Brendon Burns
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- Non-Research Specialties
- Author/Writer
- Blogger
- Compiler/Indexer
- Historian
- Photographer
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- Research Specialties
- Colonial
- Court Records
- Heir Searcher
- Historical Sites
- Land Records
- Lineage Societies
- Moravians
- Polish American
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- Research Counties
- Albany County, New York, United States
- Alleghany County, North Carolina, United States
- Ashe County, North Carolina, United States
- Calvert County, Maryland, United States
- Carroll County, Virginia, United States
- Charles County, Maryland, United States
- Dutchess County, New York, United States
- Floyd County, Virginia, United States
- Grayson County, Virginia, United States
- Monroe County, New York, United States
- Montgomery County, Virginia, United States
- Ontario County, New York, United States
- Orange County, New York, United States
- Patrick County, Virginia, United States
- Rensselaer County, New York, United States
- Smyth County, Virginia, United States
- Surry County, North Carolina, United States
- Tazewell County, Virginia, United States
- Ulster County, New York, United States
- Washington County, Virginia, United States
- Watauga County, North Carolina, United States
- Wayne County, New York, United States
- Westchester County, New York, United States
- Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States
- Wythe County, Virginia, United States
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- Research Provinces / States
- Connecticut, United States
- Kentucky, United States
- Maryland, United States
- Massachusetts, United States
- New York, United States
- North Carolina, United States
- Pennsylvania, United States
- Tennessee, United States
- Virginia, United States
- West Virginia, United States
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- Research Countries
- Germany
- Netherlands
- Poland
- Switzerland
- United States
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- Research Time Periods
- 17th Century
- 18th Century
- 19th Century
I am currently a professional genealogist working with the NSDAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) in Washington, D.C. At the DAR, I am a team leader in addition to a staff genealogist. My research specialities include Virginia Revolutionary War services, bounty land research, and Rev War service research for New York and Long Island. Additionally, I am a part-time artist and former crew (rowing) coach for Virginia Tech, American University, and for a masters program in Washington, D.C. A native of Virginia Beach, Virginia, I have been studying my own family history since I was nine years of age, and have almost 25 years of experience in genealogy (over seven years, professionally). I currently devote most of my time to genealogical research. I am a 2014 graduate of NIGR (now Gen-Fed).
Services
Freelance genealogy with focus on families of Appalachia, particularly within a 100-mile radius of Grayson County, Virginia. However, my research does expand beyond that to most colonial Virginia families and mid-Atlantic research in the 18th century, and 18th and 19th century New York genealogy. Due to my own heritage and recent successes in the research, I have begun expanding on Polish research, particularly for families immigrating prior to 1900, and now help put together some Polish family research in western and central Poland (Poznan/former Prussia specifically). I regularly transcribe and abstract land and court records, and am willing to do the same, or hunt down original copies, for clients. I do also have some research with German, Swiss, and Dutch research, though, for the present time (due to my focus in the Rev War period and research), I am NOT accepting research requests for these geographic areas at this time.
Please note: due to my job at the DAR as a senior genealogist, I CANNOT assist with lineage applications for the DAR (either applications or supplementals). I can work on specific lineage issues as needed.
Geographic Specialties
MD, MA, NY, NC, PA, VA, New England, Mid-Atlantic, South
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- Degrees
- B.A. (Public and Urban Affairs, Urban Planning), B.A. (Studio Art)
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- Languages
- Basic German (reading only); Can read some German script, Basic Latin (reading only with some translation), Polish (basic)
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- Repositories
- Ancestry.com, National Archives, County Courthouse, DAR, Library of Congress,FamilySearch.org; Newspapers.Com; GenealogyBank; Library of Virginia; Maryland Archives; Pennsylvania Archives; New York Archives
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- Lectures
- NSDAR: Proving Residence During the American Revolution (June 2020); Valley Forge Park Alliance: Researching Your Revolutionary War Ancestor (June 2021); Research in Grayson County, Virginia (July 2022); NSDAR: Revolutionary War Research in New York and Long Island (June 2023)
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- Publications
- Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds 1 & 2: 1793-1811, Including Unrecorded Deeds 1793-1840; Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds, Vol 3 (1811-1818); Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds, Vol 4 (1818-1824); Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds, Vol 5 (1824-1829); Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds, Vols 6 & 7 (1830-1838); Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds, Vols 8 & 9 (1838-1850); Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds, Vol 10 (1849-1855); Grayson Co, Virginia Deeds, Vol 11 (1855-1862); Grayson County, Virginia Genealogical References: Genealogical Extracts from Court, Land, and Military Records and Other Sources: 1793-1870; Abstracts of the Land Records of Albany Co, New York: 1774-1797, Including the Tax Lists of 1779; Abstracts of the Land Records of Westchester Co, New York: 1774-1801, Including the Tax Lists of 1779; Filed Deeds Pertaining to the Military Townships of New York: Owed To The Veterans of the New York Line and Canadian Refugees in the American Revolution; Grayson County, Virginia Genealogical References, vol. 2: Genealogical Extracts from Court, Land, and Military Records and Other Sources: 1793-1870; The Loyal and Doubtful: Index to Acts of British Loyalism in the Greater New York and Long Island Area, 1775-1783 (1st Series, 5 vols)
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- Certificates
- National Institute of Genealogical Research, 2014 (now Gen-Fed)
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- Affiliations
- Polish Genealogical Society of America; Virginia Genealogical Society; Grayson County, Virginia Genealogical Society
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- Blog
- vtcrewcat.wordpress.com/
Contact
- Business site: virginiagenealogist.wordpress.com/
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