Is your family part of Virginia History? Please post here to join us in the Virginia Project. [closed]

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The Virginia Project covers the people, places, and events through time in the geographic region that we know today as Virginia. See the Virginia Project page for information on our scope of activity and some related projects.

If you are a WikiTree member who would like to help improve profiles and other WikiTree content in Virginia, please:

1. Log In and introduce yourself by answering this post. (Please post an answer, not a comment.) Tell us about your interests in Virginia — and how you intend to contribute — and we will get you a US History badge.
2. Add virginia to your followed tags.
3. Apply to join our discussion email list and optionally join our project profile feed.
4. Create a member entry for yourself on our project page.

Please be sure to check out our project page for links to the various related-projects you might want to join.  Note that several other specialized US-related projects, such as US Southern Colonies, US Presidents, and the 1776 Project, have their own badges separate from this one.  You don't also need to join the Virginia project to participate in one of those projects, but most of us work on multiple topics and may want to be in more than one project.

Thank you!

Please post your request to join us as an answer, not a comment.

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Please provide an 'answer' instead of a 'comment'.

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Hello. I added a lot of profiles of my distant cousins on Ancestry. One group is the Cuffee family of Chesapeake, VA. They do historical stuff in a Facebook group and claim Ancestry back to the 1600s of a guy from Ghana whose son had a ship in Massachusetts. I’m just maybe a 3rd or 4th cousin -but they told me, and I just wrote it down so I wouldn’t forget. Another different family line I was trying to type was some folks on ‘Finding your Roots’ on PBS. I don’t know any of them. I match a black distant cousin’s family on AncestryDNA or 23andme. But that got me to try the GEDcom upload a few months back. That’s why I was asking about the African American sticker. We live in the Hampton Roads area of Virginia.

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hello my son is related to the Cuffee and I also will be working on adding that family and information to their trees.

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Hi.  That’s great. I also added a few more profiles to the tree during the July connect-athon that WikiTree had.  Thank you. 

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I ask to join this group as both my paternal (John Stevenson, 1618 (?) Great Britain- 1677 Lancaster, VA ) and maternal (James Mackgayhee (alias MacGregor) 1618 Scotland-1675 King William, VA) families originate from colonial Virgina. I hope I can find more earlier connections to John Stevenson as he is my brick wall back to GB. I have trees on Wikitree on both these families

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Hi Don! The Virginia Project doesn't cover colonial Virginia - it picks up at 4 July 1776. Check out the US Southern Colonies Project - see its project page & welcome message.

If you'd like to join the Virginia Project also, could you post an answer (instead of a comment)?

Cheers, Liz

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Hello, I would like to join the Virginia project please.  Interested in tracing lineage from both sides of my family that go back several generations in Virginia.  Thank you :)

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Great, look forward to your family contributions from Virginia!

Answer 2

I would like to join The Virginia Project, please.

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Great to have you!

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I would like to join. I  have several family lines that go back to Virginia, that is where I hit my brick walls.  Thank you.  Linda

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I hope our Virginia collaboration helps with your brick walls.

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I would like to join the Virginia Project

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Thanks for joining us!

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Gary Williams, I would like to join this project.  I have several lines that settled in Virginia before and during Colonial times.  My many great grandfather Henri Trent was among the Jamestown colonists, My maternal Payton (Peyton) family settled in the Virginia colony and my many great grandfather Williams Isaac Williams Sr and his family settled in Wythe, Virginia in the 1760s, prior to the Revolutionary War.

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Looking forward to your contributions related to Wythe county.

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Thank you for your improvements of that profile, William.

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That would be Wayne Co Ky

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Welcome, Gary Williams.

My family, on my mom's side, comes from Carroll and Grayson Counties in Virginia.

I look forward to learning how we are related, since you and I share dna.

Your cousin,

Susan

Wilson-31949

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I would love to join your Virginia Project.  My Fathers side of the family is mostly from and stayed in Virginia and I am researching much of these ancestors.

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Looking forward to your contributions related to your paternal lines in Virgiina.

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Very interested in this Virginia project. Have many ancestors through my maternal grandmother, including Stone, Clark, Lee, and others from King George, Stafford and Orange counties going back to Colonial days. From the Clark’s of Clark’s Mountain to the Lee’s documented by George Harrison Sanford King in The Genealogy of Carolyn Jackson Lee.

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Glad to have your help with Stone, Clark, Lee, and others in King George, Stafford, and Orange counties!

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I would like to join the Virginia project. My direct ancestor William Biby came to Virginia in 1620. His son Edmond was born on the Eastern Shore, Northampton, VA in 1636. Edmonds son John Thomas Biby was born 1657 in Charles Parish, York, VA. Thomas Biby/Bybee was born 1689 in York, VA. Thomas' son John Bybee Sr. was born 1706 in St. James Parish, Goochland, VA. John Bybee Jr. was born 1739 in Fluvanna Co. VA. He served in the Revolutionary War. His son John Bybee III was also born in Fluvanna Co., VA in 1767 dying in Barren County Kentucky. I have other Virginia ancestors but this one is the best documented.

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This request is for Moore-39004.

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I would like to join the Virginia Project.

Linda Payne Kitchens

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Glad to have you on board!

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My four times great grandfather, Thomas Vaughan (Vaughan-4009), was born in Albemarle Colony/County, Virginia, and served in the U.S. Revolutionary War of 1776. I have already connected the Vaughans of Vaughan's Grocery Store in Victoria, Virginia well enough to prove to my satisfaction that they are my cousins. Primarily, I would like to solidify my connection to Thomas and his ancestors; secondarily, I would like to genealogically connect more of my Virginian cousins.

Coincidentally, I moved to Virginia in 2015, because my wife is from Virginia, so I have done some research on her Virginian ancestry, and I would also like to extend those connections.

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Perhaps you can extend our source list for Albemarle county?  Looking forward to your contributions.

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I would like to join the Va project. I have many, many Virginia connections. Almost all my family is through that state, and I am a native Virginian. (6 or seven generations on many lines.)

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Being local, you may be able to help us by visiting libraries near you that have Virginia source materials not available online.

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Mr. Foster, I hope there was not a mis-understanding. I ma native Virginian, however I LIVE in South Carolina. I'm not near any local resources unless I visit home. I will help all I can.

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No problem not being local, appreciate whatever help you can provide.

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Not me but my husband. Multiple ancestors in Fluvanna and Goochland Counties in Virginia. Family names are Johnson, Pace, Massey, Newsome, Leake, Cocke.

From the Shenandoah area Parrett, Custer.

Others include Haworth and Barrett.

Most of these originated in Virginia in the late 1600s to the mid 1700s

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You cannot join anonymously, you must be logged in when you post so we know your Wikitree identity.

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Yes, that is my answer. I thought I was logged in when I wrote it.

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I'm very interested in a Virginia project. My Kibble line traces back to VA in the early 1800s, late 1700s, to Faquier country.

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Nice to have you join us!

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Most of my family came from Virginia and West Virginia.   They were among the earliest settlers in the mountains state.    Worked in timber, coal, and railroads.   Migrated from Wales.

Tom Clark

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Great to have help in both Virginia and West Virginia!

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I'd like to join. My first Virginia ancestor came in the 1600s and most of us are still here!

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Looking forward to early Virginia contributions from you!

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Many lines back to Virginia, some from 1600's era.  Would like to join the Virginia project.  Thanks!

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Sorry about the reshow, clicked wrong button...  Glad to have your early Virginia help!

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Hi Everyone in Virginia Project:

Looking forward to collaboration with you all !  I am sure many of us are cousins.   Still building out my Wiki Tree so some of these ancestors do not have a profile yet.  Did not want to get too much on my plate as I am still learning the system.   But, if I can connect some by adding just a few profiles to make it to one of your ancestors that have already have a profile,  will love to do so.   Will be posting surnames soon, I just wanted to say "Hi" for now.  Making a list so far have 20 ancestors on my paternal tree 3 on my maternal tree, and I just started that side, that either were born in Virginia early on, or migrated to Virginia  during 1600's and 1700's.  Some as early as 1635, 1637, 1654 and not to mention a couple Pamunkey ancestors that were of course already here by the time Europeans found the place.   Thanks for the opportunity to contribute and to learn a few things hopefully too !

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Glad to have you, let me know if you need help with anything.

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I would like to join The Virginia Project, please.

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Great, we're happy to have you join us!

Answer 18

Would love to help! Ihave the following last names in family.

Howe, Musgrave,  Darnell,Warnock, Steele and Owens.

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I would very much like to join the VA project.  My lines on both sides were all over VA from the coast to South West VA.  Lines are Stipe, Hood, Bledsoe, Bryant, Shupe, Horton, Fraley and many others.

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You cannot join anonymously, you must be logged in when you post so we know your Wikitree identity.

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Oops, my fault. I thought I was logged in.  Yes, I do want to join the Virginia project.  Thanks.

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No problem, and thanks for joining us!

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I would like to join Virginia project please

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I have hit the wall tracking my great great grandfather, John Wesley Evans. JW was born abt 1826 in Virginia. The US Census has him living in various places including Kansas in 1880. He might have died in Nebraska in 1880 after the census date. His occupation was "farming". I can't seem to find any trace of him prior to 1826. So I'm wondering if he was born in what is not West Virginia. Were there any records kept at this time and what became of these records after 1862?

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"​​​​​West Virginia (Part of Virginia State 1788-1863) Statehood 1863)  Named Kanawha in 1861, the name became West Virginia before statehood in 1863.  It must be remembered when searching W. Virginia census records.... any census shown in the following indexes that were enumerated before 1863 are actually found in Virginia records."   Source http://www.censusfinder.com/west_virginia.htm

I have written down the information and will try to help you look for him later today!

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Hi Mx. Sibert,

Are you asking to join our Virginia Project?

Thanks.

-William

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Yes, I would like to join the Virginia Project.

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Can you let us know the wikitree ID for John Wesley Evans?  Since your profile is RED private, we cannot see your pedigree.

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Hi Loretta,

Thanks for the response. John W Evans was enumerated in the 1850 Census in Ohio. We was listed as a 25yro farmer born in Va. His wife Sara A Evans was listed as 19yro and born in Ohio. Some trees list JW's precise birthdate, but none of these trees has and birth or marriage documentation.

Thanks for any help you can provide.

John

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John Wesley Evans is Evans-7133 (managed by Anonymous Lewin). Sorry about the RED. I'm new to WikiTree, bewildered by the privacy settings and a bit paranoid about identity theft. I think I changed the privacy setting so that you can view John Wesley's profile.

Thanks,

John

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Yes, John I can see it now.   Thanks, William I was wondering the same.... thought I had it down to one of 2 John Evans, anyway.  The one in Muskingum which it is, and there is one that was also married in 1850 to a Sarah in Butler County OH.   Do you know John when they were married ?  Could that also be a marriage record for them ?  I see the first child Stephen was born about 1851....possibly ?  ( FYI, many of my Smith family migrated from Frederick and Shenandoah, Virginia to Muskingum County... we are most likely cousins in some way. :)

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John:  I will send you a private message so we are not eating up the board with folks joining.   I found a Zeno T Evans whose family leads back to John Evans Sr, born abt 1715 (my estimate) in Surry Virginia.   I would be a betting person that Zeno is a passed down family name.  (one I think I have only heard one other time).  One of John Wesley Evans children's names.   So I think I have an Ancestry person you should collaborate with,  if your not already at the least.  Will send details.