A Summer of Pestilence in Norfolk, Virginia

Finding Families on Virginia Pioneers.net

One thing to consider when discovering genealogy is what happened to family members. Because of the effects of plagues and fevers, whole families could disappear from the records. This is a significant reason to search old graveyards for evidence of small children and other relatives. Noting that a later number of biographical and county histories were published during the early 19th and 20th centuries, this is a valuable resource for learning minute details familiar to the author.