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2021 • 2020 • 2019 • 2018 • 2017 • 2016 • 2015 • 2014 • 2013 • 2012 • 2011 • 2010 • 2009 • 2008

2021 February 19 How many time do the libraries we use dictate our genealogy research results?

2020 October 23 The Downman Daughters, 1778-1852
2020 September 2 Genealogy at a Glance: Virginia
2020 June 19 2020: The Year Without Genealogy…

2019 October 25 Virginia Cherokees
2019 May 20 Genealogy by Discrimination: A Little Known Research Strategy
2019 January 31 Origins of Virginia Families

2018 September 5 Demands for Instant Ancestors/Answers– are Pirates of the Pedigree!
2018 September 3 Virginia Books and Your Genealogy…
2018 September 3 Add to your Autumn Reading and Study List for Virginia:

2017 March 21 The Carolina Road
2017 January 18 Virginia Cemeteries, Part III
2017 January 17 Virginia Cemetery Records, Part II
2017 January 16 How Cemetery Records and Inscriptions Can Expand Your Virginia Genealogy:

2016 October 6 Some Notes on the Nansemond Indians
2016 March 3 Virginia Church Records
2016 February 26 Virginia Genealogy Ghosts…
2016 February 20 Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library, Lancaster, Virginia

2015 November 26 Is your Virginia Ancestor Scots?
2015 August 24 Markers and your Virginia Genealogy
2015 June 29 Study Compiled Genealogies and Family Histories
2015 May 27 Virginia Marriage Records, including Ministers’ Registers and Diaries

2014 November 25 Why I Cook…
2014 November 18 If you don’t have time to download your photos…
2014 October 24 Bring your own Professional and Expert Research Assistants with you to the Family History Library.
2014 September 23 Why Virginia Church Records Are Important
2014 September 15 Recent Slavery Studies Increase our Understanding of real American Life
2014 June 24 Guides to Virginia Manuscript Records–the Real Value of Finding Aids
2014 May 29 Some Virginia Alternative Record Creators…
2014 May 20 Traditional Genealogy Search Methods, carefully followed, Are Often Needed For Tidewater Virginia Records.
2014 March 19 Countdown to 25 March 2014 Blog Launch for Pre-1600/1750 British Isles Genealogy
2014 February 25 Overheard at the Winter Olympics in Sochi
2014 February 2 Holly Hansen’s Southern U.S. Genealogy Collection Finds a Welcoming Home!

2013 December 27 Virginia Settlers: A Glossary
2013 December 3 Migration around Virginia and Across its Boundaries:
2013 November 21 Many Levels of Virginia Jurisdictions Safeguard Your Genealogy from Record Loss
2013 October 8 The Web of Virginia Kinship
2013 September 26 Genealogy Success and the Settlement of Jamestown Virginia, 14 May 2007…
2013 July 23 No more commenting
2013 June 18 A Little Ol’ Parasite Cannot Keep a Good Woman Down…
2013 May 30 The Genealogy Bug?
2013 March 18 Indexes to the Virginia Patents and Grants

2012 November 28 What is New Virginia?
2012 October 19 America’s Real Independence Day–19 October…read on…
2012 October 16 The Virginia-North Carolina Boundary Line and Your Genealogy
2012 September 25 Welcome to my new, updated Virginia blog site…
2012 September 12 Virginia Tax Records–Newly Available
2012 August 18 Go with the Know How…Southern Land and Property Records, Part 2
2012 August 15 Reason says: Go with the Well-Known. Instinct says: Go with the Know-How.
2012 May 10 Genealogy Strategies I Know Work!
2012 April 20 New proof added to Eakle genealogy tradition…
2012 March 30 New Phone Numbers

2011 December 31 Newly Indexed Virginia Tax Accounts
2011 October 8 Computer Down & Peter Force’s “American Archives”
2011 September 5 Southern Huguenots–Unheralded Settlers in Virginia and other Southern Colonies
2011 June 23 Using Bounty Records for Virginia Research
2011 June 11 Nancy Perry Graham, editor of AARP Magazine says,”Discover Your Own Roots.”
2011 April 30 All Southern Ancestors Program Offered at Clayton Library, Saturday 27 August 2011
2011 March 8 Native American DNA Scattered Abroad…

2010 December 2 “Just a reminder…we need librarians and archivsts in these tumultuous times…”
2010 November 1 Vanity Run Amouk…And Your Genealogy!
2010 October 26 Research Retreat in Salt Lake City UT…right now, live!
2010 October 20 War and Its Impact on Your Virginia Ancestors
2010 October 14 African-American Sources for Virginia
2010 October 12 Grand Genealogy Conference sponsored by Family History Expos in Atlanta GA–You won’t want to miss it!
2010 October 5 New Resources for Loudoun County, Virginia
2010 August 31 The People Differences in Virginia: a Checklist of Characteristics
2010 August 18 New Southwest Virginia Computer Database
2010 August 4 Naming Patterns Can Contribute NEW Evidence to your Virginia Ancestors
2010 June 7 Tidewater Virginia–A Workplace for your Ancestors
2010 May 14 Free Persons of Color…continued
2010 May 6 What Virginia Cemeteries Tell US
2010 April 23 Book Lovers Day–23 April 2010–and Genealogy Optimism!
2010 February 15 Origins of Many Swiss-German (and perhaps Holland Dutch)
2010 February 9 Virginia Snow Storms and Original Genealogy Documents
2010 February 1 1 Feb 1865–Freedom Day in America, the Land of the Free
2010 January 20 The Span of the Human Memory…and your Virginia Genealogy
2010 January 1 Original Migration Patterns to Virginia

2009 December 11 Live from the Salt Lake Christmas Tour! with 18 Pounds of Southern Genealogy to Share.
2009 November 4 A 2007 Virginia Genealogy Guide You Have Not Yet Studied!
2009 October 16 Original Virginia Documents
2009 September 30 Arlene’s having computer problems
2009 September 6 The Virginia Heritage Project
2009 August 10 Coats of Arms– A Mark of Identity and Relationship for Your Virginia Ancestors
2009 July 31 Virginia Migrations, Part IV
2009 July 28 Migrations into and out of Virginia–Part III
2009 July 20 Virginia Migrations You Probably Have Not Yet Considered
2009 July 17 Virginia Migration Patterns
2009 July 2 Online Virginia Resources
2009 June 22 The Original 1624/25 Muster of the Inhabitants (Census) and the Virginia Colonial Records Project
2009 June 8 Early Settlement In West Virginia Is A Challenge
2009 June 4 A Virginia Genealogy Quickie
2009 May 25 Traditional Genealogy Search Methods Are Often Needed For Virginia Records
2009 May 16 Amateur vs Professional
2009 May 11 Virginia’s People, And, Your Ancestors
2009 May 8 Tracing a hard-to-find Scottish Ancestor?
2009 April 29 The Case for Surname Research in Virginia Genealogy
2009 April 21 Search Them All, Search Them All, Search Them All…
2009 April 13 “The South” and Surname Research
2009 March 30 Genealogy Migration to the Shenandoah Valley
2009 March 24 The Hard Work Is Already Done!
2009 March 14 Your Very Own Genealogy Economic Stimulus Package
2009 February 7 Experience: The Best Virginia Genealogy Teacher
2009 February 1 Don’t Pluck the Daisy: Look at all the Candidates.
2009 January 27 Finding Virginia Sources–What you don’t know can mess you up!
2009 January 12 Harper’s Ferry and Your Virginia Genealogy Evidence

2008 December 18 “Free Persons of Color” and “All Other Free Persons”
2008 November 14 7 Dec-13 Dec 2008. Salt Lake Christmas Tour, Family History Library in Salt Lake City UT.
2008 November 5 Mesa Family History Expo–14-15 Nov 2008–Finding Hard-to-Find Virginia Ancestors and MORE
2008 November 4 Virginia Genealogists, Books, and Trees–Part II
2008 October 30 Virginia Genealogists, Books, and Trees
2008 October 25 Virginia Land and Tax Terms
2008 October 20 Early Virginia Research: The Jurisdictional Challenge, Part 2
2008 October 12 Original Virginia Records Imaged and Indexed Online
2008 October 7 When the Records are Gone–A Genealogy Research Strategy
2008 October 5 Tracing a Southern Pedigree
2008 September 17 Finishing, Adding to, Expanding, Revizing, Correcting, and Updating the Genealogy Work Left to US
2008 September 8 “Virginia Hasn’t Always Been For Lovers”
2008 September 2 Genealogy by Discrimination
2008 August 27 “A Search Strategy This Useful Shouldn’t Be Kept Secret” Charlie Brown
2008 August 17 Homeland Security and your Genealogy
2008 August 5 Virginia Treasury Warrants Databases and other Kentucky Genealogy Delights
2008 July 18 A Source for Virginia (and West Virginia) Marriages–A Minisode
2008 July 16 Seize From Every Record Its Unique Genealogy Evidence
2008 July 7 The Contribution of the Manor to the Settlement and Growth of Virginia
2008 July 2 Independence Week: A Virginia Perspective
2008 June 21 Behold Virginia: The Jurisdictional Challenge—
2008 June 10 My Favorite Virginia Genealogy Sources
2008 June 2 Whenever I Speak at a Genealogy Conference…
2008 May 27 Virginia Law–1730: Was it Enforced?
2008 May 14 “In the beginning, all was Virginia…”
2008 May 5 Virginia Tax and Rent Rolls: Another Look.
2008 April 30 Thousands of Virginians Moved West 1782, 1783, 1784, 1785, 1786, 1787, 1788, 1789, 1790, 1791, 1792, and on, and on…
2008 April 23 Name Lists for the Virginia Frontier
2008 April 16 Reconstructed Census, 1774-1810: Berkeley County, Virginia
2008 April 9 Virginia Genealogy is an International Pursuit.
2008 April 2 The Search for your Virginia Ancestors’ Buried Past
2008 March 20 Virginia Tax and Rent Rolls: A Checklist of Evidence
2008 March 14 Are your Virginia Ancestors Scots or Scots-Irish?
2008 March 4 Tuckahoes and Cohees/Cohoes: The Scots-Irish, Ulster Scots, Anglo Scots, Ulster Irish
2008 February 29 More Virginia Legalities that Affect your Genealogy Success!
2008 February 26 The Four Goff Brothers of Western Virginia: A New Perspective on their Lives
2008 February 21 Arlene Eakle’s Virginia Genealogy Research Notebooks
2008 February 18 Virginia Origins in Southwestern England?
2008 February 14 “Virginia is for Lovers” of genealogy…
2008 February 1 Launch date 14 Feb 2008