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Louisa County, Virginia
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This
site was created to provide information to assist researchers find
ancestors that may have links to Louisa County. Included within are
thousands of names taken from county records, information provided by other
Louisa researchers, lists of available resources, and links to sites
that have additional information. Come on in and have a look around. Changes Updated: August 30, 2008
Information on George R.
Thompson, his father, Archibald Wyatt Thompson of Louisa County, and
others was submitted by Ken Thompson. Thanks to the efforts of the Louisa County Historical Society, I
have now included almost 5,000 tombstone transcriptions from over 50
churches and family cemeteries in Louisa County. There is a master
index of all names, plus pages for each cemetery, both of which provide
a link to a photograph of the tombstone. Oakland Cemetery and
First Baptist Church still need to be transcribed, plus a few other
minor problems may exist.
Click here to see the index A new book "GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN", Louisa County Family Graveyards, Volume 1, is now available. It contains photographs, tombstone inscriptions, and locations of 215 family graveyards in Louisa county. The book is $30 plus $5 s&h, check payable and sent to Pat Baber, 1105 Bethany Church Road, Bumpass 23024. For more information contact Pat Baber pbaber@wildblue.net or Pattie Cooke ccooke2@verizon.net Click here to see the index Louisa County High School Students - 1945 including faculty and mentions men and women in Armed Forces A new book "THE GARTH FAMILY: Descendants of John Garth of Virginia, 1734-1986" is available from Rosalie E. Davis. Click here for details and ordering information. Index
to Deed Records 3,000 Deed Abstracts, with
over 18,000 Surnames Index to Slave Names About 1,000+ names so far. Bible Records and Cemeteries from the WPA Records. Submitted by Janice L. Abercrombie. A new book "Cohabitation Lists of Former Slaves in Goochland, Hanover and Louisa Counties, Virginia as recorded by the Freedmen's Bureau" is available. Click here for details and ordering information. The new
book, "Abstracts of Louisa County, Virginia Will Books
1743-1801", by Nancy Chappelear Baird and Kate Hatch, is
available for purchase from the Louisa County Historical Society for the
sum of $22.00 (+s/h). Click
here for their address. The Trevilian Station Battlefield Foundation website is now up and running. Click here to visit their site.
Click for instructions on subscribing and unsubscribing
The USGenWeb
Archives site is available now. Files on census records,
marriage bonds, cemetery lists, wills, etc. are being uploaded now. We are
accepting files to upload to the site. If you have transcribed primary
source documents and would like to contribute them to the project, please
send to Linda Lewis.
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Evolution of this website Way back in March/April of 1996 the GenWeb project was getting started. The goal was to have every county in every state hosted by a volunteer and they provide a website that would be available for researchers. Then in June of 1996, Linda Lewis, who was the state coordinator for Virginia, posted a message asking for volunteers for each of the counties in Virginia. At that time, only four counties were spoken for (Brunswick, Lee, Lunenburg, Scott & Russell). I quickly volunteered, and by July 10th, had obtained a website (www.trevilians.com) from a hosting company named Hiway Technologies, Inc in Florida. After I had the website, I fired off the following email to Linda: " I am eager to race off at full speed -- just don't know where to!!" How true!! Internet? webpages? HTML? sounds kinda like "Lions, Tigers and Bears! Oh My!" In one exchange, discussing how much space was needed, Linda replied "TWO MEGS is plenty. I have the VA page, all the VA counties that I coordinate, and another project totally unrelated to genealogy, on my one meg page with Compuserve". Hmmm, times have sure changed -- the Louisa site now takes up almost 700MB (as of December, 2007).
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