Jo White Linn, The Rowan County Register. This authorative genealogical journal is written and published quarterly by Jo White Linn, an eminent genealogist in Rowan County, North Carolina. To subscribe send $25.00 per year to Rowan County Register, P.O. Box 1948, Salisbury, NC 28145-1948. Back issues are available. (Note: Some will remember her interesting lecture at the 1989 Conference in Salisbury on the Great Wagon Road, Chronicles, Vol. III:4:109-129.)
Enocks, Richard A., Rowan County, NC, Vacant Land Entries, 1778-1789, 1988 (order from author and publisher, 8221 Forsythia Ct., Indianapolis, IN 46219, price $30 plus $2.00 handling.) This is a most valuable research aid for early Rowan County, NC. Jo White Linn, C.G., has given The Eller Chronicles permission to publish her Prolegomenon (Foreword) from the above publication--- to appear in a future publication -- this describes a fifteen year period (1763-1778) when settlers in Rowan County had no way to enter land because all land offices were closed and they were forced to become "squatters". The earliest Eller and Biffle families in Rowan County acquired some land without becoming entangled in the problem but as the following abstracts show other Eller and Biffle land were involved:
"#3068, no date, 1778, Leonard Eller 300 A on both sides of Sheit's Crk., adj Widow Bower, & Valentine Beard, including his improvements." (p. 233).
"#1124, 28 Jul 1778, Cunrod Coygher 400 A on waters of Dutch Second Crk adj Killian Aronhart, Lopewaser, Melcher Eller & Lambly's Improvements, including his own Improvement's" (pg. _?__ - failed to record.)
"#1442, 29 Aug 1778, Philip Knatzer 200 A adj lines of Jacob Eller; Adam Beffle; Henry Aginor, Jun'r; & slough including his own Improvements." (p.88.)
Deed: "#1211, 3 Aug 1778: Charles Hartman 200 A adj Mculloh's line on S side of Yadkin & Christian Ellor, including his own improvements [10:374]." (p. 88).
#2063, 9 Feb 1779, John Wilson 200 A on the waters of Reedy Crk including the Improvements of Peter Eller [10:73]" (R.A. Enocks, Indianapolis, 1988, p. 1470)
Deed: #2189, 13 May 1779, David Woodson 640 A on S side Yadkin R adj Jacob Ellor & Henry Eustace McCulloh. Made over to Peter Lance, Sen'r." p. 157."
A recognized weakness of some material published in The Eller Chronicles from the viewpoint of professional genealogists is the lack of adaquate documentation of the
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sources from which information was obtained. This was one of several publication problems that led to the following recommendation in the EFA Long Range Plan: That an Advisory Editorial Committee of at least three be appointed by the President to assist the Editors of The Eller Chronicles in planning and implementation of a program of quality control for any EFA sponsored publications. After this recommendation was approved and became policy, it became the stumbling block that precipitated problems within the Board. We hope the new Board will move to implement this policy.
A recommended text:Lackey, Richard S., Cite Your Sources - A Manual for Documenting Family Histories and Genealogical Records, Polyanthos, New Orleans, 1980. This is the only book known to have been published exclusively for the use of genealogists on how to document all sources of information used in genealogical publications. Widely recommended as a reference book by professionals, the book contains numerous examples on how to cite sources from all kinds of records. The author says his purpose for the manual, "is to provide genealogists with an uncomplicated, yet academically acceptable guide to basic citations.
A second publication problem yet to be addressed has to do with the general subjects of evidence and proof.
Stephenson, Noel C., Genealogical Evidence, Aegean Park Press, P.O. Box 2837, Laguna Hills, CA 92654. Sub title: A Guide to the Standard of Proof Relating to Pedigrees, Ancestry, Heirship and Family History. This gets to the most crucial questions of genealogy. What is evidence and how is it classified? How does one judge the credibility of evidence? What is ultimate proof and can it ever be obtained? What is meant by "the preponderance of evidence." These are all questions that mean different things to different genealogists, especially amateur genealogists like all of us in the EFA membership.
CONSOLIDATED BIBLIOGRAPHIESThe Eller Chronicles 1987-1995 . . . . . . J. Gerald Eller ibid, Washington Eller ( John, George, Christian) and His Descendants, (EC III:4:182-193). (1.20) ELLER, J.W., The Eller Family, 1918. - Family of John Eller (George, Christian) and Susan Smith Eller and their descendants in Indiana. [Reprint] (ECVII: 3: 176-212).(3.70) |
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| POWERS, Harvey, W., Descendants of Christian Eller (Draft-. Research in Progress Report), (EC VIII:3: 1-42, Special Edition).(4.30) |
| STANLEY, Clarice V. Eller, A New Record for Christian Eller of Rowan Co., NC, (EC VIII:2: 126) (.10) |
Immigrant George Michael Eller of Frederick Co., MD |
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Immigrant Henry Eller of Frederick Co., MD |
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Immigrant Jacob Eller of Rowan County, NC |
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Jacob and Magdalene Eller of Botetourt (Roanoke) Co., VA |
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