Perhaps the reader of this e-mail will have some suggestions. In the meantime I saw a post on the Virginia list from some folks who were very excited because they had found that their ancestor was a child of Samuel Sheperd DuVal and his wife Anne Everard Bolling. Unfortunately this info was incorrect. DearJUDY, This question of readily accepting what is found in print either in libraries or on the Internet as gospel truth is the bane of a true genealogist's existence.
Responsible researchers take everything with a grain of salt.
Then they try to prove matters using original documents created at the time the ancestor lived. Copyright 1997 by National Genealogical Society. Permission is granted to copy or publish this material provided it is reproduced in its entirety, including this notice. From this we can see that the folks who jump to conclusions are really shortsighted. I'd like to think they are just beginning genealogists, but I fear they are not.