Page News & Courier
Heritage and Heraldry
Researching your family history may be just a web site away
Article of October 22, 1998
Since fall is well underway and the winter months lie just around the corner, journeying to the library to do genealogical research may be a bit hindered due to poor weather. Some may remember that earlier this year I wrote an article regarding genealogical research on the internet. Since that article in January, several new things have either been modified or have recently blossomed anew on the web.
The Genealogical Society of Page County site and the Page County Confederate Veterans web sites have not moved from their URL's. However, the Virginia Genealogical Web Project page for Page County (currently under revision) has a new site that can be reached at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1850/PageCoVaGenWeb.html. Now, for what is new on the web horizon . . . .
The Mt. View Research site - designed and maintained by Judy Campbell - is an INCREDIBLE new web site. Located at http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Valley/9793/, this site brings a veritable cornucopia of Page County genealogical items to your home. In addition to her personal genealogy profiles, Judy goes quite a few steps further and unleashes items that range from a biographical sketch of John Zirkle to marriage records and well beyond.
As a sneak peak, I will introduce a sampling of the Page County information sites she has placed on-line. The complete 1860 and 1870 census (arranged by House number); birth records from 1865-1885 (in alphabetical order by parents' surname); marriage records from 1831-1879 (in alpha order by groom as well as by bride); guardian bonds from 1850-1890; death records from records from 1864 - 1885; coroner's inquests; wills and list of heirs; divorce index from 1831-1923; and - my personal favorite for vital statistic finding - the cemetery index (which is listed in alphabetical order and makes research a snap).
In the event that your ancestor(s) might have crossed over from another county to Page or moved from Page to a bordering county, she has also placed various cemetery records for Frederick, Shenandoah, Rappahannock, Rockingham, and Warren County - as well as a few in West Virginia.
Overall, the Mt. View Research site in itself is all you need to kick-off your 1998-1999 research season. However, when combined with the other sites I have mentioned, all of the basic resources necessary for Page have been brought right to your home via computer monitor.
Other web sites worthy of mention for their detailed information include the Germanna Foundation site and the Broyles Family site. The reason that I mention these is due to the fact that several Page County families sprung forth from the Germanna "Colony." Both can be reached through: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~george/index.shtml.
Oh yes, and for your reading pleasure, in the event that you might have misplaced that issue of the Page News & Courier with the Heritage and Heraldry article that you meant to save - don't fret too much. In cooperation with the paper, I have placed an archive of the H & H articles on-line and will place future articles on-line approximately 30 days after their appearance in the paper. This web site can be found is available at: http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/1850/heritageandheraldry.html.
Finally, as October draws nigh, I would be curious to hear from readers regarding ghost stories involving different historic characters from Page County history. While not normally my "haunt", it would be interesting to "dig-up" (pun intended in both) whatever I could in order to find information relating to the historic episodes that surround such stories.
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