Fauquier County was erected in 1759 from Prince William County. Like other counties in the northern section of the state, its records are the object of considerable genealogical interest, especially the early wills, which abound with useful data. This volume consists of  abstracts of wills, inventories, and accounts for Fauquier for the period 1759-1800. In the instance of wills the abstracts provide the name of the testator, dates of recording and probate, names of heirs, a description of the bequest, names of witnesses, and a reference to the page and the book number in which the original will is recorded. The inventories and accounts contain information customarily found in such records--names of appraisers, executors, and administrators, with the dates of the various instrument.

Abstracts of Fauquier County, Virginia Wills, Inventories & Accounts, 1759-1800

Genealogical Publishing Company

In 1818, a census was authorized by the government of the Alabama Territory for its twenty-nine counties in 1820. The federal census of 1820 for Alabama was completely destroyed by fire, but the returns for eight of the twenty-nine counties are on file in the Alabama State Archives. This publication, then, which is based on the information found in the Archives, sets forth the only extant record of the 1820 Census. It contains the returns for the counties of Baldwin, Conecuh, Dallas, Franklin, Limestone, St. Clair, Shelby, and Wilcox. Altogether about 4,000 heads of families are listed by county. Included with each entry is a tabular form indicating the number of persons in each family, their sex, approximate age, and color.

Alabama Census Returns 1820

History

Americas

This work lists and classifies thousands of surnames according to the several states in which they were found in 1790, thus enabling researchers to narrow their search to a particular area. English, Scottish, Celtic Irish, Ulster Irish, German, Dutch, French, and Swedish names predominate.

Surnames in the United States Census of 1790

American Council of Learned Societies

A basic genealogical reference work on Kentucky, this valuable book contains abstracts of courthouse records for the Kentucky counties of Barren, Bath, Bourbon, Clark, Davies, Fayette, Harrison, Jessamine, Lincoln, Madison, Mason, Montgomery, Nelson, Nicholas, Ohio, Scott, and Shelby. In addition, there is an index to estates and inventories of Revolutionary soldiers. The period of coverage runs roughly from 1725 to 1875, thus embracing the most important period in Kentucky's history. The exhaustive abstracts of wills and lists of marriages, Bible records, and tombstone inscriptions, covering several thousand early Kentuckians, are arranged, for the most part, alphabetically under section headings.

Kentucky Court and Other Records Volume I: Early Wills and Marriages, Old

Ardery, Mrs. William Breckenridge

An extensive work, this is based on original records, mainly of the Congregational and Episcopal churches of the period 1651-1800. About 30,000 marriages are recorded, arranged by town and thereunder by church, and they give the full names of the brides and grooms, and the marriage dates. Each of the seven volumes is indexed.

Early Connecticut Marriages as Found on Ancient Church Records Prior to 1800 [Seven Books in One Volume]

Bailey, Frederic W.

Scrupulous in every detail, this work contains the names of 3,600 passengers on the ninety-six ships which brought them to New England between 1620 and 1640. Working with the same records employed by Savage, Drake, and Hotten, and with records unknown or inaccessible to them, Colonel Banks here pulls the several classes of records together to form the most complete and authoritative collection of passenger lists for the period ever published. In addition to the names of passengers and ships, places of origin, and places of residence in America, the book includes indexes to surnames, ships, English parishes, and New England towns.

The Planters of the Commonwealth. A Study of the Emigrants and Emigration in Colonial Times to Which Are Added Lists of Passengers to Boston and to ... Their Settlement in Massachusetts, 1620-1640

Banks, Charles Edward

This book consists of a dictionary of about 8,000 British surnames, with such information as nationality, origin or etymology and, in some instances, references to sources such as Domesday Book, The Roll of Battle Abbey, etc. Barber also frequently cites the place of origin most commonly associated with the surname.

British Family Names : Their Origin and Meaning

Henry Barber

Facsimle reprint. Originally published: London, 1901.

A Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances

Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell

Here is a guide to printed British genealogies, containing over 16,000 references to pedigrees in county histories, compendia, record and society publications, heralds' visitations, etc., down to the time the work was originally published (1867). The arrangement is by counties for England and thereunder alphabetically by family name for each title analyzed, with special sections devoted to General Works, Visitations, etc. The compiler has facilitated research still further by means of a complete index to all families, which occupies nearly 100 pages and contains about 8,000 entries.

Index to Printed Pedigrees

Bridger, Charles

Carrie Broughton's collections of North Carolina marriage and death records were transcribed from the weekly newspaper the Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, founded in 1799 as the Raleigh Register and North Carolina Weekly Advertiser. Our reprint editions are excerpted from the following publications of the North Carolina State Library: the Biennial Reports of 1942-1944 and 1947. The first volume in the series (1799-1825) contains over 5,000 entries, with approximately two-thirds devoted to marriages and the balance to deaths. Marriages are arranged in alphabetical order by year, showing the names of both bride and groom, place of marriage, the name of the newspaper, and the date of publication. Deaths are also arranged in alphabetical order by year, giving the name of the decedent, date of death, place of residence, and the name and date of the newspaper.

Marriage and Death Notices from "Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette," 1799-1825

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