Southside Virginia Genealogies by John W. Pritchett

Southside Virginia Genealogies is a compilation of several hundred family histories, each of which, typically, extends back to the colonial period in Southside Virginia. This remarkable CD compilation actually began life as an Internet site--Virginians.com--and it has racked up more than a million visitors since its inception in 2001. Since then it has grown to 4,000 pages and continues to be a popular destination for anyone researching Southside lineages. However, it has recently been configured to include only first generation data, so this new CD version of Southside Virginia Genealogies is now the only means of gaining access to the full range of information on all generations.

Based on the multi-generational family history of the author, John W. Pritchett, and the histories of various allied families, it includes hundreds of genealogies and nearly 400 autobiographical narratives of residents of Southside Virginia-- the area of Virginia south of the James River, east of the Blue Ridge Mountains, and north of the North Carolina border.

Each family topic contains information on several generations of descendants organized in an easy-to-follow format, with sources carefully arranged in 56,700 endnotes. Altogether Southside Virginia Genealogies contains more than 67,000 citations, including references to about 10,000 marriages, 9,000 wills, 10,000 deeds, 3,800 land patents and grants, and 5,000 census reports, with notes on more than 1,000 members of the Virginia legislature, 230 members of Congress, and hundreds of veterans of the Revolution and the Civil War.

The full-name index alone contains more than 90,000 entries, and all this information is instantly accessible via the popular Adobe Acrobat Reader platform. In addition, the CD contains four appendixes that identify about 45% of the residents appearing in specific county tithable lists of colonial Henrico, Chesterfield, and Amelia counties.

The following is a list of the principal surnames covered:

Abbott, Abernathy, Abney, Adams, Allen, Anderson, Archer, Atkinson, Austin, Ba(I)ley, Bagley, Bagwell, Baker, Ballow, Banister, Barber, Barrow, Baskerville, Bass, Batte, Batty, Baugh, Beauchamp, Belfield, Berkeley, Bevill, Biddlecomb, Billups, Binford, Blackman, Blanton, Blunt, Boisseau, Booker, Borum, Bott, Bottom, Bouldin, Bowman, Branch, Brasseur, Briggs, Brodnax, Browder, Brown(e), Bruce, Burton, Butler, Cabanis, Cabell, Carleton, Carr, Carrington, Carter, Cave, Chappell, Cheatham, Chisum, Christopher, Clack, Claiborne, Clarke, Clary, Clay, Clement, Cocke, Cole, Cook, Cousins, Cox, Craddock, Crawley, Cross, Dance, Daniel, DeJarnette, Dennis, Dickenson, Dickson, Dortch, Dupuy, DuVal, Echols, Edloe, Edmundson, Edwards, Eggleston, Elam, Eldridge, Ellington, Elmore, Embry, Epes, Evans, Farmer, Farrar, Featherstone, Feild, Finney, Fitzgerald, Flood, Ford, Fowlkes, Fox, Friend, Fry, Garland, Gee, George, Giles, Gilliam, Gillintine, Glascock, Goode, Green(e), Gunn, Guthrey, Hall, Hammock, Hampton, Hancock, Hardaway, Harris, Harrison, Harvey, Harwood, Haskins, Hatcher, Hatchett, Hicks, Hil(l)sman, Hill, Hooper, Howlett, Hubbard, Hudson, Hunnicutt, Isbell, Jackson, Jacobus, Jefferson, Jeffress, Jennings, Jeter, Johns, Jones, Jordan, Kelly, Kennon, Knight, Knowles, Laffoon, Lambert, League, Lewis, Ligon, Lilley, Lockett, Logwood, Lound, Mabry, Maclin, Mallory, Manly, Manly, Marchbanks, Markham, Marshall, Mayo, McGehee, Mitchell, Moody, Moore, Morgan, Morton, Moseley, Motley, Mumford, Munford, Muse, Nash, Neal, Nicholson, Oldham, Oliver, Osborne, Overton, Owen, Parker, Patram, Pemberton, Penick, Penick, Perkinson, Perrin, Peterson, Petty, Price, Pride, Pritchett, Pulliam, Quarles, Raines, Randolph, Rawlings, Read, Roberts, Robertson, Robinson, Rogers, Rowlett, Ruffin, Russell, Scarborough, Scott, Seay, Sheppey, Sherman, Simmons, Skerme, Skipwith, Smith, Snead, Sparrow, Stewart, Stone, Stratton, Stuart, Swepson, Sydnor, Tanner, Tarpley, Tatum, Thweatt, Tinsley, Traylor, Trent, Turpin, Tyus, Vaden, Vaughan, Walker, Wallace, Walthall, Ward, Watkins, Watson, Webber, Westmoreland, White, Wil(l)son, Wilkes, Winn, Wood, Woodson, Wooldridge, Worsham, Wynne, and Yarbrough.