Poythress Reference and Primary Records Sources: Virginia

The database table below contains approximately 200 primary record and historical reference sources mentioning the Poythress surname (or variants). All contribute to understanding Virginia’s early history. And should be a useful guide for original study of Poythress family histories. The WorldCat catalog link provides an authoritative bibliographic reference and a tool for locating the publication.

Some of these documents may be in public domain digital formats and available from sources such as the Internet Archive, JSTOR, Hathitrust Digital Library and the Library of Virginia Digital Collections or available as e-books if they’re still in print — for example, Iberian Publishing Company’s catalog of e-books for Virginia and other Southern States. And many of these sources can be found in the Family History Library network. A quick way to check availability in the Family History Library is to enter your location as Utah when using the WorldCat link.

The origin of this curated list of source materials is a document shared by longtime contributor John (Maynard) Poythress. But knowing Maynard, I suspect he collaborated with a number of other Poythress family historians — consider it a group effort. We have tried to enhance the original document by providing full citations and linking to the WorldCat resource to aid in locating and learning if there are other formats, editions, etc. With your help, we can expand this resource with additional known records pertinent to Poythress family genealogical research and discovery.

Note: The Filter Table field (upper right of table) will filter based on one or more search terms such as Deed, Tax, Will, County, Author, etc. Here is a downloadable PDF version of this source list.