1918 Pandemic, by Susan DuBar–Today’s pandemic has frequently been compared to the 1918 flu epidemic. I had a cousin who died in the epidemic at the age of six. I knew about her through photographs and frequent references to her in her mother’s and aunt’s conversations. She and my father were double first cousins and were constant playmates but I never thought to ask my father how her death affected him.

Also in my family was a maternal cousin, Earl, who was a small-town pharmacist during the 1918 epidemic. I learned only recently about him when I found a newspaper article (one of those “human interest” stories) my grandmother had preserved. It was interesting to learn how few medicines were available then….

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Contents of the Spring/Summer 2021 issue:

• Try a New Approach for Genealogy Research During [the] Pandemic, by the Augusta (GA) Genealogical Society… page 1
• Original Versus Derivative, by Michael john Neill… page 2
• John Burnley vs. William Crenshaw, Louisa County, VA, 1801… page 3
• 1918 Pandemic, by Susan DuBar… page 4
• Marriage Announcements in the Daily Progress (Charlottesville, VA)
  May-July 1895, transcribed by Diane Inman… page 5
• Division of the Slaves of Thomas Jackson, dec’d., Louisa County, VA
  February, 1802… page 13
• Joel Parrish & Wife v. Executors of David Shepherd, et al.
  Fluvanna County, Virginia, 1806-1808… page 15
• List of Amelia County (VA) Sheriffs, 1735-2021… page 17
• List of Greene County (VA) Sheriffs, 1838-2021… page 18
• List of Appomattox County (VA) Sheriffs, 1845-2021… page 19
• Cary Family (Virginia and Maryland) by Jean L. Cooper… page 20
• Charles William Cary (20 Sep 1826-23 Aug 1852), by Jean L. Cooper… page 22
• Estate of Elias Palmer, dec’d., Campbell County, VA, 1833-34… page 23

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