Dove, Henry, or Hendrick or something else completly?

Question

I am trying to sort out the Dove tree at least for my own clarification. There are multiple entries for Henry Dove and Hendrich Dove.

I am trying to figure out who is who. Unfortunately a lot of geneologists have been using a book written in the 1980's regarding the Dove family history and according to my grandfather the author went around taking word of mouth accounts from living people as gospel.

Sources other than that book would be great.

 

Thanks

Answer 1

Sometimes the oral traditions passed down are more accurate than the written records of the period... anyways I am guessing from the entry you are working from the LDS genealogies - I try to only use their records indexes, and since transcription errors are frequent I always try to see a scan of the orignal if possible.

I normally work with Canadian and Dutch records but there is a list of German genealogy resources here that seems fairly comprehensive:

http://home.bawue.de/~hanacek/info/edatbase.htm

As far as Virginia records perhaps this will help:

http://www2.lib.virginia.edu/genealogy/

For the time period of the 1760's census records will probably be of little use since they tended to only name heads of household, but you could try finding wills and probate which tend to name spouses and children as well as siblings, and others. Tax or property records may also prove useful.

You might also find it useful to look at German naming patterns of the period to help you piece together the relationships (and other names to watch for), there is a fairly detailed treatment of the subject at this link.

http://www.kerchner.com/germname.htm