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Some Useful Resources

Genealogy Websites:

www.ancestry.com
www.rootsweb.com
www.findagrave.com

www.usgenweb.org
www.heritagequestonline.com
www.linkpendium.com
www.newspapers.com
​www.usgwarchives.net

​www.glorecords.blm.gov
www.familysearch.org
www.archive.org
www.archives.com
www.familytreedna.com
www.ysearch.org
www.americanancestors.org

www.myheritage.com


Howard and Related Families:

Historical Southern Families, by John Bennett Boddie, 1969.  Now available through Genealogical Publishing Company.  Especially look at Volume XIII.            Howard, Avery, Breed

History and Genealogies of the Families of Miller, Woods, Harris, Wallace, Maupin, Oldham, Kavanaugh, and Brown by W. H. Miller, 1907, reprinted by Higginson Book Company (www.higginsonbooks.com).

The German Element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia by John Walter Wayland.      Hite, Stephens, Chrisman

From the Rhine to the Shenandoah, Volume III by Daniel W Bly.       Hite, Stephens, Chrisman


Peter Stephens and Some of His Descendants, 1690-1935 by Dan Voorhees Stephens and Clarence Ellsworth.

The Stephens Family, With Collateral Branches: Giving the Genealogy and History of Some American Families, Tracing Their Ancestry to Ante-Revolutionary Times by Edward Stephens Clark.  Two Volumes.

German Origins of Jost Hite, Virginia Pioneer 1685-1761 by Henry Z Jones Jr, Ralph Conner, and Klaus Wust

The Howard Historian (www.thehowardhistorian.com)

Howard-Wright and Allied Families, by Marilee Howard Cory

Wills and Administrations of Elizabeth City County Virginia 1688-1800, by Blanche Adams Chapman

Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, by Nell Marion Nugent

 http://www.johnrobertsonfamily.com/  John Madison Robertson

 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=mchaffie&id=I1706  Obadiah Howard

 http://books.google.com/books?id=0jZVAAAAMAAJ&ie=ISO-8859-1  Stephens

 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=SHOW&db=cooperco      Cooper County MO biographies

 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fcharper/theory.html      Howard

 http://varoots.tripod.com/stephens/  Stephens, Chrisman

 http://www.mogenweb.org/cooper/Families/Descendants_of_Stephen_Cole_Part_1.pdf

 
http://homepages.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~ruthhall/Stephens/Stephens.html   re Descendants of Hans Peter Steffen


​Bratton and Related Families:

Ancestry and Descendants of the Nassau-Siegen Immigrants to Virginia 1714-1750, B. C. Holtzclaw, 1964.  Published by The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia (Germanna Record, No. Five).

Second Germanna Colony and Other Pioneers, John Blakenship, 2008.  Published by The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia (Germanna Record, No. Eighteen).

​Greenbrier Co. W. Va. Court Orders 1780-1850, by Helen S. Stinson

http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=jkmajor&id=I3206  Bratton, Chapman

 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=6171967&I11.x=36&I11.y=3  Kabler


Elwell and Related Families:

The Elwell Family, Seventeenth and Eighteenth Centuries, Southern New Jersey by Elmer Garfield Van Name, 1963.

Elwelliana: Memorabilia of Levi Henry Elwell, 1854-1916 by Elizabeth Starr Versailles, 1974.

Penelope, A Novel of New Amsterdam, by Jim McFarlane, 2012, Twisted Cedar Press.  Also see www.jim-mcfarlane.com.

http://freepages.family.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~mygermanfamilies/ThornWaltPa.html  Thornburg, Beeson

 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?db=bstout2&id=I32343  Richard Stout

 http://darefamily.com/  Elwell, Sheppard

 http://www.lanepl.org/scanned/indian%20creek/indian%20creek%2024-35.pdf  Brady

 http://www.schenectadyhistory.org/families/hmgfm/stout.html  Stout

 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=lgentry7&id=I81  McClure, Eads

 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~smith/  Chapman, Spradling

Ball and Related Families:

The Ancestors and Descendants of Reuben Ball, by Dr. Ronald Ames Hill, 2007, Chaghill Publications.

The Ball Family of Carter's Run, by James D. Hill (http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~jdball/)

http://www.claypoolefamily.com/  Claypoole

 http://www.pipeline.com/~richardpence/index.htm#gen  Pence

 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=clane&id=I1759  Crum

 http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:3261711&id=I81647  Turner, Hickman