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[[Image:Goarrow.png]]&nbsp;[[Goochland County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies|Goochland County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies]] <br>[[Image:Goarrow.png]]&nbsp;[[Powhatan County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies|Powhatan County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies]]


=== Henrico County, Virginia Genealogy General Resources  ===


If you're studying the earliest settlers of Henrico County, Virginia, McCartney's book is a great place to start:
*McCartney, Martha W. ''Virginia Immigrants and Adventurers 1607-1635:&nbsp;A Biographical Dictionary''. Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Pub. Co., 2007. {{FHL|1384461|item}}; publisher's bookstore: [http://www.genealogical.com/products/Virginia%20Immigrants%20and%20Adventurers%201607%201635%20A%20Biographical%20Dictionary/3505.html Genealogical.com].
As of November 2012, a query for [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=Henrico+Virginia&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search individuals born in Henrico, Virginia] at ''[[World Connect|World Connect]]'', results in more than 275,000 entries.
[http://www.linkpendium.com/genealogy/USA/VA/Henrico/sur/ Henrico County, Virginia Surnames] (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 500 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.
A full index to ''The Huguenot'' is available [http://huguenot-manakin.org/manakin/HuguenotIndex.php online].
Other multi-family studies of Henrico County residents include:
*Brock, R.A., ed. ''Documents, Chiefly Unpublished, Relating to the Huguenot Emigration to Virginia and to the Settlement at Manakin-Town, with an Appendix of Genealogies Presenting Data of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and Other Families''. 1886; reprint, Baltimore, Md., 1973. {{FHL|52803|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 H2cv new ser. v. 5 1973}}. Digital versions at [http://www.archive.org/details/documentschiefly05broc Internet Archive]; [http://huguenot-manakin.org/manakin/brock1.php The Huguenot Society of the Founders of Manakin in the Colony of Virginia]; [http://www.newrivernotes.com/va/manakin.htm New River Notes]; [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806300507_huguenotvirginia World Vital Records] ($).<br>
*Foley, Louise Pledge Heath. ''Early Virginia Families Along the James River: Their Deep Roots and Tangled Branches''. 3 vols. Richmond, Virginia: L.P.H. Foley; Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co., c1974-c1990. {{FHL|76582|title-id|disp=FHL}}. [Volume 1 includes Henrico County.]
*Jourdan, Elise Greenup. ''Early Settlers of Tidewater Virginia''. 3 vols. Lewes, Delaware: Colonial Roots, 2005-2007. {{FHL|1245772|title-id|disp=FHL}}. [Volume 1 covers the following Henrico County families: Akin, Archer, Ashbrook, Babbicom, Parker, Milner, Batte, Branch, Burton, Cocke, Ligon, Lound, Pleasants, Woodson.]
*Pritchett, John W. ''Southside Virginia Genealogies''. CD-ROM.&nbsp;Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing&nbsp;Co., Inc., 2007.&nbsp;[http://virginians.com/index/index_f.htm Free online index], courtesy: [http://virginians.com/ Virginians - The Family History of John W. Pritchett]. [Includes a great deal of information about residents of Henrico County, see [http://virginians.com/sources/sources_f.htm discussion of cited sources].] {{FHL|1376005|title-id|disp=FHL US/CAN&nbsp;CD-ROM no.&nbsp;3887}}. Purchase at [http://virginians.com/index.htm Virginians.com].
*Robertson, Wyndham. ''Pocahontas: alias Matoaka, and Her Descendants Through Her Marriage at Jamestown, Virginia, in April, 1614, with John Rolfe, Gentleman; Including the Names of Alfriend, Archer, Bentley, Bernard, Bland, Boling, Branch, Cabell, Catlett, Cary, Dandridge, Dixon, Douglas, Duval, Eldridge, Ellett, Ferguson, Field, Fleming, Gay, Gordon, Griffin, Grayson, Harrison, Hubard, Lewis, Logan, Markham, Meade, McRae, Murray, Page, Poythress, Randolph, Robertson, Skipwith, Stanard, Tazewell, Walke, West, Whittle, and Others With Biographical Sketches.'' Richmond, Va.: J.W. Randolph &amp; English, 1887. Available in several editions at {{FHL|94439|title-id|disp=FHL}}; digital version of original edition at [http://books.google.com/books?id=16tPAAAAMAAJ Google Books].


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=== Henrico County, Virginia Genealogy Books and Articles  ===
=== Henrico County, Virginia Genealogy Books and Articles  ===
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