Legacy Services

Do you want to know more about your family's history? Have you gathered loads of family information but don't know where to start? Have you scoured Internet resources looking for your elusive ancestor, to no success? Do you need on-site research, but do not live close to the original records? Legacy Services can help!

Here is a sample of the services we can do for you:

• Researching of a specific life event such as a birth, death, marriage, census record, passenger record, adoption, will, etc..
• Document retrieval and copies
• Help you organize and make sense of a collection of family papers that may be sitting in your attic or house (you may have inherited from a relative) -- including conversion of data to electronic format (genealogy software) or possibly perform follow-up research or suggest research avenues
• Lineage Research and reports
• Printed Family trees, pedigrees and genealogies
• Translation and Transcription
• Photography of local gravestones, buildings, and churches
• Local Newspaper research
• Photo Restoration
• Online genealogical research through a number of databases

Geographical Areas in Virginia for On-Site Research

• Stafford County
• Fredericksburg
• King George County
• Other areas: I may be willing to travel to locations beyond those mentioned above if time and life priorities allow.Additional costs may be assessed. Please contact me to discuss this further.

 

Local Deed and Property Research

Underutilized but often yielding tremendous genealogical research value, land and property records can sometimes deliver surprising answers. Land records can be especially helpful in defining various family relationships that help to solve particularly tough genealogical problems. Land records, especially in a state as old as Virginia, are a very important resource which researchers should not overlook.

As a deed researcher for the Stafford County Cemetery Committee, Debbi's experience in performing deed research is an important qualification if you have a question regarding your property as the result of a vague deed description either in your deed, or a neighbor’s deed. The majority of deeds she has read (numbering in the thousands) contain at least some ambiguity in ownership and/or lot size.

Your deed research report will include copies of all plats and deeds recorded with the Stafford County Courthouse.It will list all owners in chronological order, as far back as Debbi can research, usually the early 1800s.

Contact Debbi for a Quote!!!