Newman Virginia Roots

The homepage has been completely reworked. We’re adding more places, maps by time period, and charts. We’re also creating an area of the website for transcriptions, in addition to the links to records in FamilySearch. William Halbert’s page is ready to view. There are many things we haven’t released yet, because the more we write,…

I have temporarily paused sharing family pages, in order to do more research that could impact our results. We are trying to better understand certain factors of life during the colonial time period, like: At what age did people attend school in Virginia? What kind of education did our Newman friends and family have? What…

My husband and I went to Culpeper to take some pictures. There was a James Newman who was a trustee of Jeffersonton. This James was a large land owner (3,000 acres) in Culpeper’s earliest days. I’m not sure where he fits in with the Newman’s yet. Unfortunately many early Culpeper wills have been lost from…

The whole site has now been reformatted! I hope you enjoy all the new updates, including a drop down menu in the header that now appears on every page. I’m adding in a sentence or two on family pages, until I can do full write ups. Especially to notate if the family moved away from…