Resources & Links
Alleghany County, NC
- About Alleghany County
- Alleghany County Maps
- Alleghany Historical-Genealogical Society
- Alleghany Chamber of Commerce
- Alleghany County GenWeb
- Alleghany County GenWeb Archives
- Alleghany County Rootsweb Message Board
- Alleghany Wills & Estates in the NC Archives
- Alleghany County Register of Deeds official website
- Alleghany Deed Abstracts
- Ashe & Alleghany County in the Civil War (from the Internet Archive)
- Linkpendium - Alleghany County
- New River Notes - Alleghany County
- Grandville Memorial Funeral Home Obituaries
- Family Trees from Alleghany County Heritage
Regional Resources
- New River Notes
- New River Valley Yahoo Group
- North Carolina State Archives
- South Carolina State Archives
- Library of Virginia
- Virginia Tax Records
Other Cheek Genealogy Websites
- Genforum - Cheek Surname
- Jeff Williams' Giant Cheek Database
- Donald J. Cheek
- Richard Orand Cheek
- Terry Cheek
- Forrest King (from the Internet Archive)
- Bobby J. Wadsworth
Other Families of the Upper New River Valley
- "Looking Back" by Jason Duncan - Andrews, Billings, Baugus, & many more
- Blevins Genealogical Research Page - by Owen Blevins
- Caudill Family Cabin - by Lenny Caudill, Lee & Debby Toliver, & Rob Hahn
- Linda Clifton Family Homepage - Crouse & others
- Combs &c. Families of Surry Co., NC - by the Combs Research List
- The Crouse Family - by J. Crouse
- Journal of Gentry Genealogy - by W.M. Gentry, editor
- Joines/Joynes Family History page - by Eldon Joines
- Hoppers Generations - by Harry & Denise Kern
- Pipes Genealogy Page - by Robert J. Pipes
- Poe Family in North Carolina - by William Poe
- Roberts and Elledge of Wilkes Co., NC
- Shepherd Ancestry - by Broderick Shepherd (also Irwin, Jones, Ballou, others)
- Stamper Family Project - by Golden Combs Ferguson
- Thompson Descendants - by Ron Thompson
- ToliverFamily.com - by Emma Lee Toliver, Bill Toliver, & Dr. J.D. Reeder
- Woodruff Family - by Linda Epstein
Other Families Associated with Cheeks
- Van Hoose Family - by Jean Peppers
- Van Hoose Family in America - by Joyce Lindstrom
Useful Little Sites
- 5-Clicks Screen Capture Tool - OUTSTANDING quick and easy way to "grab" images off your screen.
- USGS Geographic Names Information System - absolutely indispensable!
- Birthdate Calculator - for those confusing gravestone inscriptions.
- Inflation Calculator - how much was that property worth in today's dollars?
- On-Line Conversion - just how big are those "poles" and "rods"?
General Genealogy
- Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites - comprehensive web directory.
- Footnote - way cool site has images of original documents incl. Rev. War pensions and a lot more.
- Census Finder - a convenient directory of on-line genealogy records.
- Genealogy Agent - monitor the web for new genealogical info.
- National Archives Military Records - how to order Revolutionary War pension files.
- Genealogy Guide (U.K.) - great place to start your U.K. research.