Rockingham County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies

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General
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Rockingham, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 170,000 entries.

The Katherine Bushman Papers, 1961-1997 at the Library of Virginia include files about Rockingham County families.

Rockingham County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 450 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.

Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Rockingham County families include:


 * Arrington, Mary Marie Koontz. Mountain Valley People: A Historical Sketch of a Section of Rockingham County, Virginia, and It's People. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 1982..
 * Brock, Robert L. 47 Pioneer Families of Rockingham County, Virginia Who Migrated through Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois to Missouri. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, 1997. 975.5922 D2b
 * Heinegg, Paul. Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware. 2005-present. - free online book. Adams, Ailstock, Barrell, Clark, Connally, Colley, Fortune, Hughes, Hurley, Jackson, McCoy, Mayo, Nickens, Payne, Peters, Redman, Spelman, Tyre, Vena, Venie families of pre-1820 Rockingham County, Virginia.
 * Hodges, Elisabeth Wilson. They Came to Rockingham. Lynchburg, Va.: Warwick House Publishers, 2004. . Includes Bagenal, Berchtoll, Coakley, Colclough, Curry, Driver, Gaines, Games, Kiracofe, Long, Studebaker, Vaughan, Waddle and related families.
 * Kline, Agnes. Stone Houses on Linville Creek and Their Communities, Rockingham County, Virginia. Harrisonburg, Va., 1971. Discusses the Kauffman, Trent, Kline, Branner, Rife, Bowman, and Sites families.
 * Spencer, Paula Underwood. Paula Underwood Spencer Papers. MSS. Library of Virginia. Microfilmed 2001: . Papers consisting of genealogical research on the following families: Elmore, Johnson, Kerns, Skidmore, Cutler, Sutton, Saunders, Lindley, Fansler, Crews, Underwood, Beem, Beemer, Phares, Ellyson and Coons, including those lines which settled in Augusta, Henrico and Rockingham Counties in Virginia and in California, Connecticut, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania and West Virginia.
 * Strickler, Harry M. Forerunners, A History or Genealogy of the Strickler Families, Their Kith and Kin: Including Kauffmans, Stovfrs [i.e. Stovers], Burners, Ruffners, Beavers, Shavers, Brumbachs, Zirkles, Blossers, Groves, Brubakers, Neffs, Rothgebs and Many Other Early Families of Shenandoah, Rockingham, Augusta, Frederick and Page Counties of the Shenandoah Valley: A Memorial to All Who Have Gone Before from about 1700 to the Present Time, 1924 Present Time, 1924. Dayton, Va.: Reubush-Kieffer, c1925..
 * Wayland, John Walter. Virginia Valley Records: Genealogical and Historical Materials of Rockingham County, Virginia, and Related Regions (with Map). Strasburg, Va.: Shenandoah Publishing House, 1930. 485954 Item 3 and  975.5 H2wa 1978; digital version at Ancestry ($); and World Vital Records Original, and Reprint ($). Includes sketches of many families from the area.
 * Wayland, John Walter. Men of Mark and Representative Citizens of Harrisonburg and Rockingham County, Virginia. 1946. Includes ancestor sketches of hundreds of prominent citizens.
 * Yankey, Lewis H. and Patricia T. Ritchie. Brocks Gap Families. 2 vols. Dayton, Va.?: Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society?, 1991-1992. . Contents: v. 1. Bible, Cherryholmes, Freed, Heavner, and Aubrey families -- v. 2. Fink and Sonifrank families.
 * Yankey, Lewis H., Patricia T. Ritchie, and Lonzo Dove. Brocks Gap Miscellaneous Records: Including Notes on These Families: "Hessian John" Baker, Michael Baker, Caplinger, Custer, Dove, Halterman, Hupp, Lair, Lantz, May, Ritchie, Secrist, Siever, Souder, Whetzel, West, and Others... Dayton, Va.?: Harrisonburg-Rockingham Historical Society?, 1992.

DNA
The DNA of President Abraham Lincoln's family has been collected, see: Family Tree DNA Lincoln Surname Project (Samuel the weaver). Matches in England have been discovered.