Dr. Marshall Wingfield was widely regarded as the foremost authority on the history and genealogy of Franklin County, Virginia. Although his manuscript on the p

This is a collection of the abstracts of the oldest court records for Franklin County in existence, ranging over civil suits, appointments of justices of the pe

Grayson County is famous in southwestern Virginia as the cradle of the New River settlements--perhaps the first settlements beyond the Alleghanies. The Nuckolls

This book provides family sketches and genealogical information on the first families to settle in the area of East Tennessee that originally made up the state

The book rings with the names of early inhabitants and prominent citizens. For the genealogist there is the important and wholly fortuitous list of tithables of