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

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An encyclopedia of Tennessee genealogy, Acklen's Bible Records and Marriage Bonds is one of the foremost Tennessee source-books in print. It consists almost entirely of records of births, marriages, and deaths, plus marriage licenses of Dickson, Knox, Lebanon, and Wilson counties. Sections devoted exclusively to marriages generally run chronologically, giving exact dates and full names of brides and grooms. The bible records, however, offer the most substantial evidence of family connections and, in the manner of such records, are actually organic family records listing names and dates of birth, marriage, and death through several generations, depending, of course, on the extent to which a particular bible was handed on in the family and kept up to date. The work is complemented by a surname index of nearly 15,000 entries.

Tennessee Records: Bible Records and Marriage Bonds

Biographies & Memoirs

Acklen, Jeannette Tillotson

Historical

This is an exhaustive cemetery-by-cemetery listing of Tennessee mortuary inscriptions, with a separate section of over 100 pages devoted to biographical and historical sketches.

Tennessee Records: Tombstone Inscriptions and Manuscripts (#22)

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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: An Analysis of National Origins of the Population

History

American Council of Learned Societies

Americas

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

Bailey, Frederic W.

This is the most complete collection of early Massachusetts marriages ever published, containing over 20,000 entries for the period 1643-1800. The marriages derive from records kept by the various county, city, and court clerks in compliance with Massachusetts law and give the full name of the bride and groom and date and place of marriage. The book is divided into four sections, and each section of the book is separately paginated and indexed, except for the last, which is arranged in chronological order.

Early Massachusetts Marriages Prior to 1800 3 vols. in 1 [Bound With] Plymouth (#235)

This "Dictionary" comprises genealogical records of nearly 3,000 emigrants, giving their English homes, names of ships in which they sailed, towns in which they settled in New England, and references to the printed or manuscript sources from which the information derived. In collecting data for this work, Col. Banks made seven visits to England, searching the records of nearly 2,000 parishes in order to connect the New England immigrants with their native parishes. Additional information is provided in a series of indexes: Index to Emigrants to New England; Index of the Wives and Children of the Emigrants; Index of Parishes; Index of Ships; and Index of Towns in New England.

Topographical Dictionary of 2885 English Emigrants to New England, 1620-1650

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.

Dictionary of English and Welsh Surnames, with Special American Instances

Bardsley, Charles Wareing Endell

This register is unique in that it is the only existing complete parish register for the section of Virginia south of the James River extending from Brunswick to Princess Anne counties. It is alphabetically arranged by family name and includes names, dates of births, and less frequently, deaths, names of parents, and the names of all sponsors at christenings (those who were godparents, usually being relatives). There is a separate index to sponsors, which, when calculated with the main entries in the text, pushes the total number of persons named to approximately 11,000.

The Albemarle Parish Register of Surry and Sussex Counties, Virginia : Births, Deaths and Sponsors, 1717-1778

Boddie, Mrs. John Bennett

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