Frederick 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]

General
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Frederick, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 160,000 entries.

Frederick County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 300 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.

The Stewart Bell Jr. Archives Room in the Handley Regional Library in Winchester has collected many published genealogies about local families. For manuscript descriptions, see: Index to Inventories. Major manuscript collections that have been microfilmed include:


 * Daisy Amick Collection, 144 WFCHS: Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Wincester, VA. MSS. Microfilmed 2005:.
 * Lucy Hardesty Collection, 1460 WFCHS, Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Virginia. MSS. Online description. Microfilmed 2005: . Notes on hundreds of Frederick County families.
 * Clark Cather Records, 399 WFCHS: Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, Handley Regional Library, Winchester, Virginia. MSS. Microfilmed 2005:.

Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Frederick County families include:


 * Bly, Daniel W. From the Rhine to the Shenandoah: Eighteenth Century Swiss and German Pioneer Families in the Central Shenandoah Valley of Virginia and Their European Origins. 3 vols. Baltimore, Md.: Gateway Press, c1993. (FHL is missing Vol. 2)
 * Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants: A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908, Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. n.p.: n.p., c1909. 975.59 H2c 1963;  1000634 Item 1; digital versions at Ancestry ($); Family History Archives and World Vital Records ($). [3 copies at FHL.]
 * Garner, Grace Kelso. Earliest Settlers, Western Frederick-Eastern Hampshire Counties in Virginia, Their Descendants. 1978.
 * Hammond, Gene Paige. Shenandoah Valley Pioneer Settlers: A Few of Them and Some Notes of Interest: Includes Genealogical Sketches on the Bucher, Dellinger, Eye, Hammond, Sauvage and Walter(s) and Allied Families. Strasburg, VA.: Hammond Printing and Publishing, 1988..
 * Kerns, Wilmer L. Frederick County, Virginia: Settlement and Some First Families of Back Creek Valley 1730-1830. Baltimore: Gateway Press, Inc., 1995. . Includes a large section of family histories for the following families: Thomas, Smith, Babb, Malin, Julian, White, Pugh, Rogers, Lewis, Jenkins, Wright, Walker, Lupton, Barrett, Griffith, Ruble, McCool, Pearson, Scarborough, Chapman, Harris, Bevan, Fisher, Wickersham, Waln, Kackley, Rinker, Bageant, Coe, Larrick, Printzler, Secrist, Marple, Allemong, Purtlebaugh (Bartlebaugh), Sirbaugh, Trowbridge, and many others.
 * Norris, J.E. History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke: Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time, Geological Features, A Description of Their Historic and Interesting Localities, Cities, Towns and Villages, Portraits of Some of the Prominent Men, and Biographies of Many of the Representative Citizens. Chicago: A. Warner &amp; Co., Publishers, 1890. Digital versions at Ancestry ($); Internet Archive. Includes a chapter on Genealogy and Biography (pages 556-804).
 * O'Dell, Cecil. Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia. Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth Pub. Co., 1995. [One of the most impressively researched one-place studies in the United States.]
 * Pollock, Michael E. and Lineage Search Associates. Frederick Findings. Mechanicsville, Va.: Lineage Search Associates, 1988-1997..
 * 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. Harrisonburg, Va.: H.M. Strickler, 1925..