BTRVETC-L Digest Volume 99 : Issue 18
17 Apr 1999
Today's Topics:
Interviews of former slaves
Re: New Additon to the Family Tree!!!
Re: New Additon to the Family Tree!!!
BEDFORD, VA. WEBSITE UPDATE
Burnett/Turner resources
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 08:31:11 -0400
From: "Eunice B. Kirkman" <ekirkman@swva.net>
To: "BTRVETC List" <BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org>
Cc: "ROOTS-L" <ROOTS-L@rootsweb.com>,
"Patrick County" <VAPATRIC-L@rootsweb.com>
Subject: Interviews of former slaves
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The URL is http://eagle.vsla.edu/wpa.
The major achievements of the Virginia Writers' Project were two notable
publications: Virginia: A Guide to the Old Dominion (New York, 1940)
and The Negro in Virginia (New York, 1940). Other significant
accomplishments included the collection and transcription of local folklore
and folk songs, with over 3,850 items collected from 62 counties between
mid-1937 and mid-1942. The VWP also interviewed 300 former slaves
in 1936 and 1937, and completed approximately 1,350 life histories,
social-ethnic studies, and youth studies between October 1938 and May 1941.
The life histories document family life, health conditions, employment
and educational opportunities (or lack thereof), gender roles, religious
beliefs, as well as personal and community economic and social
conditions in Virginia in the 1930s. The narratives are also an important
source of information about race relations, changing employment patterns,
and the impact of public events and social trends on private lives.
The Electronic Index to the collection provides access to the records which
describe each narrative or other document. These records contain the name
of the interviewer, title and date of the life history, a summary,
subject terms, and biographical and occupational data. The records
can be searched by name, title, subject, and keyword. The life
histories have been digitized, and linked to the records in the database.
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Date: Sat, 10 Apr 1999 11:55:37 -0400
From: "Sonny&Elvira Griffith" <griffitm@erols.com>
To: "BTRVETC-L" <btrvetc-l@genealogy.org>
Subject: Re: New Additon to the Family Tree!!!
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Jane,
Wonderful news! Congratulations to your daughter, Jalyn, and her husband,
and to you for your new grandson. Hope everything continues to go well.
Sonny Griffith
-----Original Message-----
From: Jane Matherly <jmather@swva.net>
To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org <BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org>
Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 7:58 AM
Subject: New Additon to the Family Tree!!!
>Jalyn, our youngest daughter, delivered NOLEN-LYNN PATRICK BOYD at 2:09,
>Friday, April 9, 1999 at Community Hospital, Roanoke, Va. Both are doing
>well. He weighed 6 Lb.-9 3/4 oz., has black curly hair and blue eyes as of
>now. If everything continues to go well, they will come home Sunday. She
>plans to call him "Nolen-Lynn."
>She has another son, BRYOR DAVIDSON DANIELS, who was born July 5, l995.
>As you can tell, we are big on family names. Jalyn is a combination of my
>name & my husband's, Lynn, and Nolen is my maiden name. Jalyn's full name
>is Jalyn Nolen Matherly Daniels-Boyd.
> JANE
>
>
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Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 23:49:57 -0400
From: Jane Matherly <jmather@swva.net>
To: BTRVETC-L <btrvetc-l@genealogy.org>
Subject: Re: New Additon to the Family Tree!!!
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Thanks, they are home and doing well.
JANE
At 11:55 AM 4/10/99 -0400, you wrote:
>
>Jane,
>
>Wonderful news! Congratulations to your daughter, Jalyn, and her husband,
>and to you for your new grandson. Hope everything continues to go well.
>
>Sonny Griffith
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jane Matherly <jmather@swva.net>
>To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org <BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org>
>Date: Saturday, April 10, 1999 7:58 AM
>Subject: New Additon to the Family Tree!!!
>
>
>>Jalyn, our youngest daughter, delivered NOLEN-LYNN PATRICK BOYD at 2:09,
>>Friday, April 9, 1999 at Community Hospital, Roanoke, Va. Both are doing
>>well. He weighed 6 Lb.-9 3/4 oz., has black curly hair and blue eyes as of
>>now. If everything continues to go well, they will come home Sunday. She
>>plans to call him "Nolen-Lynn."
>>She has another son, BRYOR DAVIDSON DANIELS, who was born July 5, l995.
>>As you can tell, we are big on family names. Jalyn is a combination of my
>>name & my husband's, Lynn, and Nolen is my maiden name. Jalyn's full name
>>is Jalyn Nolen Matherly Daniels-Boyd.
>> JANE
>>
>>
>
>
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Date: Tue, 13 Apr 1999 00:22:11 -0400
From: Waddie Salmon <waddie@earthlink.net>
To: List - B <btrvetc-l@genealogy.org>
Subject: BEDFORD, VA. WEBSITE UPDATE
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Hi Cuzins,
Just wanted to tell everyone that I have updated the Bedford
Genealogical Society web site. I added a cool weather link near the top
for Bedford, but you can click on it and get yours too.
Also added, "Are You Coming To Bedford?" This gives you a couple of
recommended places to stay with their addresses and Phone numbers, plus
an excellent little restaurant near the Courthouse and Museum.
"Bedford Visitors Center" - This is a well done web site on Bedford
which shows you a lot of the varied things to see and do in and around
Bedford.
"Information Page" on genealogy research and costs on genealogy
requests done by the Bedford Genealogy Society. This is to be updated
with more detailed information soon.
Web site is located at, http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Lane/9681/
HAPPY SPRING Y'ALL,
Cuzin Waddie
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/3348/
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Date: Fri, 16 Apr 1999 22:28:25 EDT
From: BEColvin@aol.com
To: BTRVETC-L@genealogy.org
Subject: Burnett/Turner resources
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There are books for sale as listed which will possibly interest the people on
this list. I did a hotbot search and found these. To order you can go to
Higginson Book Co higginsn@cove.com
BURNETT Genealogy, supplementing the Burnap-Burnett genealogy (1925), by
Edgar A. Burnett. 148p. 1941. $23.00
BURNETT Fam. with coll. branches, by C. Burnett. 316p. 1950. $48.00
BURNETT. The family of Burnett of Leys, with collateral branches, comp. by
G. Burnett. xxii+367p. 1901 (Scotland). $61.00
TURNER Family Magazine: genealogical, historical & biographical, Vols. 1 &
2, 95p. 1916-7. $18.00
TURNER. Genealogy of the desc. of Humphrey Turner, with fam. records, by J.
Turner. 64p. 1852. $12.50
TURNER Family of Conn. (extr. Bassett gen.) 9p. 1926. $4.00
TURNER. See also DURYEA.
A quiet member of this list. Beth Colvin in FLorida
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