Virginia Room of the Roanoke City Library, Roanoke, Virginia

ISSN 0739-3482 SPRING 2003 - Roanoke C ity ~ub~c Ubr"orv . V irgin;a Room Virginia Appalachian Notes Danville• Southwestern Virginia Genealogical Society Roanoke, Virginia SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY lNC Calendar Y car 2003 Officers and Executive Board Area Code 540 President Karen Kappesser 977-0067 Vice-President Gene Swartzell 890-3991 Record Secretary Fred Anderson 774-7521 Corresponding Secretary Micki Prescott 985-0751 Treasurer Winfred H. Hart 774-2658 Membership Jim Nelson 725-5303 VAN Editor **Vacant** Immediate Past President Gene Swartzell 890-3991 VAN Editor Emeritus Babe Fowler 345-8709 Committees Computer/Labeler Don Vaughan 989-8645 Program Gene Swartzell 890-3991 Historian Babe Fowler 345-8709 Publications Karen Kappesser 977-0067 Don Martindale 366-0829 Babe Fowler 345-8709 Exchange Quarterlies Karen Kappesser 977-0067 Pedigree Charts **Vacant** Parliamentarian **Vacant** Publicity Karen Kappesser 977-0067 Book Reviews **Vacant** The SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY. INC. is a tax-exempt corporation under section 501(c)(3) of the Federal Income Tax Code. Section 170 of the Tax Code provides for the treatment of contributions to the SVGS as a deductible contribution by the donor. Bequests, legacies, devises, transfers, or gifts to the SVGS may be deductible for Federal estate gift tax purposes, if they meet the applicable provisions of sections 2055, 23106, and 2522 of the Tax Code. MEMBERSHIP: Each SVGS member will be mailed a copy of the "Society's" quarterly, the Vffi.GINIA APPALAClllAN NOTES (VAN). The VAN is usually published quarterly. The annual index will be included in the Fall issue of the VAN for that year. Society memberships are on a calendar year basis and those memberships, which are not renewed by January 30, will be deemed as inactive and removed from the VAN mailing list. Single or family memberships are $20.00~ Organization and Library memberships are $15.00. Members with mailing addresses outside the United States shall add $10.00 to the above fees and all monies are payable in U.S. currency. All payments should be made by check or money order, payable to: Southwestern Virginia Genealogical Society, Inc. or to SVGS, Inc. and mailed to Post Office Box 12485, Roanoke, VA 24026-2485. BACK ISSUES of the VAN: 1995 and earlier, are available at a reimbursement cost of $4.00 each, as long as the supply lasts. More recent issues are $6.00 each. These prices include postage. Mailed to Virginia addresses please add 4.5% sales tax. A bulk mailing of old V ANs to one address may be eligible for a discount. All payments should be made by check or money order, payable to SVGS and mailed to: SVGS, c/o D. Martindale, 250 Preston Ave. NE, Roanoke, VA 24012-3012 BOOKS for REVIEW: Books submitted to the Society will be reviewed and the review printed in a subsequent issue of the VAN. When submitting a book, please include the price of the book, copies of the available advertising material, and information as to where orders for additional copies may be placed. Following their review, all books will be placed in the Virginia Room of the Roanoke City Library, Roanoke, Virginia. VIRGINIA APPLACHIAN NOTES Published Quarterly By SOUTHWESTERN VIRGINIA GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY, INC. Vol. 27 - No. 2 - Spring 2003 (April, May, June) CONTENTS Mark Your Calendar! 51 Family Bibles Rich Resource For Name Connections by Elaine Powers 52 Mortality and Agriculture Schedules by G. Swartzell 54 Help Identifying Old Photos 57 The Care and Feeding of a Pedigree Chart by Elaine Powers 63 Partial Muster of Botetourt County Militia on Aug 31, 1782 Sow·ce: Charles T. 66 Burton, transcribed by Carol L. Milbourn Books Reviews 82 On the Trail of the Dickersons of Virginia and Indiana by Marilynn Dickerson 84 Nicknames List 86 Mormon Family History, A Resource for All by Elaine Powers 88 Family Reunions and Queries 90 Tips to Help You Get Over the Brick Wall by Liz Lieber, Genealogy.com 91 Correction: Ann Bailey writes that the directions given in the Winter 2003 VAN to The Central Cemetery in Radford, VA a.re incorrect. The cemetery is located on Six.th Ave, Lawrence Street and Foutih Ave. Southwestern 'Vi1gin ia § enea!ogical Society, :Inc. p 0. BOY 12485 Roan oke. Virginia 2 4026 Dear Fellow Members, Spring has ar~ived. It's time to put thin~s from the past winter in .orde r as a start to "spring cleaning". This goes for you genealogical r~search too. I say this because of something that happened to me recently. I placed a query 1n my hometown newspape r in an effort to connect one of my surnames to a local Civil War hero. I feel that all the G O ETTELs in Syracuse NY are connected but I don't know how. I received an answer straight away from a person wh~ had done some research on the surname. Of course he asked me a lot of questions and in some cases I could not provide the answer because my notes were in terrible shape. VERY embarrassing!! The connection still hasn't been ma_de. The moral of this tail is; just as you straighten and clean up your house, do the same with your family history research. Thank you to member Marilynn Dickers?n for the ~rticle she submitted for this issue. Also to Gene Swartzell for typing up the mortality an_d agncultu~e schedules. We are running out of material for The VAN. Without items to publish there will be no VAN. Please consider sending something for publication. In this issue the society is ~nnouncing ~ special event plan~e.d for O?tober. October is Family History Month and the society, along wrth several other partrc1pants, 1s sponsoring a family history day Saturday, October 18th. Please see the announcement in this issue for more details. This will be my last year as society president. ~yself and ~everal other officers have served longer then we planned to. In order for the sC?crety to cont1~ue .we need people willing to stand for office this November. In September we will_ form a n?!11 1nating committee to seek candidates. Please give some thought to holding a positron. If you are interested, please contact me or one of the other officers. Finally, as of May 1 sth my e-mail address has changed. I have noted the new address below my signature. Happy Hunting, Kevc~ 14~u~ Karen Kappesser, President 514 Scalybark Drive Blue Ridge VA 24064-1328 Telephone: (540) 977-0067 E-mail: [email protected] VIRGINIA APPALP\CH\AN NOTES 51 MARK YOU CALENDAR! The date is October 18, 2003. The event is a Family History Celebration sponsored by the Roanoke City Library, the Virginia Room and the Southwestern Virginia Genealogical Society, Inc., in association with the History Museum and Historical Society of Western Virginia. The full day celebration will begin with Rebecca Warlow, Archive Specialist with the National Archives, Mid-Atlantic Region presenting two programs. Carol Tuckwiller, retired Virginia Room Librarian and now Director ofResearch and Archives for the D-Day Memorial in Bedford, Virgirtia and George Kegley, editor of the History Museum and Historical Society of Western Virginia publication, Journal. and Roanoke City's Citizen of the Year 2002, complete the roster of speakers. Willow Bend Books will be offering books not found in local book stores. Local authors* have been invited to participate in a book sale/book signing. Several have already accepted the invitation, but we shall wait until the August issue to name all who accept. Interested in joining a Hereditary or Lineage Society ? or learn what sources are available through the LDS (Mormon) Family History Library? What the internet has to offer researchers? Computor Programs for genealogy? These topics will be covered too. A tour of the Virginia Room will explain the various sources for research there and where to find them will complete the day. Would you like to help in some way? Gene at 540-890-3991 ([email protected]) or Jim at 540-725-5303 ([email protected]) Watch for the full schedule in the next issue of the VAN! *We congratu!ate Arlene Ollie, who will be participating, upon receiving a Heritage Award for her self- published book from the Roanoke Valley Preservation Society on May 7, 2003. WARNING: CARROTS CAN KJLL!! *Nearly all sick people have eaten carrots. Obviously the side effects are cumulative. * An estimated 99% of aJl people who die from cancer i1ave eaten carrots. * Another 99% of people involved in auto accidents ate carrots within 60 days before the accidents. *Some 93.1 % ofjuvenile delinquents come from homes where carrots are served frequently. * Among the people born in 1893 who later dined on carrots, these has been a l 00% mortality rate. from the "Family Tree:, Dec200 l/Jan2002, p6, The Odom Library, The Moultrie Public Library, PO Box 2828 Moultrie, GA 31776-2828 VIRGINIA APPALACHIAN NOTES Family Bibles Rich Resource For Name Connections by ELAJNE POWERS The Virginia Room has a small collection of family Bibles and a growing coll ecti on of pages copied from family Bib1e records. The most well known Bible in the coll ection is the John c. Brickey Bible, donated in 1983 by J.W. Gontennan Jr. of St. Louis, Mo. John Compton Brickey of Catawba Valley was the original donor. In .the ~ast year or so, at least five people have requested copies from the Brickey Bible. The latest mquuy came from Nettie G rimes of Berger, Mo., who has been searching for a connection between her ancestor Lucinda Toadvine and the Brickeys.

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