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Aug. 21, 2012 An image of the bond for the marriage of John Parker and Elizabeth Carrell has been added.
   
July 15, 2012 An Erwin Report has been added, and a couple of Erwin documents added.
   
Aug. 4, 2011 The Parker Report has been updated.
   
Jan. 24, 2010 The Anglin Report has been updated.
   
May 3, 2008 Updated the Parker Report. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Parker."
   
April 15, 2008 Added Adrian Anglin's Petition for his Freedom. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Anglin."
   
Feb. 8, 2008 Added Adrian Anglin's Will and the Inventory and Appraisement of his estate. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Anglin."
   
Sept. 13, 2006 Updated the Langston page to report a big breakthrough, thanks to DNA testing. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Langston."
   
July 10, 2006 Updated the Anglin page. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Anglin."
   
Dec. 8, 2005 Added a photograph of the old gravestone our immigrant ancestor, George Boyd, and his son and grandson. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Boyd." Also upgraded the Brinkey page and added a link on the Anglin page to the new Anglin surname Y DNA Project
   
March 1, 2005 Added information about Joseph Brinkey's family. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Bringia • Brinkey."
   
December 21, 2003 Added information and a photograph of Andreas Pfeffer's gravestone to the Pfeffer Report. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Pfeffer."
   
November 29, 2003 Added information to the Wernet Report. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Wernet."
   
November 21, 2003 Made corrections and added information to the Anglin Report. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left, and then click on "Anglin."
   
November 11, 2003 Added a transcription and an image of a 1780 land grant to Adam Bible. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
August 11, 2003 Added a map of the Rhine area showing where all of our known ancestors from Continental Europe lived. Look in "Maps" in the directory on the left.
   
June 6, 2003 Added an image, transcript, and translation of the record of the 1766 marriage of Otto Rudolph Crecelius and Maria Elisabeth Diederle. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
May 21, 2003 Added a new page with a map showing where our Crecelius ancestors lived in Germany from 1452 to 1764, and a table showing which family events took place in each village mentioned. There is a link to it in the Crecelius report in "Surnames" in the directory on the left.
   
April 30, 2003 Added transcript and image of a 1791 land grant to Thomas Cade. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
March 25, 2003 Added explanation and evidence as to revolutionary service vel non of Rudolph Crecelius. Look in "American Revolution" in the directory on the left.
   
December 29, 2002 Added an image, transcript, and translation of an 1843 extract from the church records from Wolschwiller in the Upper Rhein, Alsace, relating to the Brinkey (Bringia) family. It can be found in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
December 11, 2002 Added a page with maps showing where Anglins were in Virginia in the 1700's. It can be accessed from the Anglin page which can be found in "Surnames" in the directory on the left.
   
November 15, 2002 Added transcription and image of a 1726 land patent to Edward Hawkins. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 13, 2002 Added transcription and image of a 1705 headright granted for transportation of William Anglin and others. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 11, 2002 Added transcriptions and images of a 1661 land patent issued to Johanna Yates and a 1706 land patent issued to Thomas Cherry. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 10, 2002 Added transcriptions and images of a 1648 land patent issued to John Manning, 1653 land patent issued to Edward Brown and a 1682 land patent issued to John Cherry. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 9, 2002 Added transcription and image of land patent issued to Edward Creekmore in 1715. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 8, 2002 Added transcription and image of land patent issued to George Ballentine in 1686. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 7, 2002 Added transcription and image of land patent issued to John Brown, Jr. and John Manning in 1758. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 2, 2002 Added transcription and image of land patent issued to Edward Brown in 1684. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
November 1, 2002 Added transcriptions and images of land patents issued to various William Anglins in 1726, 1734, and 1786. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
October 31, 2002 Added a transcriptions of another 1638 land patent to John Yates and images of two patents issued to him the same day. Added transcript and image of a 1758 land patent to John Brown. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
October 30, 2002 Added transcriptions and images of a 1652 land patent to Joan Yates. Look in "Documents" in the directory on the left.
   
October 29, 2002 Added a transcription and images of a 1746 land patent to Adrian Anglin from King George II. Also added image of the 1760 patent to Adrian Anglin and Henry Hambleton. Added a transcription and images of a 1785 land grant to Isaac Anglin. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
October 23, 2002 Added a transcription of a 1760 land patent to Adrian Anglin and Henry Hambleton. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
October 13, 2002 Added a transcription of a 1638 land patent to John Yates. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
September 5, 2002 Added some questions concerning the military service of Otto Rudolph Crecelius during the American Revolution. Look in "American Revolution" in the directory on the left.
   
July 30, 2002 Added a photocopy and a transcription of Isaac Anglin's discharge from the Continental Army and a brief description of his service. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
January 4, 2002 Added a transcription of the 1683 Deed by Ann Manning Batchelor to John Nichols in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
December 15, 2001 Added a transcription of the 1717 Deed by Edward Creekmore to William Clogston in Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
December 14, 2001 Added transcriptions of the 1711 Lease by George & Susanna Ballentine to Henry Deale, Jr. and the 1715 will of John Manning; all of Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
December 13, 2001 Added transcriptions of a 1725 Lease and a 1725 Deed from James Batchelor to Joseph Batchelor; and the 1750 will of David Ballentine; all of Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
December 12, 2001 Added transcriptions of the 1678 will of Richard Yates and the 1734 will of Joseph Batchelor, both of Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
December 9, 2001 Added a transcription of the 1702 will of George Ballentine in Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
November 27, 2001 Added a transcription of the 1678 deed from Edward Brown to his daughter Mary Bigg in Lower Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
August 9, 2001 On the Crecelius surname page, added a link to Marcus Krekel's web site with beautiful photographs of our ancestral village.
   
July 14, 2001 Added family trees. Look in the directory on the left.
   
July 5, 2001 Added transcriptions of a 1695 deed of Edward Brown and a 1722 deed to Thomas Cherry, both of Norfolk County, Virginia. Look in "Document Transcriptions" in the directory on the left.
   
July 5, 2001 Added a little more history on the Stundwiller page, along with a map of Northern Alsace. Look in "Places in Time" in the directory on the left.
   
July 3, 2001 Additions to the Caspar page. Look in "Surnames" in the directory on the left.
   
July 2, 2001 Added a page with photographs and history for Stundwiller and the neighboring villages (home to our Casper ancestors). Look in "Places in Time" in the directory on the left.
   
June 19, 2001 Added a table to help people determine which ancestors we have in common. Just click on "Which Ancestors are Yours" in the directory on the left.
   
June 13, 2001 Added a Davis page, featuring Billie Davis, the famous one-armed sheriff of Whitley County. Also made corrections and additions to the Parker page. Look in "Surnames."
   
May 29, 2001 A transcription of George Ballentine's Will, dated 1733. Look in "Document Transcriptions."
   
May 27, 2001 Transcriptions of John Biggs's Will dated 1696, Joan Yates's Will dated 1663, a deed from Richard Yates to John Cherry dated 1665, and a deed from Robert Creekmore dated 1786. Look in "Document Transcriptions."
   
May 15, 2001 A transcription of Thomas Cherry's Will, dated 1748. Look in "Document Transcriptions."
   
May 1, 2001 A transcription of James Boyd's Will, dated 1786. Look in "Document Transcriptions."
   
April 10, 2001 A transcription of a deed executed by Major & Hannah Cade in 1786. Look in "Document Transcriptions."
   
March 25, 2001 Added a little to the Anglin page in "Surnames."
   
March 8, 2001 Education in Colonial Virginia. In "Places in Time," choose "Norfolk, Virginia."
   
March 3, 2001 I added some links at the bottom of the Bible family page, including links to photographs taken in the ancestral villages of the Bibles in Alsace. On the "Surnames" page, just click on "Bible."
   
March 1, 2001 Witch Trials in Virginia. To reach it, look on the Norfolk County, Virginia, page in "Places in Time."
   
March 1, 2001 A letter written in 1649 by a father in London to his daughter, who is a servant in Virginia. To reach it, look on the Norfolk County, Virginia, page in "Places in Time."
   
February 20, 2001 My research notes on the Cherry families of Norfolk County, Virginia, from 1671 to 1814. To reach it, click in the place indicated at the bottom of the Cherry page under "Surnames."
   
February 8, 2001 A page on punishment of bad manner and bad morals in Norfolk, Virginia, from 1646 to 1651. Look in "Places in Time," and click on "Norfolk County, Virginia."
   
October 31, 2000 A page on the Western Waters in present West Virginia, home of our Anglin and Cade ancestors were there. Look in "Places in Time."
   
October 29, 2000 Mary Kinnan's Account of an Indian Attack on her Family, her Captivity, and her Deliverance. The attack took place in the Tygart River Valley in 1791 when our Anglin and Cade ancestors were there. Look in "Historical Narratives."
   
  Langston family page. Look in "Surnames."
   
October 25, 2000 Photograph of Mortimer Cade on the Cade family page. Look in "Surnames," then "Cade."
   
October 23, 2000 Page for the Cade family. Look in "Surnames."
   
October 23, 2000 Photograph of Bishop Francis Asbury. Under "Historical Narratives," click on "Bishop Asbury Visits Will Anglin's Inn."
   
October 12, 2000 Page for the Pfeffer family with a photograph of Horb am Neckar, the village they came from. Look in "Surnames."
   
October 11, 2000 Page for Schuttertal in the Black Forest with photographs and history. Look in "Places in Time."
   
October 4, 2000 Photograph of Anna Osborne Campbell's gravestone on the Campbell page in "Surnames."
   
October 1, 2000 Reports from the Official Record concerning the engagement in which Morris Brinkey was captured in the Civil War. Find it under "Civil War."