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W h a t ' s N e w . . .
A revised descendancy chart and research notes on the Minter clan,
with sources and contacts.
My earlier narrative on my line, Minters of Henry County,
is also here, unedited since September, 2005, along with some new
photographs and a fascinating story from the writers' project of the
Works Progress Administration in the 1930s.
June 4, 2007
Another photo taken in 1932 of five children of George and
Cora Minter... in addition to four others added since the site opened...
of Caroline County, Virginia
plus
some of their siblings, cousins, aunts and uncles
A Family History and Genealogy Website by
Don Chamberlayne
contents...
(End-notes to the Descendancy Chart)
(ed. September, 2005)
County Reservoir, Leatherwood, Henry County, Va.
... about some of the branches of the family tree originating with Anthony Minter of Caroline County, Virginia, and his wife Elizabeth. It is both genealogical and historical in nature, focussed in part on the author's own line of descendancy, but also, increasingly as new information surfaces, on other branches of this very large family tree.
The project started with my narrative account, posted on the Internet in December, 2004, of the line of this descendancy which leads to me, of Generation 9, through my mother's mother's side (see contents, left). Included with the narrative was a descendancy listing which followed a single path from Anthony [1] down to my great- grandparents in generation 6, then followed all nine of their surviving children, and the 45 children of that generation. Some mistakes and other inadequacies punctuated the effort, and a major problem was the inadequacy of the documentation.
For all its shortcomings, however, its inclusion of the names and vital information (where known) of the siblings of my ancestor at each generation had the effect of attracting responses by email from a few readers, some of them accomplished researchers. In every case, what they told me about their lines piqued my interest, prompted me to do additional research on Minter lines only remotely related to my own, and gradually broadened the focus of my continuing interest in the larger Minter clan.
The revised descendancy listing available here, and the Minter Notes providing the documentation, are the products of this evolutionary process. The "Notes" are designed to work as a stand-alone document providing information on various members of the descendancy, and also as the basic "end-notes" of the listing itself, and the two documents are cross-linked for reference. The design is inherently open to additions and changes at any point, and to the inclusion of links to other websites where the work of other researchers might be tied in, by permission only, of course.
So I hope that interested parties reading what is found here will get in touch with me, let me know what they think of the effort and any suggestions they might have for changes or additions.