Charles City 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

 * Charles City County, VA Genealogy Forum, courtesy: GenForum.
 * Charles City - Family History &amp; Genealogy Message Board, courtesy: Ancestry.

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

General
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Charles City, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 60,000 entries.

Charles City County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 100 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.

Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Charles City County families include:


 * Boddie, John Bennett. Southside Virginia Families. 2 vols. 1955-1956; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976..
 * Davis, Virginia Lee Hutcheson. Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy. 12 vols. Urbanna, Virginia: V.L.H. Davis, 1992-2004.
 * Foley, Louise Pledge Heath. Early Virginia Families Along the James River, Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches. 3 vols. Richmond, Va.: L.P.H. Foley, 1974-1990. . Volume 2 includes Charles City County families (see also Vol. 1).
 * Harrison, Francis Burton and Fairfax Harrison. Aris Sonis Focisque; Being a Memoir of an American Family, the Harrisons of Skimino: and Particularly of Jesse Burton Harrison and Burton Norvell Harrison. New York: De Vinne Press, 1910. Digital version at Internet Archives. Discusses the Harrisons, Jordans, Bates, Burtons, Hudsons, Whitlockes and Bacons were landowners in the adjoining counties of York, James City and Charles City and across the James River in Nansemond, from the middle of seventeenth century, and later in Henrico and all were of purely English stock.
 * Lawrence-Dow, Elizabeth. Autographs of 65 Gentlemen Justices, Militia Officers and Members of the Grand Jury from Charles City/Prince George and Surry counties Who Signed an Oath of Loyalty to Protestant King William III of England in March 1701/2. Richmond, Va.: Dietz Press, 1976. . [Includes biographies of Charles City County men.]
 * McCartney, Martha W. Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635: A Biographical Dictionary. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2007. ; purchase at Genealogical Publishing Company.
 * Pritchett, John W. Southside Virginia Genealogies. CD-ROM. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. Free online index, courtesy: Virginians - The Family History of John W. Pritchett. [Includes a great deal of information about residents of Charles City County, see discussion of cited sources.] . Purchase at Virginians.com.