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of Fairfax County, Virginia
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1) Fairfax County Genealogical Resources Project
The Projects Committee is pleased to announce that the revised Visitor's Guide to the Genealogical Resources of Fairfax County, Virginia, was distributed at the Annual Conference in March 2006.  Copies will also be made available to the Virginia Room, the Fairfax County Circuit Court Archives, and the Fairfax City Visitors Center.  Visitors to Fairfax County may also download a printable copy of the pamphlet by clicking here. 

2) Bible Transcription Project
The Projects Committee is pleased to announce that several members have submitted Bible transcriptions for publication in the FXGS newsletter.  Additional Bible transcriptions are always welcomed.  To that end, members of the Society are invited to submit their family Bible transcriptions for inclusion in the FXGS newsletter.  To the extent possible, the Bible transcriptions should be submitted electronically.  Ideally, each submission should be limited to one page and include a brief citation to the Bible and its present whereabouts (if known), a brief description of the family that originally owned the Bible, and the name and e-mail address of the member making the submission.

3)  Family Search Indexing Project
The software is still being refined and "selected organized societies and LDS Church groups will be targeted and brought on board in a scheduled manner."  This is a huge undertaking and the projects will be assigned slowly at first while the software is still being "road tested."  Expect that the many LDS Church groups might be the first assigned.  As soon as we have any further word, we will let everyone know.

4) Colonial Census Substitute Project

The Fairfax Genealogical Society is sponsoring (and Mount Vernon Genealogical Society is supporting) a project to list the currently available documents that provide census-type information for the colonial era (and up to the first United States Federal census of 1790).  The Project Coordinator is Linda MacLachlan.  We have developed a form on which to record relevant information.  The following background may be helpful to those who have not heard Linda's explanation of this project.

A census can be as simple as a count, which would be of almost no use to genealogists.  We are most interested in documents that include social and economic information but, at a minimum, surnames.  We are used to seeing first and last names, age, residence, family relationships, and occupation, and more in U.S. Federal Census records.  Our earlier censuses only name heads of household, reverting to a count of others by age range and gender.  Bearing the foregoing in mind, the minimum information a document needs to present in order to be counted in our survey includes surname, date or date range, and a specific location and is a complete listing of those meeting the criteria for inclusion.

Here is the link to the Excel Spreadsheet form to be:

    a) downloaded to your computer, 

    b) completed (Fill in ALL the blanks, or type N/A in any blank that is inapplicable (to avoid misunderstanding) 

    c) attached (the completed spreadsheet) in an Email to Linda MacLachlan.



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