Directory of Family Associations


Book Description

This directory of family associations, based largely on data received in response to questionnaires sent to family associations, reunion committees, and one-name societies, offers contact information on some 6,000 family associations in the US. The directory is useful for those engaging in genealogical research or planning family reunions. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR




Pioneers and Their Homes on Upper Kanawha


Book Description

The first Englishman to explore the Kanawha Valley was Captain Thomas Batts of Virginia, who went so far west as the Falls in 1671, but permanent settlement did not begin until just over 100 years later. This history deals primarily with the upper valley from its origin near Gauley Bridge west past Charleston to Davis Creek. It provides a wealth of historical and genealogical information on dozens of early families, and is very attractively illustrated with over a dozen drawings. An appendix gives additional genealogies, and military and other lists. A bibliography and a full-name index complete this work.










Pioneer Settlers of Grayson County, Virginia


Book Description

Grayson County is famous in southwestern Virginia as the cradle of the New River settlements--perhaps the first settlements beyond the Alleghanies. The Nuckolls book is equally famous for its genealogies of the pioneer settlers of the county, which, typically, provide the names of the progenitors of the Grayson County line and their dates and places of migration and settlement, and then, in fluid progression, the names of all offspring in the direct and sometimes collateral lines of descent. Altogether somewhere in the neighborhood of 4,000 persons are named in the genealogies and indexed for ready reference.




Lewis of Warner Hall


Book Description

"According to tradition the Lewis family of 'Warner Hall' is descended from the emigrant Robert Lewis, who came [from England] to Virginia in 1635." Descendants lived throughout the United States.