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This is the fourth volume of a four-volume set, which contains abstracts of the Loudoun County, Virginia Office Judgments Books for 1786-1847. This volume presents abstracts from two books: the first covers the period 1835-1842; the second covers the period 1842-1847. Entries may include: name of administrator, assignee, attorney, defendant, plaintiff, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or others; judgment, security, interest charged, and more. Debt cases "dominated civil court dockets throughout the colonial period." During this period, Virginia court clerks were required to keep judgment dockets, which recorded any amount of money rendered in his court, and as requested, any court within the Commonwealth or federal court; any judgment for money and the time from which it would bear interest; the specific amount; and, the names of creditors and debtors and their addresses (if known), etc. In order to endow credit agreements with greater security, the court was often used "as a rational mechanism to record debts." A full-name index adds to the value of this work. 2015, 5¿x8¿, paper, index, 352 pp.

his is the third volume of a four-volume set, which contains abstracts of the Loudoun County, Virginia Office Judgments Books for 1786-1847. This volume presents abstracts from two books: the first covers the period 1822-1827; the second covers the period 1827-1835. Entries may include: name of administrator, assignee, attorney, defendant, plaintiff, sheriff, deputy sheriff, or others; judgment, security, interest charged, and more. Debt cases "dominated civil court dockets throughout the colonial period." During this period, Virginia court clerks were required to keep judgment dockets, which recorded any amount of money rendered in his court, and as requested, any court within the Commonwealth or federal court; any judgment for money and the time from which it would bear interest; the specific amount; and, the names of creditors and debtors and their addresses (if known), etc. In order to endow credit agreements with greater security, the court was often used "as a rational mechanism to record debts." A full-name index adds to the value of this work. 2015, 5¿x8¿, paper, index, 344 pp.

Local newspapers furnish a wealth of genealogical data and often help fill in the gaps in official records. The names contained in this index, with genealogical data, are primarily residents of Sonoma County, but residents of the surrounding counties-Marin, Napa, Solano, Lake, and Mendocino-can also be found within these pages. Newspapers indexed include: Cloverdale Reveille, Daily Democrat, Daily Republican, Healdsburg Enterprise, Petaluma Courier, Petaluma Weekly Argus, Russian River Flag, Sonoma Democrat, Sonoma Index Tribune, Santa Rosa Republican, and Sonoma Weekly Index. This volume contains more than 13,000 entries in a table format. Entries include: surname, given name, type of entry (birth, death, marriage, probate, miscellaneous entries such as divorce records and entries gleaned from articles appearing in supplements to the newspaper), name of newspaper, date of article, page number, column number, and comments. Surname entries often include alternative spellings. Given Name entries may include the relationship to the individual listed. Comments furnish, as available, cemetery names, locations mentioned in an article, special circumstances, and other supplemental data. A list of Sonoma County cemeteries, a map of the county, and a list of Sonoma place names enhance this valuable resource

This volume lists about 17,000 husbands, many of whom married more than once. Some of the couples listed in this volume were wed before they came to Virginia/West Virginia or after removing to another state or territory. Entries are arranged alphabetically according to the name of the groom. When available the date and place of marriage is given; if unknown, the compiler has listed approximate dates and likely places of marriage. The guesstimates of dates and places not known for sure at least give the researcher a time and place in which to start searching. For each record a source is given; the sources are a combination of original and previously published material.

This book is a compilation of histories, township by township, of Geauga Co., Ohio, whose creation dates back to 1805, and whose settlement reaches even farther back, into the eighteenth century. The book opens with a general county history, which includes its establishment, geography, government, settlement, and just about every other conceivable aspect of its development and daily life. Transcriptions of historical speeches add to the flavor of the reading. Following this chapter are sections dealing with each of the county's sixteen townships, which are packed with details like those mentioned above, plus biographical sketches of notable citizens and local anecdotes.

This is the third volume of Tennessee deed book records abstracted and indexed by Mary Sue Smith. There are no Federal censuses in existence for Tennessee prior to 1820, with the exception of 1810 for Rutherford County. These Tennessee deed records are remarkably informative, often including full names, family relations, and more complete information on slave transactions, such as the full names and even maiden names of buyers, sellers, former owners and inheritors. In many cases, family migrations are noted providing additional geographic clues for directing further research. Ms. Smith has preserved the "feel" of the deeds by retaining the spelling and language peculiarities of the original documents, particularly in those entries that contain estate inventories. Entries are dated and arranged in the order that they were recorded in the deed book, with a citation to the original page where they can be found. Freemen are denoted in the index by an asterisk.