Re: NANSEMOND VA early Bethea Parker home?
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NANSEMOND VA early Bethea Parker home?
6/23/99
InNANSEMOND CHRONICLES 1606-1800 VA COLONY BY MRS. EVELYN HURFF CROSS COPYRIGHTED 1973there are at least13 different spellings of the word that meant to the Indians ³a place of good fishing and to the earliestEnglish meant all land south of the JamesRiver. The book which I found in the Suffolk public library is a good history that explains the indian and religious problems that may have affected our Betheas and Parkers... Parkers are mentioned by name but not our Absala whose parents I don¹t think anyone yet knows.
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NANZENUMIn a 1992 FAMILY HISTORY column³NASEMOND SITE OF EARLY SETTLEMENT²written by Virginia H. Rollings in the Daily Presswe are told that the ancientcounty courthouserecords were lost but that researchers are piecing together ³scraps, the old Bibles, tombstones, forgotten gravesites, personal diaries, plantations accounts, Federal papers and war records that survived in other places.² In a futrue meeting of the Portsmouth Genealogy Society we hope to take a field trip to a SuffolkFamily History Center where we can perhaps see some of the surviving courthouse records that were microfilmed and hear Virginia on the subject so interesting to us Parker-Bethea researchers. The article explains that the microfilm canbe reviewed in the courthouse and the Virginia State Archives in Richmond VA and can be ordered in local libraries andFHCs.
In a 1992 FAMILY HISTORY column³NASEMOND SITE OF EARLY SETTLEMENT²written by Virginia H. Rollings in the Daily Presswe are told that the ancientcounty courthouserecords were lost but that researchers are piecing together ³scraps, the old Bibles, tombstones, forgotten gravesites, personal diaries, plantations accounts, Federal papers and war records that survived in other places.² In a futrue meeting of the Portsmouth Genealogy Society we hope to take a field trip to a SuffolkFamily History Center where we can perhaps see some of the surviving courthouse records that were microfilmed and hear Virginia on the subject so interesting to us Parker-Bethea researchers. The article explains that the microfilm canbe reviewed in the courthouse and the Virginia State Archives in Richmond VA and can be ordered in local libraries andFHCs.More Replies:
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Re: NANSEMOND VA early Bethea Parker home?
Diane Gibbs Gambrell 7/02/99