Julie's Mecklenburg, Virginia Discoveries

DNA can be rather confusing, fun, and interesting, all at the same time. Sometimes DNA reveals things we’d rather not know, but can also break through brick walls in our research. I’m adding a section about DNA to my website, so I can share known DNA studies. I’ll share links to helpful tutorials and videos…

Here is an update on how I am listing cemetery and church information on my website. I’m listing all the Mecklenburg county cemeteries that I know of on this new cemetery page. I will notate whether the cemetery is in Munsey Moore’s cemetery books and if so, on which page number. I’ll also give links…

I normally send things as a post, but I couldn’t get this to format correctly for email, so I made a page instead. There are a number of columns, charts and maps. I began with a curiosity about the old place names. I wondered how many place names used to have a post office there?…

1950 Census Enumeration map La Crosse on Google Maps (accessed 8 Jun 2022) current VDOT map My friend looked at the VDOT map of Mecklenburg and wondered what the difference was between the shaded town areas and the rectangles. We investigated and learned that the dotted rectangle areas are magisterial districts. Then my friend discovered…

I’ve spent a lot of time pondering ways to share and sort information by locality. I’ve had so many questions about places. For example, there is a church on highway 47, almost seven miles east of Chase City, that has a Chase City address. But there’s a VDOT sign near the church that says Drapersville.…

Places in Mecklenburg: past and present Early Mecklenburg places were built up near rivers and large creeks. Later, places were built up around mineral springs and railroads. The population movement to larger cities during the depression and then again in World War II to find work, the addition of interstate highways, and the subsequent removal…