Dinwiddie County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies

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It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:


 * Locate publications about direct ancestors
 * Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
 * Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]

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Dinwiddie County, Virginia Genealogy General Resources
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Dinwiddie, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 20,000 entries.

Dinwiddie County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 50 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.

Dinwiddie County, Virginia Genealogy Books and Articles


It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:


 * Locate publications about direct ancestors
 * Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family
 * Identify publications, to quote Elizabeth Shown Mills, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors]


 * [Adams] Hardy, Stella Pickett. Colonial Families of the Southern States of America. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1911. Digital version at Google Books - free.
 * [Andrews] Baer, Mabel Van Dyke and Ella Smith Johns Andrews. Andrews Charts. Typescript, National Library, D.A.R. Microfilmed 1971. 1986 supplement:
 * [Archer] Davidson--Rust Family Bible Records, ca. 1795-1866. MSS. Microfilmed 1964:
 * [Atkinson] Atkinson, John Wilder. Genealogical Notes Concerning the Atkinson Family. MSS., ca. 1900. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Banister] Horner, Frederick. The History of the Blair, Banister and Braxton Families Before and After the Revolution: With a Brief Sketch of Their Descendants. Philadelphia: J.P. Lippincott, 1898. ; digital version at Google Books.
 * [Boisseau] "Boisseau Family" Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 10 (1928-1929):118-130, 280-283. ; Reprinted in Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine. Volume I: Albidgton-Gerlache. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Company, Inc., 1981. Free Name Search ; publisher's bookstore: Genealogical.com;.
 * [Bolling] Bolling, Robert, John Robertson, and John Randolph. A Memoir of the Bolling Family in England and Virginia. Richmond, Va.: W.H. Wade, 1868. ; digital versions at - free; Google Books - free.
 * [Bolling] Hardy, Stella Pickett. Colonial Families of the Southern States of America. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1911. Digital version at Google Books - free.
 * [Bourdon] Wilson, LeGrande James. History of a Southern Presbyterian Family. Richmond, Va.: Whittet &amp; Shepperson, 1900. ; digital version at Internet Archive.
 * [Briggs] Lancaster, Robert A. "Wales, Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 44, No. 3 (Jul. 1936):232-237. Available at JSTOR ($). [Residence of the Briggs family.]
 * [Browder] Browder, Thomas E. and David P. Browder. Genealogy of David Browder of Virginia and His Descendants. Nashville, Tenn.: Folk and Browder, 1902. ; digital version at Internet Archive.
 * [Burrow] Burough, Howard Duane. The Burrow Family: Des[c]endants of Henry and Lucy Burrow from Virginia to North Carolina and Beyond: Allison, Amick, Bowman, Buckles, Burough, Burrough, Burroughs, Burrow, Embler, Gomble, Goodman, Lane, McCarry, Moore, Robinson, Stout, Warren, Yergin, York and Related Families. Augusta, Ga.: H.D. Burough, 1981.
 * [Butler] Conyers, Docia Butler. Butler, Harris, Lamb Family Records. Lynn, Ind.: D.B. Conyers, [1957?].
 * [Chambers] Chambers, Catherine Cox. Chambers Family Genealogy. Blackstone, Va.: C.C. Chambers, 1987. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Curtis] Curtis, Jack. Curtis' "Lingering Shadows" and Circle of Related Families, 1485-1993. 2 vols. [Greenville, Miss.]: J. Curtis, [1993?]. Vol. I: 929.273 C941cj
 * [Curtis] Curtis, Jack. Fearless, Faithful, Forgotten Richard Curtis, Jr., 1755-1811. [Greenville, Miss.]: J. Curtis, [1997?].
 * [Dabney] Dorman, John Frederick. "Some Dabney Family Papers, Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 9, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1965):111-114. ; digital version at American Ancestors ($).
 * [Davis] Rawlings, Michael R. The Family History of D'earcy Paul and Lula Virginia (McKenney) Davis of Dinwiddie, Isle of Wight and Southampton Counties in Virginia Being a Genealogical Outline of Their Descendants Covering the Years 1858-1996 and Assorted Sketches of Family Social History from the 1780s through the Present, Including Eight Generations. Spring Grove, A.: M.W. Rawlings, 1996. 929.273 D291r
 * [Day] Barfield, Rodney and Patricia P. Marshall. Thomas Day: African American Furniture Maker. Raleigh, N.C.: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2005, 2008. (Book Storage 0290615)
 * [Downman] Steffens, Mary W. "Porteus - Downman Family," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1990):28-33. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Doyle] Doyle Family Records. Typescript. Microfilmed 1975. 928067 Item 4
 * [Doyle] Doyle, Leigh Silfred. The Doyles from Winona Farm, Dinwiddie County, VA. n.p.: L.S. Doyle, 2003.
 * [Dudley] Dudley, Claude William. The Dudley Family. Richmond, Va., 1971..
 * [Duncan] Dobson, Mary Ann Duncan. Duncan Research Files of Mary Ann (Duncan) Dobson. MSS. 1975-1999. Includes Dinwiddie County.
 * [Elder] Wood, Edith Louise. A Genealogical History of the Sturgeon, Elder and Allied Families of Kentucky. Louisville, Ky.: E.L. Wood, 1968.
 * [Elder] Elder, Lee M. The Elder Families. San Angelo, Texas: L.M. Elder, 1992.
 * [Epes] Jones, Richard Lyon. The Muir-Epes Murder of 1846: Dinwiddie County, Virginia, a History. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, 1993. Available at Virginia Historical Society
 * [Ferguson] Curtis, Oscar F. Ferguson Research File. Typescript. Microfilmed 1989:
 * [Field] Thomas, Mary Ann and Marquette A. Thomas. Fields Family Findings Newsletter: Genealogical Newsletter. Sacramento, Calif.: M.A. Thomas, 1984-1997.
 * [Francis] Bushnell, Jean. Francis (France) Genealogical Records, 1721-1953. MSS. Microfilmed 1987:
 * [Glasscock] Gottschalk, Kathrine Cox. Glasscock Family Proof that William Glasscock Married Ann Sallard in Virginia and Removed from Richmond County, Virginia to Dinwiddie County, Virginia and from There to Richmond County, Georgia. Typescript. Microfilmed 1971.
 * [Goodwin] Goodwin, John S. The Goodwin Families in America. Whittet &amp; Shepperson, 1897. 1969 reprint available at . 1990s supplement also available at.
 * [Goodwin] "Appendix K: The Goodwyns of Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 6, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1897):104-114. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Goodwin] "Appendix K: The Goodwyns of Dinwiddie County, Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1899):19-22. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Goodwin] "Additional Notes on the Goodwyns and Goodwins of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1899):140-142. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Goodwin] "Dinwiddie Co., Va., Richland Orangeburg Districts, S. C., Goodwyns," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1899):26-37. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Goodwin] "The Goodwins of Dinwiddie Co., Virginia," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 8, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1899):135-138. Available at JSTOR ($).
 * [Grammer] Evans, Johnny William, Alice Erickson McCollum and Catherine Eastburn Jennings. John Grammer and Wife, Elizabeth Abernathy of Dinwiddie County, Virginia and Their Descendants. n.p.: J.W. Evans, 2000. ; digital version at - free.
 * [Greenwood] Greenwood, Frederick and Brown Thurston. Greenwood Genealogies, 1154-1914: The Ancestry and Descendants of Thomas Greenwood, of Newton, Massachusetts; Nathaniel and Samuel Greenwood, of Boston, Massachusetts; John Greenwood, of Virginia, and Many Later Arrivals in America, Also the Early History of the Greenwoods in England, and the Arms They Used. New York: Lyons Genealogical Co., 1914. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
 * [Grigg] Gilchrist, Cleo Grigg Johnson. William Grigg I, Immigrant to the Virginia Colony - 340 Years of His Descendants, 1640-1980. 5th ed. Boise, Idaho: C.G.J. Gilchrist, 1984, c1981.
 * [Grigg] Gilchrist, Cleo Grigg Johnson. William Grigg I, Immigrant to the Virginia Colony - 340 Years of His Descendants, 1640-1980. 1987 update of 1984 edition. Boise, Idaho: C.G.J. Gilchrist, 1987, c1981.
 * [Hamlin] Kelly, Wilhelmina Rhodes and Linda Rhodes Jones. John W. Hamlin of Dinwiddie County, Virginia: His Ancestors and Descendants, 1753-2004. Brooklyn, N.Y.: Weeksville Society, 2004.
 * [Hardaway] Hardaway Family Records, ca. 1770-1831. MSS. Microfilmed 1960:
 * [Hardie] Clark, Robert M. Hardie, Vincent, Gaines, and Related Families from Virginia to Texas. [Dallas, Texas?]: R.M. Clark, 1989.
 * [Harris] Wiggins, Kathryn. The Harris Papers: A Genealogical Notebook. Camarillo, Calif.: K. Wiggins, 1968?-.
 * [Hatch] Dallett, Francis James. Thomas Hatch's Autobiographical Letter of 1813, A Commentary. Philadelphia: n.p., 1975.
 * [Hinton] Efford, Joan M. Our Efford Family of the Northern Neck: and Related Lines. Tappahannock, Va.: J. Efford, 1992..
 * [Hutchings] Hutchins [sic.] &amp; Moore Family Letters. MSS. Microfilmed 1939: [Moved to Wilson County, Tennessee.]
 * [Jackson] Brandenberger, Evelyn Duke. "The Jacksons of Lower Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 30, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1986):163-169; Vol. 30, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1986):288-295; Vol. 31, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1987):11-18; Vol. 31, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1987):101-111; Vol. 31, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1987):195-204; Vol. 31, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1987):269-278; Vol. 32, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1988):49-57; Vol. 32, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1988):119-130; Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1988):185-192; Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1988):259-263; Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1989):34-44; Vol. 33, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1989):135-143; Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1989):204-207; Vol. 33, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1989):295-304. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Jackson] Jackson, B. Darrell. Jackson Family History: Descendants of Robert Jackson of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, to Nine Generations, ca. 1760-2008: with Ancestry of Allied Families -- Johnson, Blakely, Shields, Cooper, Stiles, Kitchell, Pierson, Bruen, Ogden, Swaine, and Owsley. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 2009.
 * [Jackson] Jackson, B. Darrell. "Robert Jackson of Dinwiddie County in the Records of Wilson County, Tennessee," Magazine of Virginia Genealogy, Vol. 49, No. 4 (Nov. 2011):282-292.
 * [Jarratt] Jarratt, Devereux and John Coleman. The Life of the Reverend Devereux Jarratt: Rector of Bath Parish, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Printed by Warner and Hanna, 1806. Digital version at Google Books.
 * [Jarrett] "Jarrett-Meanly-Jolly-Slaughter," Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, Vol. 9 (1927):122-124.
 * [Jones] Brayton, John Anderson. "Using Middle Names to Reconstruct a 'Burned County' Pedigree," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1992):163-172. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Jones] Coke, Ben H. Genealogical Notes Concerning the Jones Family. MSS. 2000. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [King] King, Clefaine Elizabeth Reed. Thomas Benjamin King: His Ancestry and His Descendants. Bountiful, Utah: Family History Publishers, 1993.
 * [Lanier] Ingersoll, Louise. Lanier: A Genealogy of the Family Who Came to Virginia and Their French Ancestors in London. Washington, D.C.: Goetz Printing Company, 1965. Digital version at World Vital Records ($).
 * [Lewis] McCurdy, Lewis Hall and Rosa Lyon Traylor. "Francis Lewis Family Burying Ground," Quarterly of the Lowndes County Historical and Genealogical Society, Vol. 15, No. 3 (3 Jul 1982). {{FHL|1330063|item|disp=FHL Book 976.1465 B2Lp v. 15, no. 3 (July 1982).
 * [Malone] Cain, Stith Malone. "The Malone Family of Southside Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 13, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1969):99-105. Digital version at American Ancestors ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 13 (1969)}}.
 * [Manson] Dorman, John Frederick. Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5. 3 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004-2007. Volume 1. {{FHL|1149556|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 H2j v. 1}}.
 * [May] Coke, Ben H. John May, Jr., of Virginia: His Descendants and Their Land. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 1975. {{FHL|12300|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 M452a}}.
 * [Mayhugh] Mayhugh, Luther Wesley. The Robert "Bob" Philip Mayhugh Family History. Columbus, Ind.: Postal Instant Press, 1984. {{FHL|550261|item|disp=FHL Film 1435483}}
 * [Moore] Hutchins [sic.] &amp; Moore Family Letters. MSS. Microfilmed 1939: [Moved to Wilson County, Tennessee.]
 * [Muir] Jones, Richard Lyon. The Muir-Epes Murder of 1846: Dinwiddie County, Virginia, a History. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, 1993. Available at Virginia Historical Society
 * [Page] Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. The Page Family in Virginia Personal Property Taxes (1782-1850). 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 2002. {{FHL|1060643|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 P141rd v. 1-2}} [Dinwiddie County appears in Vol. 1]
 * [Pattillo] Plumblee, Millard Quentin. At the Foot of the Lake: The Pattillo-Patillo Family and Allied Lines. Burlington, N.C.: M.Q. Plumblee, 1987. {{FHL|675343|item}} 929.273 P277pmq
 * [Peeley] Curtis, Oscar F. Ferguson Research File. Typescript. Microfilmed 1989:
 * [Pegram] Buford, Marcus Bainbridge. A Genealogy of the Buford Family in America, With Records of a Number of Allied Families. San Francisco, Calif., 1903. Digital version at Internet Archive - free.
 * [Perdue] Pardue, Ida M. Asa Perdue, b. 1817, VA., m. Frances Pucket Amelia Co., VA., Chesterfield Co., VA., Dinwiddie Co., VA. Typescript, donated 1988. {{FHL|635380|item}} 6038586
 * [Pistole] Gaddy, Myrtle Farmer. Charles Pistole and His Descendants. Newport, Ark.: Jackson County Historical Society (TN), 1975. {{FHL|205643|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 P677g}}
 * [Pritchett] Pritchett, William McCaddin. Two Hundred Years - 1765 to 1965: A Preliminary Report on the Family of William Pritchett Sr. Dallas, Texas: W.M. Pritchett, 1965. {{FHL|590172|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 P939pwm}}
 * [Reames] Smith, H.C. The Reams, Reames Family and Allied Families. [Glendale, Calif.?: H.C. Smith, 1954?]. {{FSbook|96999}};{{FHL|39959|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 R23r}};.
 * [Rives] Rives, Jno. R. T. Green Rives of Dinwiddie County, Virginia and Lincoln County, Tennessee and His Descendants. Birmingham, Ala.: Printed by A.H. Cather Pub. Co., 1958. Digital version at Ancestry ($).
 * [Robertson] Hardy, Stella Pickett. Colonial Families of the Southern States of America. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1911. Digital version at Google Books - free.
 * [Rose] Rose, Christine. Abstracts of Early Virginia Rose Estates: Wills, Inventories, Accounts and Administrator's Bonds before 1850. San Jose, Calif.: Rose Family Bulletin, 1972. {{FHL|64054|title-id|disp=FHL US/CAN Book 975.5 A1 no. 56}}; digital version at Heritage Quest Online ($).
 * [Ruffin] Ruffin, Clara Flowers and Raymond S. Ruffin. Descendants of John D. Ruffin, Sr. 1988. Available at Virginia Historical Society.
 * [Sears] Huff, Audrey Dyre. Sears Genealogy, ca. 1700-1980. MSS. 1980. {{FHL|206059|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 Se17h}}
 * [Simmons] Nowery, Sharon Lee. Pictorial Family Register Joshua H. Simmons and Cynthia Jane (Magers) Simmons of Crawford County, Ohio and Dinwiddie County, Virginia. Rock Hill, S.C.: S.L. Nowery, 1995. {{FHL|736172|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 Si47n}}.
 * [Smith] Dennstedt, Alberta Marjorie. "Progenitors and Kinfolk of Abraham Childers III," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 34, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1990):3-13; Vol. 34, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1990):97-109; Vol. 34, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1990):180-194; Vol. 34, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1990):266-280; Vol. 35, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1991):43-54; Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1991):108-118; Vol. 35, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1991):199-207. American Ancestors ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 34 (1990)-v. 35 (1991)}}.
 * [Snipes] Snipes, Alfred Marshall and Sharon Merritt. Family History of John Manley Snipes (1761-1844) &amp; Sarah Lindsey (1770-1861): of Chatham County, North Carolina &amp; Their Descendants: With Allied Families -- Atwater, Bynum, Clegg, Dixon, Durham, Foust, Hatch, Herndon, Justice, Lacy, Lambe, Lindsey, Lloyd, Mann, McCauley, Moore, Neville, Roberson, Stanford, Stroud, Strowd, Teague, Thompson, Ward. Oklahoma City, Okla.: A.M. Snipes, 2006. {{FHL|1361550|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 Sn36sa}}
 * [Spain] Gibson, Marie Jeannette Mjaseth. Some De[s]cendants of Edwin Spain 1794-1873 of Virginia, Ohio and Iowa. Sacramento, Calif.: M.J. Gibson, 1992. {{FHL|708810|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 Sp15g}}
 * [Spiers] Lane, Marian Spiers. Census Reports of Spiers, Spires, Speirs: Prince George, Sussex, Dinwiddie, Surry, Virginia. MSS. Microfilmed 1982: {{FHL|116823|item|disp=FHL Film 1307573 Items 2-4}}
 * [Starke] Tyler, Lyon G. "The Starke Family," The William and Mary Quarterly, Vol. 4, No. 4 (Apr. 1896):270-272. Digital version at JSTOR - free.
 * [Stark] Hardy, Stella Pickett. Colonial Families of the Southern States of America. New York: Tobias A. Wright, 1911. Digital version at Google Books - free.
 * [Thompson] Brown, Emma Catheryn Champion and Jonathan K.T. Smith. Thompson Kin of Yellow Creek Valley (Tennessee). Memphis, Tenn.: J.K.T. Smith, 1974. {{FHL|36193|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 T381b}}
 * [Thompson] McManus, Thelma S. and Grace E. Burlison. Come Over into Macedonia the Charles Thompson Line from Dinwiddie County, Virginia to Ripley County, Missouri, 1760-1974. Doniphan, Mo.: Vitronic Division, Penn Corp., 1974, c1965. Digital version at {{FSbook|112232}} - free; {{FHL|35059|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 T371m}}
 * [Vaughan] Vaughan, Jack Chapline. The General, the Colonel, and Martha Jane. Arlington, Texas: J.C. Vaughan, 1976. {{FHL|136435|item|disp=FHL Book 921.73 V465a}}
 * [Wells] Baer, Mabel Van Dyke. Three Early Virginia Families: Bressie (Bressey, Bracy, Brassieur, and Variants), Gunn, Wells. Typescript, National Library, D.A.R. {{FHL|320481|item|disp=FHL Film 858791 Item 14}}
 * [Westmoreland] Foster, Lucia. Westmoreland Ancestry: 1980 Update. Cove, Ark.: L. Foster, 1980. {{FHL|119511|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 W528f}}
 * [White] White, Thomas D. "Randolph White of Dinwiddie County," The Southside Virginian, Vol. 9, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1991):24-25.
 * [White] White, Thomas D. "Benjamin King White of Dinwiddie County," The Southside Virginian, Vol. 9, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1991):74-75.
 * [Wilkinson] Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. "The Wilkinson Family of Southside Virginia: Descendants of John and Sarah (Royall) Wilkinson," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 36, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1992):3-9; Vol. 36, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1992):126-140; Vol. 36, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1992):178-193; Vol. 36, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1992):260-272. Digital version at American Ancestors ($)..
 * [Wingfield] Walker, Michael Wingfield. From William to William: 200 Years in New Wingfield Genealogy. St. Louis, Mo.: M.W. Walker, 1989. {{FHL|512363|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 A1 no. 6995}}
 * [Wright] Dickerson, Linda. "A Brief Account of the Life of Henrietta Anne Virginia Green Crowder Wright," The Family Photo Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 2 (Apr. 1989):4-5. Available at Virginia Historical Society.