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As of November 2010, a query for [http://wc.rootsweb.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=Search&includedb=&lang=en&ti=&surname=&stype=Exact&given=&bplace=Botetourt+Virginia&byear=&brange=0&dplace=&dyear=&drange=0&mplace=&myear=&mrange=0&father=&mother=&spouse=&skipdb=&period=All&submit.x=Search individuals born in Botetourt, Virginia] at ''[[World Connect|World Connect]]'', results in more than 80,000 entries.  

*Burton, Charles T. ''Botetourt County, Virginia, Early Settlers: From the Earliest Times through 1795, in the Area that was Botetourt County in 1782, Covers Parts of Present-day Counties of Montgomery, Bath, Giles, Floyd, Alleghany, Roanoke, Craig and Monroe''. Troutville, Va.: [Burton?, 1979?]. {{FHL|635864|item|disp=FHL Fiche 6015637 - 6015638}}.

It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to:  

*Identify publications, to quote [[Elizabeth Shown Mills|Elizabeth Shown Mills]], about an ancestor's "FAN Club" ['''F'''riends, '''A'''ssociates, and '''N'''eighbors]

*'''[Amman] '''''See Adams''.  

*'''[Anderson]''' Mills, Elizabeth Shown. "A Case Study in Family Reconstruction Within a 'Burned County,'" ''The Virginia Genealogist'', Vol. 27, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1983):3-19, digital versions at [http://www.americanancestors.org/Search.aspx?Ca=098&Da=285 American Ancestors] ($); [http://historicpathways.com/download/anderbuckpt2.pdf Historic Pathways]; reprinted in ''Genealogy: A Publication of the Family History Section, Indiana Historical Society'', [http://historicpathways.com/download/burnedcounty.pdf No. 78 (July 1983):1-10] (available for free online at Historic Pathways). Digital version also at [http://www.americanancestors.org/search.aspx?Ca=098&Da=285 American Ancestors] ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 27 (1983)}}.  

*'''[Austin]''' ''See Adams''.  

*'''[Beckner]''' Beckner, William Everett. ''The Beckners of Botetourt''. Fort Thomas, Kentucky: W.E. Beckner, 1928. {{FHL|87082|item}}  

*'''[Brugh]''' Jennings, Ruby Brugh, Vista Brugh Robinson, and Joy Jennings Nash. ''Brugh (Bruch, Brough) Family of Pennsylvania and Botetourt Co., Virginia: Descendents of Hermanus Bruch (Brugh), 1722-1794''. MSS., {{FHL|480842|item}}  

*'''[Clevenger]''' Griffiths, George R. ''Clevenger, Pioneers &amp; Descendants''. Baltimore, Md., 1980.  

*'''[Cottle]''' Cottle, Darryl O. “Joseph Cottle,” ''Greenbrier County West Virginia Family Heritage 1997.'' n.p.: Walsworth Publishing Co., 1996. Page 49.  

*'''[Cross]''' Cross, John Newton, Mary Thompson Cross Cole, and Sarah McLonie Conner. ''William Cross of Botetourt Co., Va., and His Descendants, 1733-1932: Also a Record of the Related Families of McCown, Gentry-Blythe, Cain- Robertson, Harris-Martin, and Conner, of Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois and Missouri''. Columbia, Missouri: E.W. Stephens Publishing Co., 1932. {{FHL|248783|item}}  

*'''[Crow]''' Howell, Margie Ellis. ''Kinfolks of William Parke and Synah Perry &amp; Josiah Wilson and Margaret Crow, Including the Related Families of Hammonds, Estes, Lewis, Lynn, Stephens, Hopper, Wheeler, Ficklin, Ellis and Others''. Kansas City, Mo., 1967. Digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH6,40329 Family History Archives]; {{FHL|2582|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 P222h}}.  

*'''[Ensminger]''' Bell, Raymond Martin. ''The Ensminger Family. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina''. Rev. ed. Washington, Pa., 1961.  

*'''[Francisco]''' Fletcher, Virginia Billingsley and Paul E. Fletcher. ''"Time and Tide," A Francisco Family History. The Ancestors and Descendants of Christopher Francisco and Halana Bowen of Southeast Virginia and Claiborne County, Tennessee''. Fort Lauderdale, Fla., 1989.  

*'''[Frantz]''' Frantz, Dore M. and Ilo Fisher. ''Burials, Frantz Family and Relatives--Extracts from the Dore Manfred Frantz Manuscript: Together with Some Frantz Immigrants Before 1776; Wills, Lancaster, Pennsylvania; Wills and Administrations, Botetourt County, Virginia''. Springfield, Ohio: Friends of the Library Genealogical Research Group, Warder Public Library, 1984. {{FHL|201651|item}}  

*'''[Gammon]''' Barnhart, John D. “The Tennessee Constitution of 1796: A Product of the Old West,” ''The Journal of Southern History,'' Vol. 9, No. 4 (Nov. 1943):532-548. Digital version at [http://www.jstor.org/stable/2197663 JSTOR] ($).  

*'''[Givens]''' Givens, Dorothy Hall. ''A Givens--Hall Family History from Pre-revolutionary Times to 1970: Including Many Related Families Such as Alexander, Bowman, Black, Chapman, French, Green, Johnston, Phlegar, Ross, Snidow, Stafford, Welker and Others''. Radford, Va.: Commonwealth Press, 1971. {{FHL|412823|item|disp=FHL&nbsp;Book 929.273 G449g}}  

*'''[Goodwin]''' "APPENDIX F: The Goodwins of Botetourt and Tazewell Counties, Va,"&nbsp;''The William and Mary Quarterly'', Vol. 8, No. 2, Supplement (Oct. 1899):17-18. Available at [http://www.jstor.org JSTOR] ($).  

*'''[Goodwin]''' Bates, Edward Bryant. ''Brief History of the Goodwin Family of Augusta, Botetout and Tazewell and Tazewell Counties of Virginia''. Bass Lake, California: E. Bates, [198-]. {{FHL|703496|item}}  

*'''[Hensons] '''''See Hansons''.  

*'''[Joliffe]''' Brey, Jane W.T. ''A Quaker Saga ... The Watsons of Strawberryhowe, the Wildmans, and Other Allied Families from England's North Counties and Lower Bucks County in Pennsylvania.'' Philadelphia, Pa.: Dorrance &amp; Co., 1967. {{FHL|584458|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 W331bj}}.  

*'''[Kes(s)ler]''' Kessler, Morris S. and A. Dean Kessler. ''Out from the Blue Ridge: A Genealogical History of the Kessler--Kesler Families of Botetourt County, Virginia''. 2 vols. Champaign, Illinois: M.S. Kessler, 1984-1994. {{FHL|266695|item}}  

*'''[Little]''' Lytle, Leonard. ''The Descendants of John Little of Botetourt and Rockbridge Counties, Virginia: With Notes on Other Lines of Littles &amp; Lytles that May Be Related''. MSS., National Society Daughters of the American Revolution, Washington, D.C. Available at {{FHL|23285|title-id|disp=FHL}}; digital version at [http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=19797 Ancestry] ($); and [http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=qcdl3211_little World Vital Records] ($).  

*'''[Looney]''' Crane, Madge Looney and Phillip L. Crane. ''Most Distinguished Characters of the American Frontier: Robert Looney (b 1692-1702 d 1770) of Augusta (now Botetourt) County, Virginia and Some of His Descendants with Histories of the Great Road, Looney's Ferry, Crow's Ferry, Anderson's Ferry, Boyd's Ferry and Beale's Bridge''. 2 vols. Apollo, Pennsylvania: Closson Press, 1998-2008. Available at {{FHL|671382|title-id|disp=FHL}}.  

*'''[McNeil]''' McNeil, Don W. ''The Lineage of Joseph and John McNeil of Adams County, Ohio, Harrodsburg, Kentucky, and Botetourt County, Virginia: Including Neal McNeil, Grandfather, James McNeil, Father, Mary Anne McNeil, Mother, and Johnathan McNeil, Uncle and Archibald McNeil of Harrodsburg, Peggy McNeil (Archibald's Sister) of New Castle, Delaware, John Shelp of Harrodsburg, Ann Shelp (Step-sister of Joseph and John), and James Kelly of Harrodsburg''. Honolulu, Hawaii: Valley Breeze Press, 1996. Available at {{FHL|777018|title-id|disp=FHL}}.  

*'''[Madison]''' Owen, Thomas McAdory, "William Strother of Virginia and His Descendants," ''Publications of the Southern History Association,'' Vol. 2, No. 1 (Apr. 1898):149-173. Digitized by [http://archive.org/stream/publicationssou15assogoog#page/n152/mode/2up Internet Archive].  

*'''[Means]''' Foglesong, Elizabeth Cissel. ''The Means Family of America''. 1972. {{FHL|17960|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 M462f}}.<br>  

*'''[Minnick]''' Minnick, Michiael Linden and Shirley Ann Driver Minnick. ''The Minnick Family of Botetourt County, Virginia and Henry County, Indiana''. Middletown, Indiana&nbsp;: M.L. Minnick, 1992. Available at {{FHL|706104|title-id|disp=FHL}}; digital book at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH25,95151 BYU Family History Archives].  

*'''[Page]''' Rutherford, Dolores Crumrine. ''The Page Family in Virginia Personal Property Taxes (1782-1850)''. 2 vols. Carmichael, Calif.: D.C. Rutherford, 2002. {{FHL|1060643|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 P141rd v. 1-2}} [Botetourt County appears in Vol. 1]  

*'''[Perkins]''' Perkins, William Robertson. ''Papers 1929-1943. Section 2''. MSS. Available at [[Virginia Historical Society]].  

*'''[Robertson]''' Major, Nettie Leitch. "Robertson Family of Mercer County, Kentucky," ''The Kentucky Genealogist'', Vol. 22, No. 3 (July/September 1980):98-111. {{FHL|149488|item}} 976.9 B2kg v. 22 (1980)  

*'''[Rowland]''' Petersen, Carol Rowland. ''Descendants of John Rowland, Son of William Rowland&nbsp;: (Botetourt Co., Va.)''. Belton,&nbsp;Missouri:&nbsp;C.R.&nbsp;Petersen, 1999. Available at {{FHL|834254|title-id|disp=FHL}}; digital book at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH9,6546 BYU Family History Archives].  

*'''[Smith] '''Smith II, Tyson Douglas, The Direct Male Descendants of Jacob Smith and Mary Shockey Family using Y-DNA. Available for free at two locations [https://sites.google.com/site/thesmithfamilycorp/home/smith-dna sites.google.com/site/thesmithfamilycorp/home/smith-dna]&nbsp;and &nbsp;[http://www.scribd.com/doc/34297698/Jacob-Smith-1810-Census-Montgomery-County-Virginia www.scribd.com/doc/34297698/Jacob-Smith-1810-Census-Montgomery-County-Virginia]  

*'''[Spratt]''' Buchanan, Paul C. "The Spratt Family of Southwest Virginia Prior to 1800," ''The Virginia Genealogist'', Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1988):297-305. Digital version at [http://www.americanancestors.org/search.aspx?Ca=098&Da=285 American Ancestors] ($). {{FHL|33159|item|disp=FHL Book 975.5 B2vg v. 32 (1988)}}.  

*'''[Stoner]''' Stoner, Vera Barnhart. ''The Family of Jacob Stoner II of Botetourt County, Virginia: With Historical and Genealogical Records, 1732-1965''. Ladoga, Indiana: V.B. Stoner, 1965. Two copies available at FHL:&nbsp;{{FHL|105786|title-id|disp=here}} and {{FHL|312450|title-id|disp=here}}.  

*'''[Stoner]''' Stoner, Norris Eugene. ''Our Stoner Family, 1732-1991: The Family of Jacob Stoner "II" (1781-1836) of Botetourt County, Virginia, and Some Other Descendants of His Grandfather Jacob Stoner "I" (1731/32-1804) of the Spring Garden Farm, Frederick County, Maryland, with Historical and Genealogical Records and Pictures''. Tampa, Florida: N. E. Stoner, 1991. Available at {{FHL|586105|title-id|disp=FHL}}.  

*'''[Wilson]''' Howell, Margie Ellis. ''Kinfolks of William Parke and Synah Perry &amp; Josiah Wilson and Margaret Crow, Including the Related Families of Hammonds, Estes, Lewis, Lynn, Stephens, Hopper, Wheeler, Ficklin, Ellis and Others''. Kansas City, Mo., 1967. Digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH6,40329 Family History Archives]; {{FHL|2582|item|disp=FHL Book 929.273 P222h}}.<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.  

*'''[Wymer]''' Weimer, Robert E., Weimer Genealogical Center (Albuquerque, New Mexico), and Mary W. Dixon. ''The Weimer Family: As Known to 1974 [and Beyond]''. Multi-volume. Albuquerque, New Mexico: Weimer Genealogical Center, 1975-. Available at {{FHL|12969|title-id|disp=FHL}}; digital version at [http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/u?/FH2,40218 BYU Family History Archives].

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