Books & Journals

Books & Journals

 

The Society has published the following books:

The Death Records of Gloucester County, Virginia - 1865 - 1890

Out of print

   
The Marriage Records of Gloucester County, Virginia - 1853 - 1895

Book Order Form

   
1900 Federal Census for Gloucester County, Virginia

Book Order Form

   
Tax Account of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1770-1771
     Includes Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          266 pages

 Out of print    PDF Version

   
Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1782-1791
          Volume 1

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Kingston, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          278 pages

Out of print

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1792-1803
          Volume 2

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          256 pages

Book Order Form

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1804-1813
          Volume 3

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          308 pages

Book Order Form

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1814-1820
          Volume 4

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          300 pages

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Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1821-1826
          Volume 5

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          266 pages

Book Order Form

 

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1827-1832
          Volume 6

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          286 pages

Book Order Form

 

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1833-1838
          Volume 7

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          286 pages

Book Order Form

 

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1839-1844
          Volume 8

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          310 pages

Book Order Form

 

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1845-1850
          Volume 9

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          331 pages

Book Order Form

 

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1851-1855
          Volume 10

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          346 pages

Book Order Form

 

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1856-1860
          Volume 11

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          354 pages

Book Order Form

 

Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1861-1866
          Volume 12

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          354 pages

Book Order Form

 

 
Tax Records of Gloucester County Virginia -- 1867-1870
          Volume 13

     Land and Personal Property tax assessments for Abingdon, Petsworth, and Ware Parishes
          354 pages

Book Order Form

 

 

To order, print the order page and return it to us with your check.

 

   
 The Society publishes two issues of the Family Tree Searcher journal each year for its membership.  Some extra copies are available to be purchased by the public at our regular meetings, at local book stores, or by mail-order.  Each issue is listed below with its respective table of contents.  Also, PDF versions of each issue is available. 
  Anyone wishing to have a printed copy may use the mail-order form that is provided.
 

Journal Contents
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  The FTS has been published in the present format since 1998, and twenty-two issues have been published through 2008.  The table of contents of each issue is compiled into one PDF file.  This file contain a list of article titles and authors that can be searched using key words. 

Journal Index
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  Index of including surnames, place names, and subjects in the FTS Journal articles.  Surnames in parenthesis are Married Names.  Locations are noted in parenthesis as follows: (vol/no).  Date: 6/21/2018

 

Vol. 1,  Six newsletters for 1996-1997

Vol. 1, No. 1, Newsletter, September 1996    PDF Verson
Vol. 1, No. 2,
Newsletter, December 1996    PDF Verson
Vol. 1, No. 3, Newsletter, March 24, 1997     PDF Verson
Vol. 1, No. 4, Newsletter, June 1997         PDF Verson
Vol. 1, No. 5, Newsletter, September 1997   PDF Verson
Vol. 1, No. 6, Newsletter, December 1997    PDF Verson
     

     Vol. 2, No. 1, June 1998, Theme: The 1850s  PDF Version  - ORDER

  •   The People of Gloucester County in 1850, by Roger Davis

  •   What the Census Tells Us About Gloucester in 1850, by Ann Earl

  •   Gloucester Post Offices in 1850, by Donald Dowling

  •   Hand-Me-Down Tales from Guinea, by Nan McComber

  •   Richard A. Roane in 1850, L. Roane Hunt

  •   Drawn to the Water, A Tale of One City and Two Shores, by John M. Roberts

  •   1784 Gloucester County Census, by Marie Hodges from the Internet

     Vol. 2, No. 2, December 1998, Theme: The Civil War  PDF Version  ORDER

  •   Amanda's Short Stories, by Amanda Thomas

  •   Gloucester County and the Civil War 1861-1865, by J. Edward Thornton

  •   A Civil War Story of "Waterview" at Gloucester Point, by J. Edward Thornton

  •   Spiritual Revival in the 26th Virginia Infantry, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Dr. Walter Reed: Gloucester County's Modern Medical Hero from the Last Century, by Zack Loesch

  •   Well Know Houses in Gloucester County, VA During the Civil War, 1861-1865, by Roger C. Davis

  •   The Mathews Light Virginia Artillery, by Marie Hodges from the Internet

     Vol. 3, No. 1, June 1999, Theme: World War I  PDF Version  ORDER

  •   World War I is the Time Frame -- 1910 to 1920, by Roger C. Davis

  •   Gloucester County During World War I, by J. Edward Thornton

  •   Cornelia Elizabeth Thornton (1893-1918), by Roger C. Davis

  •   Gloucester Support Agencies, by Robert Hoskins Warren

  •   Mathews County During World War I, by Robert Hoskins Warren

  •   Supplies for Company A, 5th Virginia Cavalry, by L. Roane Hunt & Mary Barnett

  •   Historical Notes on the Founding of the Achilles Friends Church, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Ancestors of Anna Florence Fleming, by L. Roane Hunt

     Vol. 3, No. 2, June 1999, Theme: World War II  PDF Version  .....Out of Print

  •   World War II and Gloucester County in the 1940's, by Roger C. Davis

  •   Grave Sites of WWII Veterans, by Joan Kanter

  •   Memories of the Home Front --Ruth Smitt shares her WWII years at Gary, Indiana, by Ruth Smitt

  •   Country Stores -- Genealogy -- Art, by Ben Borden

  •   Descendants of Samuel Muse, by Ben Borden

  •   Pointer Brothers Store and Bena Post Office, by Marion Clements

  •   Descendants of Michael Pointer, by Sylvia Rowe & L. Roane Hunt

  •   Descendants of Daniel Fitchett, by John Fitchett

  •   Roane's Store Off the Ware River, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   In the Company of Harriet Cowen

  •   Pen and Ink Sketches of Country Stores/Post Offices, by Harriet Cowen

     Vol. 4, No. 1, June 2000The Death Records of Gloucester County, Virginia - 1865 - 1890
        This book containing the death records of Gloucester was published in place of FTS, vol. 4, no. 1.

     Vol. 4, No. 2, December 2000, Theme: The Gloucester "Hall of Fame"  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The Gloucester "Hall of Fame," by L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Gloucester Old Court

  •   The Clerks of Gloucester County Court

  •   Warner Pinkerton Roane of Mount Prodigal, by M. Annette Taylor

  •   "Guinea Cousins," by L. Roane Hunt

  •   The U. S. Census as a Source to Climb Those Brick Walls, by Barbara Bowen

  •   Good Neighbors, by L. Roane Hunt

     Vol. 5, No. 1, June 2001, Theme: Gloucester Families  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Purcell Family of Gloucester County, Virginia, by John F. Hartman

  •   James Lee Kemp, Harriett Pauline Kemp and Family, by James Monroe Jones

  •   The Gayle Family of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Gayle N. Mandell

  •   Some Gloucester Connections of Virgil M. Forrest & Lucy V. Seawell, by Roger C. Davis

  •   Gloucester Beginnings With the Burwells, by Jennie Stokes Howe

  •   The Berkeley Family in Virginia, by Joan Stubbs

  •   The Descendants of William F. Hall, by Warren F. Chauncey

     Vol. 5, No. 2, December 2001, Theme: 1912 Survey Map by R. A. Folks  PDF Version    .....Out of Print

  •   John Irvin Lawson and Family of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Roger C. Davis

  •   Joseph Dobson of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Judith Rowe Mays

  •   Little England of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Judith Rowe Mays

  •   "Steaming" on Gloucester Rivers, by Robert W. Plummer

  •   Cross-County Cousins: New Middlesex Cemeteries Book, Underlines
         Gloucester-Middlesex Connections, by Pat Royal Perkinson

  •   Special Memories of the Deal Family - Aunt Kate and Uncle Bunnie,
         by Betty Jean Dunston Deal

  •   Gloucester County Insolvents, 1783, Contributed by Dr. John S. Hopewell

  •   Additional Gloucester County Death Records, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Hodges Seamen of Mathews County, Virginia, by Marie Hodges

     Vol. 6, No. 1, June 2002, Theme: The Fields of Guinea  PDF Version    .....Out of Print

  •   My Four-B's of Guinea and Beyond, by Nan Belvin McComber

  •   My Ride Down Memory Lane in Guinea, by Paul Lafayette Brown

  •   Searching for Cemeteries of Guinea, by Harry Jordan

  •   Churches of Guinea, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Guinea Tidbits, by Paul Lafayette Brown

  •   William McKinley Smith, Waterman and Carver of Ducks, by Beth Maxwell

  •   Bronze Star for Heroism Awarded to Alfred V. Belvin, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Smith R. Carmine and William P. Oliver of Gloucester, by Sylvia Rowe

  •   The Thruston Family and the Tombstone Mystery, by David A. Brown and
         Thane H. Harpole

  •   High Tech Genealogy - Statistical Applications to DNA Analysis, by Wray Page

  •   Gloucester Militia Fines, 1851 - 1853, Contributed by Dr. John S. Hopewell

  •   Judge John Mumford Gregory, by Jeannie Stokes Howe

     Vol. 6, No. 2, December 2002, Theme: Guinea at Large!  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   C. B. Rowe & Son... Shop on the Corner at Bena, Virginia, by Judith Rowe Mays

  •   Wilbur Templeman's Barbershop, by Roger C. Davis

  •   From Bondage to Business: The Life of Beverly Jones, an African-American at
         Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia, by Debra Smith

  •   Plummer Family of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Robert W. Plummer

  •   Sears Family of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Robert W. Plummer

  •   A. C. Lamberth's CSA Marker Comes Home! by Robert W. Plummer

  •   History of Bellamy United Methodist Church, Submitted by Wyolene S. Pointer

  •   The Mystery of Gloucester Town: Discovering a Forgotten Virginia Town,
         by David A. Brown and Thane H. Harpole

  •   Elias Holder Grinnell of Mathews County, Virginia, by Prof. Jay Hoar
         as submitted by Hartley West

  •   Headstone of William Thornton, The Younger, by Robert M. Thornton

  •   The Grave of Mary Massey Sibley at New Hope Church, by Beth Maxwell

  •   Gloucester Courthouse Confederate Memorial - The Two Missing Men,
         by
    Robert W. Plummer

  •   Big Island, Gloucester County, Virginia, by Roger C. Davis

     Vol. 7, No. 1, June 2003, Theme: Stories of Mathews & Gloucester  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Founders of the Westville Christian Church of Mathews, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Eastville—Westville Mystery, Connections between Mathews/Gloucester & Northampton, by Gayle Mandell

  •   Brock’s Country Store—The Story Behind the Store, by Roger C. Davis

  •   Stories of Gloucester County Recalled, by Charles Kerns, Sr., by Roger C. Davis

  •   Finding Your Immigrant Ancestor’s Ship, by Cathy Williamson

  •   Old House People - A Poem, by Pat Royal Perkinson

  •   The Archaeological Quest for John Clayton, by Robert R. Harper

  •   Taliaferro Family of Gloucester County, Virginia, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Gloucester Mortality Schedule Taken with 1850 Census, submitted by Blondell Whiting

    Vol. 7, No. 2, December 2003, Theme: Great-Grandparents of Gloucester and Mathews  PDF Version  ORDER

  •   Great-Grandparents of
               Allen Randolf Cooke, by
               James Monroe Jones
               Lewis Roane Hunt
               Preston Brown
               John Frank Hartman
               Katherine Miller Hendrick
               Gordon Page Riley
               Hartley Edward West Sr.

  •   Gloucester Mortality Schedule Taken with 1860 Census, submitted by Blondell Whiting

  •   Jefferson Sinclair Selden Jr.

  •   Frances R. Haywood

  Vol. 8, No. 1, June 2004, Theme: 19th Century Activity  PDF Version   Out of Print

  •   The Gloucester Leg Stool, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Gifts From the Tailor, by Martha Eastwood Phillips

  •   Achilles Masonic Lodge, by Benjamin E. Borden, Jr., and Roger C. Davis

  •   Cap’n Jack and General Taliaferro Miss the Masonic Meeting, by Dr. John S. Hopewell

  •   The Nuttalls of Gloucester County, Virginia, by Malcolm Hudson South

  •   Sawmill Families—Photo Essay, by Roger C. Davis and L. Roane Hunt

  •   Census Record of 19th Century Lumber Business in Gloucester County, Virginia, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Post Civil War Development of the Wilson Creek Community of Gloucester County, Virginia, by L. Roane Hunt

  Vol. 8, No. 2, December 2004, Theme: Gloucester Fair Founders  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Marlfield, Home of the Sinclairs, by Caroline Baytop Sinclair

  •   Lands End, by Caroline Baytop Sinclair

  •   Hickory Fork House, by Roger C. Davis, Caroline Baytop Sinclair and Joseph J. Nicolson

  •   Woodville Plantation, compiled by Roger C. Davis

  •   Mrs. Sutton’s Crab Cakes, by Roger C. Davis and Beth Sutton Bunting

  •   Founders of the Gloucester Fair, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Botetourt Masonic Lodge No. 7, submitted by Betty Jean Deal

  •   Founders of the Gloucester Fair, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Warner Hall, by Thane Harpole

  •   The John Cary Lamberth Family of Gloucester, Virginia, by Robert W. Plummer

  •   Some Colonial Terminology Found in Legal and Public Records, submitted by Jennie Stokes Howe

  Vol. 9, No. 1, June 2005, Theme: Land Tax Records  PDF Version   Out of Print

  •   The Importance of the Hughes Letters, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Hughes Letters of the 1840s, Submitted by Caroline Bridges Morrison

  •   The Sears Family in Mathews County, Virginia, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Gloucester Taxes, by Robert W. Plummer

  •   Using Tax Lists for Lost Census Records, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   A Few Notes on Religious Freedom in Colonial Virginia, by Robert W. Plummer

  •   Henry Lewis Nuttall, His Family, and Grangewood, by Malcolm Hudson South

  •   My Experience on a Genealogy Search, by Frances J. Smith

  •   Looking for My Roanes, by Pat Royal Perkinson

  Vol. 9, No. 2, December 2005, Theme: Yorktown—Gloucester Ferry  PDF Version   .....Out of Print

  •   Capt. Bartholomew Gosnold Has Ties to Gloucester Area, by Jennie Stokes Howe

  •   History of The Gloucester - Yorktown Ferry System, by H. Leon Hicks and L. Roane Hunt

  •   Local Newspaper Articles Available on Microfilm, Gloucester-Mathews Gazette-Journal

  •   Will Ashe From A Small Beginning, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Images of Gloucester County - Photographic Essay, by David Girard

  •   A Genealogy for Harry Randolph Jordan, compiled by Harry R. Jordan

  •   African American Sailors in the Union Navy, submitted by Blondell Whiting

   Vol. 10, No. 1, June 2006, Theme: Gloucester Connections to Jamestown  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Gloucester Connections to Jamestown—Gary Ward to Peter Montague, by Roger C. Davis

  •   Gloucester Connections to Jamestown—Richard Mark Wiatt, Jr., to Edward Wiatt, by Roger C. Davis

  •   How Many Americans Can Claim Virginia Ancestors? Chances May Be Better Than You Think, by Minor T. Weisiger

  •   Who Knows Where Computers—and a Bit of Footwork—May Lead You? Texarkana Couple Discover Wealth of Virginia Ancestors, Interview with Preston and Mary Ann Philyaw, by Pat Royal Perkinson

  •   Lee House and Bellfield Plantation, Compiled by Roger C. Davis

  •   Jones of the Gloucester “Hall of Fame,” by James Jones and L. Roane Hunt

  •   My South Ancestors in America, by Malcolm Hudson South

  •   Trawler Crews for Chanco & Pauline M. Bolden, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Williams Family Cemetery, by William (Bill) Lindsay Lawrence

  •   Document from the home of Albert D. Mitchell—son of William Duval Mitchell and Frances Smither, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Genealogy of Dr. Walter Reed, by L. Roane Hunt

   Vol. 10, No. 2, October 2006, Theme: Gloucester Confederate Monument  PDF Version   .....Out of Print

  •   Names on the Gloucester Confederate Monument, by Robert W. Plummer

  •   Elmira Prison Revisited, by Cy Rilee

  •   Prayer, William E. Wiatt

   Vol. 10, No. 3, December 2006, Theme: West Point  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The Town of West Point, Virginia, by L. Roane Hunt and Lee Brown

  •   The Life and Times of George and Rebecca Emerson in Gloucester Count, by Robert Carol Emerson

  •   Gloucester Agricultural Association, Organized November 18, 1911, compiled by L. Roane Hunt

  •   Be Careful What You Google For, by Pat Royal Perkinson

  •   1924 Manuscript Finally Published, by Barbara Farner

 Vol. 11, No. 1, June 2007, Theme: Jamestown Celebration 2007  PDF Version   .....Out of Print

  •   John Page 1627-1693, By Page Laubach Warden

  •   John Page 1743-1808, By Cecil Wray Page, Jr.

  •   Autobiography of John Page, Submitted by Cecil Wray Page, Jr.

  •   Colonel John Page, By Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis

  •   Jamestowne Ancestors—400th Commemorative Edition, Submitted by Virginia Lee Hutcheson Davis

  •   The Early Willis Family in Gloucester, By Lee Brown

  •   Object of Colonial Governor’s Unrequited Love Lies at Rest in Old Middlesex Walled Cemetery, By Pat Royal Perkinson

  •   Mathews Connections, By Sara E. Lewis

  •   Steamship Wharves of the Mobjack Bay circa 1900, By Bill Lawrence

  Vol. 11, No. 2, December 2007, Theme: Tax Records  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Convenient Access to Gloucester County Records, by L. Roane Hunt

  •   What’s In Your Attic? By L. Roane Hunt and Lee Brown

  •   Andrew Jackson Andrews, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Crockett-Respess Family of the Chesapeake Bay, By L. Roane Hunt and James L. Braun, Jr.

  •   Paradise at the Northern Border of Gloucester County, Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Paradise Maps, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Ginny and Guinea Lore, By Roger C. Davis

  •   Vandegrift-Withers Marriage in Gloucester, Submitted by Page Warden

  Vol. 12, No. 1, June 2008, Theme: No Theme  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Robins Mill—Previously Dixons Mill, By Martha Robins Maclay

  •   Early Years of Boy Scout Troop 111 Gloucester County, Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Gloucester’s Man in Congress: S. O. Bland, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Hibble Family Bible Records, By Robert W. Plummer

  •   Davenport Founders of Morning Glory Baptist Church, Submitted by Calvin Davenport

  •   Uncovering Fairfield Plantation: Revealing a Forgotten Landscape, By Thane Harpole and David Brown

  •   The History of the Botetourt Hotel, By William L. Lawrence and L. Roane Hunt

  •   Robert Graham Wiatt 1884—1923, By Diane Wiatt Thompson

  •   Life On A Farm At Woods Cross Roads, By Rachael Burnette

  •   Cemetery Updates, By Robert W. Plummer
        EBENEZER CEMETERY
        SALEM CEMETERY
        OLIVE BRANCH CEMETERY

 Vol. 12, No. 2, December 2008, Theme: DNA in Genealogy  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Applying Genetic Genealogy to Family History Research, By Sara E. Lewis

  •   Two Examples of Using DNA Results in Genealogy, By William L. Lawrence

  •   Plummer DNA Genealogy Search, By Robert W. Plummer

  •   Timberneck Farm, By Benjamin Borden

  •   Eagle Scouts in Troop 111 before 1980, By Lee Brown

  •   Boy Scout Troop 111—1935-1943, Gloucester County, Virginia, By Lee Brown and L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Croswell Home on Carmines Island, By Lucy Forrest

  •   Merchants of Ware Neck Stores, By Lee Brown

  •   Old Books Available On Line, By Robert W. Plummer

 Vol. 13, No. 1, June 2009, Theme: Confederate Navy  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Commodore Thomas Jefferson Page, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Confederate Navy Service of Peter William Smith & George Washington Marquis Lafayette Smith, By Robert Hilton Lindsay, III

  •   Peter William Smith, Sr., By William L. Lawrence

  •   General William B. Taliaferro & Family, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Achilles School History, By Mrs. Milton T. Harris, Sr., Submitted by Lorrimer H. Hogge, Jr.

  •   We must correct our errors, Submitted by Sally Warthen

  •   John Junius Smith: In His Own Words, Submitted by Robert W. Smith

   Vol. 13, No. 2, December 2009, Theme: “Free” People of Colour  PDF Version   .....Out of Print

  •   Felix Rosa Rigau, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   “Free” People of Colour in Gloucester County, Virginia, By Edwin Washington, Jr., and L. Roane Hunt

  •   You Never Know, By Robert W. Plummer

  •   The “Friendship Bracelet,” By Betty Jean Deal

  •   Tucker Store Artifacts—Featured in Gloucester Museum of History, By Betty Jean Deal

  •   Gloucester Citizens Sign Petition, Submitted by Phyllis Rilee and L. Roane Hunt

  Vol. 14, No. 1, June 2010, Theme: Family Bible Records  PDF Version   Out of Print

  •   The Rev. Mr. James Maury Fontaine’s Bible, By L. Roane Hunt and Lee Brown

  •   The Abingdon Glebe—The Home of the Lamberth Family, By Margaret Lamberth

  •   Charles H. Blake, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   What Do I Remember?, By Rachel Foster Armistead

  •   Cecil Wray Page, Jr., Interviewed by Jessica Taylor

  •   How to Protect Your Research, By Robert W. Plummer

 Vol. 14, No. 2, December 2010, Theme: Hogg(e) Family DNA Results  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   “Reminiscence” of a High Private in the Rear Rank of the Confederate States Army, By James H. Fleming

  •   The DRIVER Family of Gloucester, Virginia, By Wayne Driver

  •   Hogg Family of Gloucester and York Counties, Virginia, By Henry Dwight Hogge, Ph.D.

  •   Letters Written to Mrs. Henry Hughes, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Family Mystery Solved in the Gloucester Citizens Petition to Amend Oyster Laws—December 22, 1847, By Phyllis Rilee

  •   1922 Botetourt High School Graduates

 Vol. 15, No. 1, June 2011, Theme: Robins Family  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   English Progenitors of the Robins Families of Early Colonial Virginia, By A. Warner Robins

  •   The Robins Family, By Robert W. Robins

  •   Claudius Foster Sutton Lighthouse Keeper at Page Rock, By Leca K. Sutton and L. Roane Hunt

  •   New Publications of Tax Records for Gloucester County, Virginia 1770-1820, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Bland Ancestry of Burton Major Bland—Letter to Dad, By J. Goodwin Bland

  •   Preparing For DAR Membership, By Frances Jarvis Smith

Vol. 15, No. 2, September 2011, Theme: Special Issue  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   People of Color Cited in Court Minutes of Gloucester County, Virginia, 1859-1867, By Edwin B. Washington

Vol. 15, No. 3, December 2011, Theme: Seawell's Ordinary & Big Island  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Seawell’s Ordinary—A Colonial Tavern, Race Track, Revolutionary War Site, and 20th-Century Roadside Restaurant, By Stephen Fonzo

  •   Washington Seawell, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   The History of a Book—From Essex, England to Hempstead, Long Island to Gloucester, Virginia, By John S. Maddaus

  •   The Gravestone of Edward Porteus, By Lee Brown

  •   Big Island History, By Mark Sutton 

  •   The Ferol Briggs Scrapbook of Gloucester and Mathews, By William L. Lawrence

  •   The Register of Abingdon Parish, By William L. Lawrence and L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 16, No. 1, June 2012, Theme: No Theme  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The 1940 Census, By Kathy Merithew and Lee Brown

  •   Dunston and Teagle Descendents of Thomas Evans, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Reverend Zachariah Taylor Whiting, By Barbara J. Ward Moody

  •   House and Yard Servants at Eagle Point—1845-1865, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Roads of Gloucester County 1866-1867, By William L. Lawrence

  •   Actions Recorded in Local Court Minutes of Gloucester County in Early 1861, By William L. Lawrence

  •   The Family of James Clack, By Lee Brown

  •   1796 Tax Related Documents for Gloucester County, Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt 

Vol. 16, No. 2, December 2012, Theme: Thornton and Hogg Families  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Gloucester, Virginia, Immigrant William Thornton’s 1622 Baptism in Lancashire, England, By Robert M. Thornton

  •   Who Was Lieut. Richard Hogg of the Virginia Navy of the Revolution?, By Dr. Henry Dwight Hogge, Ph.D. and Maryus Hogge

  •   Deans Family Terror in Civil War Raids, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Discovering Clues From The Crypt, By John F. Hartman

  •   Cemeteries of Gloucester County, Virginia, By William L. Lawrence

  •   Updates of Gloucester Cemeteries, By Robert W. Plummer
        EBENEZER CEMETERY
        SALEM CEMETERY
        OLIVE BRANCH CEMETERY

  •   We Are The Chosen , By Della M. Cumming

Vol. 17, No. 1, June 2013, Theme: Baptist Church and Fary Family  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Stories of the Fary Family, By Cecil C. Fary

  •   Insurance Photographs of Gloucester County School Buildings, Submitted by Lee Brown

  •   Finding William Southern, By Lee Brown

  •   Early Baptists in Gloucester County, Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Updates of Gloucester Cemeteries, By Robert W. Plummer
        BEULAH BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
        NEWINGTON BAPTIST CHURCH CEMETERY
       SINGLETON UNITED METHODIST CHURCH CEMETERY

Vol. 17, No. 2, December 2013, Theme: No Theme   PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Gloucester Hall , By A. J. Pate

  •   Free Negroes” and “Mulattoes” of Gloucester County and the Tidewater Area of Virginia Prior to 1800 , By Wayne K. Driver

  •   The 5th Virginia Cavalry During the Gettysburg Campaign, By Doug Fitchett

  •   John Clayton’s Home  By Wesley Greene, Introduction by Thane Harpole

  •   Alumni of Gloucester Public High Schools, 1909-1922, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Insurance Photographs of Gloucester County School Buildings, Submitted by Lee Brown

Vol. 18, No. 1, June 2014, Theme: Seawell, Doctor Garland, Browne, Roane   PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Virginia to California and Nevada: Tracking the Seawells of Gloucester and District of Columbia, By Sue Silver

  •   An African-American Family in Gloucester, Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt and Jessica Jordan

  •   The Special Marriage of Richard Roane and Elva Worrel, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Capt. Junius Brutus Browne, CSA, By Lee Brown

  •   Gloucester and Mathews Newspaper Articles Indexed, By Lee Brown

  •   Old Newspapers of Gloucester, VA—1869 – 1898, By William L. Lawrence

  •   1820 Gloucester Court Minutes, Submitted by William L. Lawrence

Vol. 18, No. 2, December 2014, Theme: Martin School, Dr. Edwards, Dr. Hogg   PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Dr. Richard Edwards of Waverley Highlands, By Lee Brown

  •   The Origins of Dr. Richard Edwards, By George T. Edwards, Jr.

  •   Looking for Dr. Richard Edwards, By Lee Brown and George T. Edwards, Jr.

  •   The Oldest Known Survey Plat in Gloucester County – A 1669 Plat of “Wareham,” By William L. Lawrence

  •   Students and Teachers of Martin School, Submitted by William T. Goode

  •   Martin School in Gloucester County, Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Pediatric Pioneer Dr. Paul Hogg and His Gloucester Roots, by Toni C. Hogg

  •   Alumni of Gloucester Public High Schools — 1923-1927, by L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 19, No. 1, June 2015, Theme: Woman's Club, 1928 Students, Hughes   PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The Gloucester Woman’s Club at the Edge Hill House, By William L. Lawrence and L. Roane Hunt

  •   Dan Gasby, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Remembering Blondell Whiting, By Barbara J. Ward-Moody

  •   Original Families of Spring Hill Baptist Church, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Henry Hughes, Surveyor of Gloucester County from 1831-1853, By William L. Lawrence

  •   1928 Students of Gloucester High Schools, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 19, No. 2, December 2015, Theme: Brown, Robins, Stokes, Ware Neck   PDF Version   Out of Print

  •   Brown and Related Families in Singleton Cemetery, By Lee Brown

  •   Ware Neck School, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   J. S. Robins Family Bible, By Lee Brown

  •   More Fun Climbing Stokes Family Trees, By Jennie Marshall (Stokes) Howe

  •   Formation of the Gloucester Genealogical Society, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 20, No. 1, June 2016, Theme: Olive Branch & Gloucester Schools   PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Olive Branch United Methodist Church, By Daniel Fary

  •   The Early Families of Olive Branch Methodist Church, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Genealogy Research around Gloucester County, By Lee Brown

  •   Gloucester Training School, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Botetourt High School—1946 Annual, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 20, No. 2, December 2016, Theme: Gloucester Point, Pocahontas, & Baseball   PDF Version   ORDER

  •   1925-26 Teachers of African American Public Schools, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   A History of Gloucester Point, VA From the 1920s to the 1950s, By William L. Lawrence and Elsa Verbyla

  •   Gloucester Baseball in the Late 1940s, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   More About the House and Yard Servants at Eagle Point Plantation, By Denise Jones and L. Roane Hunt

  •   How My Gloucester Roots Tie Me, a Member of the Kemp Family, to the Powhatan Nation, By James Monroe Jones and Family

  •   Remembering Carmen, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 21, No. 1, June 2017, Theme: Lewis "Cemetery, Mathews Men, & Kerns   PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The Mathews Men: The Book, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Lewis Family of the Poropotank and Warner Hall, By Lee Brown

  •   Preservation of the Lewis Cemetery, By Dr. Augustine W. Lewis

  •   Kerns Family of Gloucester, Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt and William L. Lawrence

  •   Important Records Beneath the Henhouse, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Mason’s Burying Ground , By Daniel Fary

Vol. 21, No. 2, December 2017, Theme: Pastor Deibert, Rev. Smith & Walker    PDF Version    ORDER

  •   The Reverend Armistead Smith, By Lee Brown

  •   Pastor C. W. Deibert, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   My Memories of a Wonderful Childhood, By Martha Estelle (Walker) Foster Daya

  •   The Marnix Family, By Lee Brown

  •   Cobbs Creek High School in Mathews Co., Virginia, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 22, No. 1, June 2018, Theme: Pat Shackelford, Lola Walker, & Bristow  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The Register of Abingdon and Ware Parishes, Gloucester, VA 1830 - 1916, Submitted by William L. Lawrence

  •   Roanes Wharf in Gloucester County, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Bristow Family of "Mulberry Hill," By L. Roane Hunt and Della Garrett

  •   The Dams of Francis Willis of White Hall, By William L. Lawrence

  •   Letter Box Memories, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Seaman Survives Torpedoed Tanker in 1942, By Hamilton and Lucy K. Williams

Vol. 22, No. 2, December 2018, Theme: AncestryDNA, Hazel Figg, Gwynn  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   My Matches from AncestryDNA By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Memories of Hazel Figg Hughes, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Former Student and Teacher At Achilles Recalls Old Days, By Mrs. Joel Thornton (Margaret Clarissa Richardson)

  •   Robert Henry Gwynn: An Ancestor at "Hellmira," By Robert N. Garnett

  •   Deadly Duels of Virginia, By Robert Burgess Hitchings

  •   Ebenezer Baptist Church, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 23, No. 1, June 2019, Theme: Roane Diary, Bridges, Deal  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The Deals: A Gloucester Family’s Civil War Story, By Robert N. Garnett II

  •   The Diary of Charles A. Roane, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Brown Family and Ebenezer Church, By Hazel Figg Hughes

  •   Newspaper Articles About Bridges in Gloucester, By Wilford Kale and Valerie Johnson

  •   1,600 Pounds Of Tobacco And A New Life In The Colonies, by Peter Scott Bridges

  •   Eighteenth Century News, Submitted By Robert Burgess Hitchin

Vol. 23, No. 2, December 2019, Theme: Mabel Oliver, Pics  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Memoirs of Mabel Oliver Bellwood, By William Turner Bryant, Submitted by Phyllis Rilee

  •   More School Pictures, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 24, No. 1, June 2020, Theme: Ebenezer Cemetery, Thomas Hogg  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Ebenezer Baptist Church Cemetery, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Thomas Hogg, Soldier of the Revolutionary War, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   1936 Gloucester High School Graduates, L. Roane Hunt

  •   Descendents of Augustine Warner, Famous Cousins of the Rochat Family, L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 24, No. 2, December 2020, Theme: Genealogy Surprises, AHS  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   The Genealogy of a Desk, By Sara Lewis

  •   Lieut. Richard Hogg, Jr.,  By Maryus Hogge and L. Roane Hunt

  •   What Happened to My Grandmother?, L. Roane Hunt and Sharon Denise Roane

  • Mary's Bible, By L. Roane Hunt

  • Achilles High School, By L. Roane Hunt

  • Tobin Cannery on the Piankatank River, by Betty Wrenn Day and L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 25, No. 1, June 2021, Theme: Rev. Bland, Spriggs, Corr  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Rev. Benny B. Bland, “45½ YEARS ACTIVE MINISTRY U.M.C..” By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Achilles Landmark Falls, By Paul L. Brown

  •   Georgia Louise SPRIGGS, A Graduate of Hampton Institute During - Its First 22 Years of Operation, Barbara J. Ward-Moody

  •   Petsworth Anglican (Episcopal) Church — A Mystery Partially Solved, By William L. Lawrence

  •   Some Funeral Records of Reverend Harry Lee Corr, By William L. Lawrence

  •   Notes on the Pointer Family of William Henry Thomas, by William H. Brackney, Ph.D.

 Vol. 25, No. 2, December 2021, Theme: Woods X Road, Davenport, Decker  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Evelyn McLelland Boschen Cousins, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   The Deckers: A Transition Story from Staten Island to Cappahosic in Gloucester County, By William H. Brackney, Ph.D.

  •   Williamson-Hunt Cousins Descended from James Killingham Horsley, By  L. Roane Hunt and W. Bland Williamson Jr.

  •   Davenport Family of Gloucester County, VA , By L. Roane Hunt and Calvin A. Davenport

  •   Lives from the Catlett Cemetery at Timberneck, By Sara Lewis

  •   Legal Documents Pertaining to Ancestry of the Cary Family of Gloucester County, by Allen Cooke

  •  A Survivor: Sarah Elizabeth Oliver White , by Alice Smith

  •  Margie Pitman Clements

Vol. 26, No. 1, June 2022, Hugh Billups, Old News, Borden  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Old News About Gloucester County, By L. Roane Hunt and Robert Hitchings

  •   Billups Family of Gloucester County, By L. Roane Hunt

  •   Lives from the Catlett Cemetery at Timberneck: Frances King Burwell Catlett, By Sara Lewis

  •   Ray Borden's Music , By L. Roane Hunt and Benjamin E. Borden

  •   Court Minutes of Gloucester County, By Alice Smith

  •   The Formation of Churches Following the Revolutionary War, by L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 26, No. 2, December 2022, 1948, Tidewater Telephone Company  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Tidewater Telephone Company, 1948 Telephone Directory, By L. Roane Hunt

Vol. 27, No. 1, June 2023,  Changing Times, BB Roane, Post Offices  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Basil Bernard Roane, By William L. Lawrence

  •   The Changing Times, By Kathryn Diggs Dawson

  •   Post Office Information for Gloucester County (1837-1950) Found in the National Archives, By William L. Lawrence

  •   Old Gloucester Survey Books Digitized, By William L. Lawrence

Vol. 27, No. 2, December 2023,  Bridges P.O., Dobson, Evans  PDF Version   ORDER

  •   Old Gloucester Survey Books Digitized (correction), By William L. Lawrence

  •   Timberneck Neighbors Found in the 1893 Bridges Post Office Application, William L. Lawrence

  •   Nellie Lee Evans Gregory (1866-1965, By Barbara J. Ward Moody

  •   Dobson Property Maps and Genealogy, By William L. Lawrence

  •   John Edward Dobson, By Frances Rowe Woods

  •   Civil War Veterans from Achilles and Bena, By Frances Rowe Woods

  •   Joan Crump Kanter

 

 

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