I was fortunate to spend the day at the North Carolina Genealogical Society's fall workshop today. Barbara Vines Little spent the day speaking on colonial research. I have heard Barbara speak on other occasions and was eagerly looking forward to hearing her speak again. Her specialty is colonial research in Virginia.
Colonial Virginia. 1760's. King and Queen County. That's precisely where my Howard (or is it Harward?) line is stuck.
As far as Virginia research goes, King and Queen County is not a good place to be stuck. It is a burned county. Twice. There are no records for the time period I am researching.
At the first break I approached Barbara to inquire if there were possibly any ways to research this time and place in history that I had not thought of. When I explained the county and time period I was interested, she smiled and said, "You have my sympathy." (I get that a lot in my colonial VA research!)
But all is not lost. Barbara went on to give me some ideas and areas for research that could possibly lead to clues about the Howards (Harwards). These areas of further research may be long shots, but I'll never know until I look.
If this next phase of my research doesn't find any results..... DNA anyone?
No comments:
Post a Comment