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Rappahannock Library has been adding to its collection of books relating to Virginia history, biography and genealogy, with a focus on local and area interests. Reflecting an increasing interest in these subjects nationwide, the staff is called upon to field many questions and requests for aid in research each month, and is seeking to build a basic collection that will be useful in providing this assistance.
Last week the Culpeper Minute Men Chapter, NSDAR, made an important and welcome contribution of books that will help in the search for ancestors who may have served in the Revolutionary War, both black and white, and from where they came. Titles included are: The DAR Patriot index, 3 volumes; Black Courage, 1775-1783; Index of Revolutionary War pension applications; Historical register of officers of the Continental Army. A fifth title, Kegley’s Virginia Frontier, is of interest to those tracing the growth and development of the Valley of Virginia.
Other donors have given such titles as 18th century perspective on Culpeper County, Rappahannock County Marriages, 1833-1850; Peter Exton’s Milestones into headstones and Brannon’s Organization of the Confederate Post Office Department, All contain much of interest to people seeking antecedents who lived in this area.
A bibliography of Virginia genealogy is a guide to resources in the University of Virginia Library. Other titles are guides to information available at the Virginia State Library. In Nugent’s Cavaliers and pioneers, of which we now have two volumes with a third on order, we find abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants and long lists of names, helping to locate persons in a definite locale.
Others in the group of books that help to place people who came to Virginia very early are Hamlin’s Virginia ancestors and adventurers, Greer's Early Virginia immigrants and Yoder’s Rhineland Immigrants. Hamlin’s They went that-away helps to trace the movements of people toward the South and West as f^ifti6rsapened.
A numbe^ of new titles are guides to research in the early records of Virginia settlers, especially of those to be found in Rappahannock’s parent counties — Essex, Orange, Spotsylvania, and Culpeper. Examples are Lost Virginia records, by Des Cognets; Marriages in Old Rappahannock and Essex
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