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 Don't forget though, since Clarke wasn't a county until the 1830s, your older records will be over on Frederick County site. We are looking for local people who will look up records at courthouses and libraries. We also need local people with basic html to be county coordinators all over Virginia. Please contact me if you can help in anyway! maloneys7193@gmail.com

~Rebecca Maloney

I am Rebecca Maloney, Temporary Webmistress and Coordinator for Clarke County, VA site. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make. If you would like to adopt this county or any other Virginia Counties please contact our State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp

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Clarke County Was Established

HISTORY
Clarke County is named for George Rogers Clark, spelled without the "e", the county seat is Berryville. Berryville, laid out on land owned by Benjamin Berry at the crossroads where the tavern community known as Battletown was located.


The Town of Berryville (county seat) celebrated its Bicentennial in 1998, and the Bicentennial history book is 200+ pages, 375 photos, oral histories, hardbound. Clarke County Historical Association will be selling the book with the profits underwriting historical publication projects.
(For sales information see CCHA website ). Berryville, VA 22611

The Genealogy of Clarke County, with Shortcuts to Ancestor Counties: Charles River Co (Original Shire) --> Chickacoan Indian Reserve name changed to York Co (1642,) Northumberland Co (1648), Lancaster Co (1651), New Kent Co (1654), Rappahannock Co (1656-1692) (defunct), King and Queen Co(1691,) Essex Co (1692), King William Co (1702), Spotsylvania Co (1721), Orange Co (1734,) Frederick Co (1743), Clarke Co (1836).

I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of Clarke County roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I live in Colorado and do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.

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Make sure you check the "Research Resources" section! There are books on line: Clarke County Families and helpful links, look up volunteers and local researchers to help you out.

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Surrounding Counties

MORGAN COUNTY, WV

BERKELEY COUNTY, WV

JEFFERSON COUNTY, WV

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"The Chosen"

We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."

by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."

 

OUR COUNTY'S FAMILIES

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If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:

Coordinator - Rebecca Maloney

State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp

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If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research.

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