRARY
Already on the shelves at Harrington Library are the following titles: Cite your sources: a manual for documenting family histories and genealogical records; The organized family historian; Easton album (Maryland); Planting your family tree online; The Family Tree guide book to Europe: your passport to tracing your genealogy across Europe; Todd County, Kentucky 1850 Federal Census; Abstracts of wills and records recorded in Books A & B, Montgomery County, Tennessee, 1796-1818; Kentucky Confederate veteran and widows pension index; Texas forgotten ports: mid-Gulf Coast ports from Corpus Christi to Matagorda Bay; An atlas of trails west of the Mississippi River; An atlas of Appalachian trails to the Ohio River; A history of Winkler County, 1887-1984.
WORLD WIDE GENEALOGY MEGA SITE
I love this site! You probably guessed that I am obsessed with genealogy. I think it is so much fun to hunt our family ancestors. Searching on the Internet is also enjoyable, but this new academic genealogy site is so much fun that I have to share it with my readers. It has everything. Yes, everything. To view it click on
www.academic-genealogy.com/ and visit the free coverage of the genealogy world in a nutshell. If for some reason you lose this URL, just click on the Genealogy Friends History and Genealogy site at www.geocities.com/genfriendsghl and then click on General Links. This is a must-see.
