Links to the homepages of people with Smyth and neighboring county connections
Allen-Bonham-Killinger Families of Smyth County, VA
Neff Family of Southwest Virginia
You'll find an impressive array of records from Grayson County, VA and Ashe, Alleghany and Watagua Counties, North Carolina Counties in the Upper New River Valley on this excellent website. Jeff recently added the following items which may be particularly interesting to SMYTH COUNTY RESEARCHERS:
THE FAMILY HISTORY
FOUNDATION by Jonathan C. Carter and Phillip C. Carter
On the opening page, select "Histories" in the block
on the left to get into the Carter Family History with links to these Grayson and Smyth County, Virginia families: DeBORD, GRIFFITH, GROSECLOSE, HASHE, PHIPPS, REED AND SHELTON. This is a very attractive and informative website that includes photographs and biographies as well as the standard genealogical data.
CHERYL GRUBB'S HOME PAGE and ELROY CHRISTENSON'S HOME PAGE. . .
Vernard Bond's just created a new and EXCELLENT WEBSITE about the 48th Virginia Infantry. Many of the 48th's members came from Smyth County. Here you'll find the roster, engagements, details about Vernard's relatives in the 48th, confederate flags, and much, much more! If you're looking for confederate soldiers among your ancestors, don't miss this page!
Jump here to locate others who are researching the same family names that you are. Get your names on his page, too. Lists of published sources you might find helpful, and lots more.
Billy Sykes invites you to visit his homepage where he traces his folks back to Eastern Virginia during Revolutionary War days. Many of his Sykes kin migrated to Russell, Wythe, Scott, Wise and Dickenson Counties in Virginia -- and points west! Thanks for sharing your research, Billy!
G.
Lee Hearl
Authentic Appalachian Storyteller
The POORHOUSE STORY
(a clearinghouse for information about 19th century American poorhouses)