Buchanan 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]

Message Boards

 * Buchanan County, VA Genealogy Forum, courtesy: GenForum. (0+ messages)
 * Buchanan - Family History &amp; Genealogy Message Board, courtesy: Ancestry. (0+ messages)

DNA
DNA has been collected from men claiming descent from the following Buchanan County, Virginia residents. FamilySearch has not independently verified their lineages.

General
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Buchanan, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 35,000 entries.

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

Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Buchanan County families include:


 * Atkins, Oscar T. Buchanan County, Virginia, Families 1860. Williamson, West Virginia: East Kentucky/Southern W.Va. Family Records, 1997. ["Taken in part from the federal census of Buchanan County, Virginia, for 1860, ... and from tax lists, from other census records, marriage records, and from the library and files of the compiler."--T.p.]
 * Sutherland, Elihu Jasper. Some Sandy Basin Characters. 1962; reprint, Clintwood, Va.: Hettie Sutherland, 1985.