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''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Virginia|Virginia ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Amherst County, Virginia|Amherst County]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]   [[Amherst_County,_Virginia_Genealogy|Amherst County Genealogy]]'' [[Image:{{familytree}}]]  
''[[United States|United States ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Virginia|Virginia ]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]  [[Amherst County, Virginia|Amherst County]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]]   [[Amherst County, Virginia Genealogy|Amherst County Genealogy]]'' [[Image:{{familytree}}]]  


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:''See also the main article on genealogical research in [[Amherst County, Virginia]].''
 
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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:  
It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:  
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As of August 2010, a query for [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=Amherst+Virginia&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search persons born in Amherst, Virginia] at ''[[World Connect|World Connect]]'', results in more than 94,000 entries.  
As of August 2010, a query for [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=Amherst+Virginia&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search persons born in Amherst, Virginia] at ''[[World Connect|World Connect]]'', results in more than 94,000 entries.  


*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 information about residents of Amherst County, see [http://virginians.com/sources/sources_f.htm discussion of cited sources].] {{FHL|1376005|title-id|disp=FHL US/CAN<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1273955415140_890" />&nbsp;CD-ROM no.&nbsp;3887}}. Purchase at [http://virginians.com/index.htm Virginians.com].
Compiled genealogies covering many Amherst County families include:<br>
 
*Hardesty, H.H., James S. Presgraves, Jay Cregger, and Diane Neeley. ''Amherst County Families and History: Compiled from Henry Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopaedia''. Wytheville, Va.: J. Presgraves, 1995. {{FHL|1199602|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5496 D2h}}<br>
*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 information about residents of Amherst County, see [http://virginians.com/sources/sources_f.htm discussion of cited sources].] {{FHL|1376005|title-id|disp=FHL US/CAN<span id="fck_dom_range_temp_1273955415140_890" />&nbsp;CD-ROM no.&nbsp;3887}}. Purchase at [http://virginians.com/index.htm Virginians.com].  
*Seaman, Catherine Hawes Coleman. ''Tuckahoes and Cohees: The Settlers and Cultures of Amherst and Nelson Counties 1607-1807''. Sweet Brier, Va.: Sweet Briar College Printing Press, 1992. {{FHL|680612|item|disp=FHL Book 975.549 H2sc}}<br>


=== Bibliography  ===
=== Bibliography  ===


*'''[Anderson]''' Gee, Wilson. "The Bowles, Anderson and Shelton Families as Related to the Descendants of William Sims (1765-1833), and His Wife, Elizabeth Shelton Sims (1767-1833), of Union County, South Carolina," ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 2nd Ser., Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct. 1936):602-608. {{FHL|248629|item}} 973 H25w ser. 2 v. 16 (1936); digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920602 JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Anderson]''' Gee, Wilson. "The Bowles, Anderson and Shelton Families as Related to the Descendants of William Sims (1765-1833), and His Wife, Elizabeth Shelton Sims (1767-1833), of Union County, South Carolina," ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 2nd Ser., Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct. 1936):602-608. {{FHL|248629|item}} 973 H25w ser. 2 v. 16 (1936); digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920602 JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Dameron]''' Dameron, Kyle. ''The Descendants of Zechariah Dameron and Margaret Willis Rucker of Amherst County, Virginia.&nbsp;''Coweta, Okla.: n.p., 1975. {{FHL|929.273 D182a}}
*'''[Blanks]''' Wilson, John H. ''The Blanks Family''. 2 vols. El Paso, Texas: J.H. Wilson, 1971-1982. {{FHL|231121|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 B611bc v. 1-v. 2}}<br>
*'''[Dillard]''' Dillard Family Association. ''Dillard Annual: The Dillard Family Association''. Dillard, Ga.: Dillard Family Association, 1992-[2001]. {{FHL|391873|item|disp=FHL&nbsp;Book 929.27305 D581da}}
*'''[Butler]''' ''Butler Family Bible Records, 1879-1953''. MSS. Microfilm: {{FHL|522867|item|disp=FHL Film 869287 Item 2}}<br>
*'''[Childers]''' Hanks, Virginia C. ''Childers of Lincoln County, Washington''. 1989. {{FHL|420217|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 C437hvc}}<br>
*'''[Dameron]''' Dameron, Kyle. ''The Descendants of Zechariah Dameron and Margaret Willis Rucker of Amherst County, Virginia.&nbsp;''Coweta, Okla.: n.p., 1975. {{FHL|929.273 D182a}}  
*'''[Dameron]''' Dameron, Kyle. ''Descendants of Charles and Mary E. "Polly" (Magann) Dameron''. Tulsa, Okla.: K. Dameron, 1989. {{FHL|446067|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 A1 no. 5601}}<br>
*'''[Dillard]''' Dillard Family Association. ''Dillard Annual: The Dillard Family Association''. Dillard, Ga.: Dillard Family Association, 1992-[2001]. {{FHL|391873|item|disp=FHL&nbsp;Book 929.27305 D581da}}  
*'''[Floyd]''' Floyd, N.J. ''Biographical Genealogies of the Virginia-Kentucky Floyd Families: With Notes of Some Collateral Branches''. Baltimore: Williams &amp; Wilkins Co., 1912. {{FHL|262506|item|disp=FHL Film 1017043 Item 16}}; digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=bUNMAAAAMAAJ Google Books].<br>
*'''[Frost]''' Roberts, Snyder E. ''Descendants of Joseph Frost, Sr. from Amherst, Bedford, &amp; Washington Counties, Va. to Anderson County, Tn. and Elsewhere''. n.p.: S.E. Roberts, 1989. {{FHL|929.273 F929r}}  
*'''[Frost]''' Roberts, Snyder E. ''Descendants of Joseph Frost, Sr. from Amherst, Bedford, &amp; Washington Counties, Va. to Anderson County, Tn. and Elsewhere''. n.p.: S.E. Roberts, 1989. {{FHL|929.273 F929r}}  
*'''[Gatewood]''' Keeney, Roscoe C. ''Gatewood Family: Including: Murray, Keeney, Spaulding, White, Slack, Kelly, Cozad, Jarrett, Bonham, Nowlan, Stanley, Montague, Fout, Bibb''. [Charleston, West Virginia: R.C. Keeney, 2000?]. {{FHL|961245|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 G223k}}<br>
*'''[Goodwin]''' "Appendix M: The Goodwins of Caroline and Amherst Counties, Virginia,"&nbsp;''The William and Mary Quarterly'', Vol. 6, No. 2, Supplement (Oct., 1897), p. 120. Available at [http://www.jstor.org JSTOR]&nbsp;($).  
*'''[Goodwin]''' "Appendix M: The Goodwins of Caroline and Amherst Counties, Virginia,"&nbsp;''The William and Mary Quarterly'', Vol. 6, No. 2, Supplement (Oct., 1897), p. 120. Available at [http://www.jstor.org JSTOR]&nbsp;($).  
*'''[Goodwin]''' Turner, David Anderson and Bonnie Turner Cook. ''White Families of the Virginias: Featuring Descendants of Chickasaw Ben White''. Cape Coral, Fla.: B.T. Cook, 2001. {{FHL|1120579|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 W582td}}<br>
*'''[Hansard]''' Hansard, Sam L. ''Descendants of John Hansard of Amherst County, Virginia, 1766-1976. ''Knoxville, Tenn.:&nbsp;Hansard, 1977. {{FHL|929.273 H198b}} [Mislabeled Jansard in FHLC.]  
*'''[Hansard]''' Hansard, Sam L. ''Descendants of John Hansard of Amherst County, Virginia, 1766-1976. ''Knoxville, Tenn.:&nbsp;Hansard, 1977. {{FHL|929.273 H198b}} [Mislabeled Jansard in FHLC.]  
*'''[Higginbotham]''' Sweeny, Mrs. William Montgomery. "Colonel James Higginbotham, Surveyor of Amherst County, Virginia,"&nbsp;''The William and Mary Quarterly'', Second Series, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1931), pp. 29-41. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Higginbotham]''' Sweeny, Mrs. William Montgomery. "Colonel James Higginbotham, Surveyor of Amherst County, Virginia,"&nbsp;''The William and Mary Quarterly'', Second Series, Vol. 11, No. 1 (Jan., 1931), pp. 29-41. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Higginbotham]''' ''Higginbotham Family''. [[Library_of_Virginia|Library of Virginia]], Genealogical Notes [Collection], Box 4, Hig. {{FHL|298906|item|disp=FHL Film 29884 Item 1}}<br>
*'''[Hill]''' Albin, Nancy Hill Layne. ''A Genealogical History of the Hill, Dameron, Layne and Bailey Families''. n.p.: N.H.L. Albin, 2001. {{FHL|1039668|item|disp=FHL CD-ROM no. 774}}<br>
*'''[Hylton]''' Hylton, Paul and Evelyn Hylton. ''Genealogy of the Hylton Family in America Branch of George Hilton, Sr., 1699-1770?, of (Goochland Co., Albemarle Co., Amherst Co.) Va.'' Woodinville, Washington: P. &amp; E. Hylton, 1979. FHL US/CAN&nbsp;Pedigree no. 1041.  
*'''[Hylton]''' Hylton, Paul and Evelyn Hylton. ''Genealogy of the Hylton Family in America Branch of George Hilton, Sr., 1699-1770?, of (Goochland Co., Albemarle Co., Amherst Co.) Va.'' Woodinville, Washington: P. &amp; E. Hylton, 1979. FHL US/CAN&nbsp;Pedigree no. 1041.  
*'''[Landrum]''' Wiley, Roberta V. Landrum. ''Some Descendants of Thomas Landrum of Amherst Co., Va. and Allied Families''. Parkville, Mo.: n.p., 1974. {{FHL|929.273 L238w}}  
*'''[Landrum]''' Wiley, Roberta V. Landrum. ''Some Descendants of Thomas Landrum of Amherst Co., Va. and Allied Families''. Parkville, Mo.: n.p., 1974. {{FHL|929.273 L238w}}  
*'''[Landrum]''' Albin, Nancy Hill Layne. ''A Genealogical History of the Hill, Dameron, Layne and Bailey Families''. n.p.: N.H.L. Albin, 2001. {{FHL|1039668|item|disp=FHL CD-ROM no. 774}}<br>
*'''[Lane]''' Williams, Lyle Keith. ''The Lane-Robertson Families of Amherst County, Virginia and Descendants''. Fort Worth, Texas: L.K. Williams, 1991. {{FHL|929.273 L24wi}}  
*'''[Lane]''' Williams, Lyle Keith. ''The Lane-Robertson Families of Amherst County, Virginia and Descendants''. Fort Worth, Texas: L.K. Williams, 1991. {{FHL|929.273 L24wi}}  
*'''[Layne]''' Layne, Floyd Benjamin and William Robert Layne. ''Layne Pedigree [Chart], Amherst, Va.'' n.p.: F.B. Layne, 1952.&nbsp;FHL US/CAN Pedigree no. 2157.  
*'''[Layne]''' Layne, Floyd Benjamin and William Robert Layne. ''Layne Pedigree [Chart], Amherst, Va.'' n.p.: F.B. Layne, 1952.&nbsp;FHL US/CAN Pedigree no. 2157.  
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*'''[Omohundro]'''&nbsp;Palmer, Gloria Omohundro. ''Descendants of Spottswood James Omohundro of Amherst County, Virginia, and Elsberry, Lincoln County, Missouri''. Santa Ana,&nbsp;Calif.:&nbsp;G.O. Palmer, 1984. {{FHL|929.273 Om6p}}&nbsp;  
*'''[Omohundro]'''&nbsp;Palmer, Gloria Omohundro. ''Descendants of Spottswood James Omohundro of Amherst County, Virginia, and Elsberry, Lincoln County, Missouri''. Santa Ana,&nbsp;Calif.:&nbsp;G.O. Palmer, 1984. {{FHL|929.273 Om6p}}&nbsp;  
*'''[Penn]''' Allen, Robert M. ''The Ancestry of Joseph Penn of Amherst Co., Virginia''. San Jose, Calif.: R.M. Allen, 1980. {{FHL|1206417}}&nbsp;Item 7  
*'''[Penn]''' Allen, Robert M. ''The Ancestry of Joseph Penn of Amherst Co., Virginia''. San Jose, Calif.: R.M. Allen, 1980. {{FHL|1206417}}&nbsp;Item 7  
*'''[Powell]''' Floyd, N.J. ''Biographical Genealogies of the Virginia-Kentucky Floyd Families: With Notes of Some Collateral Branches''. Baltimore: Williams &amp; Wilkins Co., 1912. {{FHL|262506|item|disp=FHL Film 1017043 Item 16}}; digital version at [http://books.google.com/books?id=bUNMAAAAMAAJ Google Books].<br>
*'''[Quinn]''' Marshall, Thomas E. ''Some Descendants of Jordon Stewart Quinn, Amherst County, Va.'' Bedford, Va.: T.E. Marshall, 1990. {{FHL|929.273 Q44m}}  
*'''[Quinn]''' Marshall, Thomas E. ''Some Descendants of Jordon Stewart Quinn, Amherst County, Va.'' Bedford, Va.: T.E. Marshall, 1990. {{FHL|929.273 Q44m}}  
*'''[Rose]''' Rose, Christine. ''Abstracts of Early Virginia Rose Estates: Wills, Inventories, Accounts and Administrator's Bonds before 1850''. San Jose, Calif.: Rose Family Bulletin, 1972. {{FHL|975.5 A1 no. 56}}; digital version at [http://www.heritagequestonline.com Heritage Quest Online] ($).  
*'''[Rose]''' Rose, Christine. ''Abstracts of Early Virginia Rose Estates: Wills, Inventories, Accounts and Administrator's Bonds before 1850''. San Jose, Calif.: Rose Family Bulletin, 1972. {{FHL|975.5 A1 no. 56}}; digital version at [http://www.heritagequestonline.com Heritage Quest Online] ($).  
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*'''[Shelton]''' Gee, Wilson. "The Bowles, Anderson and Shelton Families as Related to the Descendants of William Sims (1765-1833), and His Wife, Elizabeth Shelton Sims (1767-1833), of Union County, South Carolina," ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 2nd Ser., Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct. 1936):602-608. {{FHL|248629|item}} 973 H25w ser. 2 v. 16 (1936); digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920602 JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Shelton]''' Gee, Wilson. "The Bowles, Anderson and Shelton Families as Related to the Descendants of William Sims (1765-1833), and His Wife, Elizabeth Shelton Sims (1767-1833), of Union County, South Carolina," ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 2nd Ser., Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct. 1936):602-608. {{FHL|248629|item}} 973 H25w ser. 2 v. 16 (1936); digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920602 JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Sims]''' Gee, Wilson. "The Bowles, Anderson and Shelton Families as Related to the Descendants of William Sims (1765-1833), and His Wife, Elizabeth Shelton Sims (1767-1833), of Union County, South Carolina," ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 2nd Ser., Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct. 1936):602-608. {{FHL|248629|item}} 973 H25w ser. 2 v. 16 (1936); digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920602 JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Sims]''' Gee, Wilson. "The Bowles, Anderson and Shelton Families as Related to the Descendants of William Sims (1765-1833), and His Wife, Elizabeth Shelton Sims (1767-1833), of Union County, South Carolina," ''The William and Mary Quarterly'', 2nd Ser., Vol. 16, No. 4 (Oct. 1936):602-608. {{FHL|248629|item}} 973 H25w ser. 2 v. 16 (1936); digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/1920602 JSTOR] ($).  
*'''[Sorrells]''' Weaver, Dorothy Lee. ''The Sorrells Family of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia''. Orange, Va.: D.L. Weaver, 1990. {{FHL|625593|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 So69w}}<br>
*'''[Sweeney]''' Sweeney, J. Harvey. ''Moses Sweeney, 1734-1813 Descendants from Amherst County, Virginia and Lincoln County, Kentucky''. Crossville, Tenn.:&nbsp;Sweeney Trust, 2005. {{FHL|929.273 Sw35s}}  
*'''[Sweeney]''' Sweeney, J. Harvey. ''Moses Sweeney, 1734-1813 Descendants from Amherst County, Virginia and Lincoln County, Kentucky''. Crossville, Tenn.:&nbsp;Sweeney Trust, 2005. {{FHL|929.273 Sw35s}}  
*'''[Thurmond]''' Donnelly, Shirley. ''The Thurmonds:&nbsp;A Study in the Genealogy and History of Philip Thurmond of Amherst County, Virginia and His Descendants''. Oak Hill, W. Va.: n.p., 1939. {{FHL|1036037}} Item 17; digital versions at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=25672 Ancestry] ($); and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=qcdt3338_thurmonds World Vital Records] ($).  
*'''[Thurmond]''' Donnelly, Shirley. ''The Thurmonds:&nbsp;A Study in the Genealogy and History of Philip Thurmond of Amherst County, Virginia and His Descendants''. Oak Hill, W. Va.: n.p., 1939. {{FHL|1036037}} Item 17; digital versions at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=25672 Ancestry] ($); and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=qcdt3338_thurmonds World Vital Records] ($).  
*'''[Tucker]''' Tucker, Denise A. ''The Family of Drury Tucker of Amherst County, Virginia''. Greensboro, N.C.: D.A. Tucker, 2002. {{FHL|929.273 T795td}}  
*'''[Tucker]''' Tucker, Denise A. ''The Family of Drury Tucker of Amherst County, Virginia''. Greensboro, N.C.: D.A. Tucker, 2002. {{FHL|929.273 T795td}}  
*'''[White]''' Turner, David Anderson and Bonnie Turner Cook. ''White Families of the Virginias: Featuring Descendants of Chickasaw Ben White''. Cape Coral, Fla.: B.T. Cook, 2001. {{FHL|1120579|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 W582td}}<br>
*'''[Worley]''' Dean, H. Clark. "Caleb Worley (say 1730-circa 1790) of Virginia and Kentucky, Grandson of Francis Worley of Pennsylvania," ''The American Genealogist'', Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr. 1995):75-81. {{FHL|973 D25aga}}.  
*'''[Worley]''' Dean, H. Clark. "Caleb Worley (say 1730-circa 1790) of Virginia and Kentucky, Grandson of Francis Worley of Pennsylvania," ''The American Genealogist'', Vol. 70, No. 2 (Apr. 1995):75-81. {{FHL|973 D25aga}}.  
*'''[Wright]''' Grant, Robert N. ''Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia Part VII, 1767 Francis Wright of Amherst County, His Wife Mary (Hawkins) Wright and His Descendants''. Menlo Park, Calif.: R.N. Grant, 2008. {{FHL|929.273 W93gry v. 7}}; digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH34,112950 Family History Archives].  
*'''[Wright]''' Grant, Robert N. ''Sorting Some of the Wrights of Southern Virginia Part VII, 1767 Francis Wright of Amherst County, His Wife Mary (Hawkins) Wright and His Descendants''. Menlo Park, Calif.: R.N. Grant, 2008. {{FHL|929.273 W93gry v. 7}}; digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH34,112950 Family History Archives].  
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