The Miles Files, Version 9.0, May 2009, contains over 53,000 names from the Eastern Shore counties of Accomack and Northampton, Virginia and Worcester and Somerset, Maryland. It also includes the first 6 generations of descent of the First Families of Virginia from the Jamestown era (listed in the Muster of 1624/5) that settled in these four Eastern Shore counties. These individuals can easily be identified by the numbers placed in parentheses "(--)" between their given name and surname, which are the numbers used by John Frederick Dorman in the 3 volume set of Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5, 4th Edition, 2004-2007, published by the Genealogical Publishing Co, Inc, Baltimore, MD, in collaboration with the Order of First Families of Virginia. There are about 3,600 persons so identified.
The information is organized with links from generation to generation, complete with source notes and an every name index. Your web browser will give you the ability to view the entire file, including the master index, surname index, family information, sources and pop up 3-generation pedigrees for each individual in a hypertext format. By simply clicking on underlined names or text you can jump from person to person, generation to generation, to the families of the spouses, to the sources of information, or to the name index. This ability to navigate through the large amounts of information presented makes it easy to understand not only individual relationships and their direct ancestors, but the interrelationships between the many families presented. It is estimated that a full paper version of these files would be over 25,000 pages.
Living individuals are not shown here. However the authors do have information in their master database on an additional 8,800 living individuals. Those who would like to offer additional information, make recommendations for changes, correct errors, etc. should contact the compilers. If you want to contribute information for future releases of the Miles Files, please be prepared to provide some form of source documentation for any data before 1900. The compilers will attempt to verify the sources and then quote the original sources. If they cannot verify the sources, but still chose to include contributed data, they will cite the contributors as the source of the information. In this case, please provide your full name and mailing address. They are constantly updating and expanding their database from contributed information as well from their research.
They plan to publish a new version about once a year, both on the web and on CD. The CD will run within your web browser, just as it does on the Internet, but at much faster speeds, depending on your Internet connection speed.
For further information, contact either: Barry W. Miles, 6641 Whitesburg Rd., Snow Hill, MD 21863, 410-651-4158 or Moody K. Miles, III, 13568 Adrian Ct., Woodbridge, VA 22191, 703-328-2898. Barry and M.K. Miles are 3rd cousins, originally from Saxis Island, upper Accomack County, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay side of the Eastern Shore near the MD/VA line.
The information is organized with links from generation to generation, complete with source notes and an every name index. Your web browser will give you the ability to view the entire file, including the master index, surname index, family information, sources and pop up 3-generation pedigrees for each individual in a hypertext format. By simply clicking on underlined names or text you can jump from person to person, generation to generation, to the families of the spouses, to the sources of information, or to the name index. This ability to navigate through the large amounts of information presented makes it easy to understand not only individual relationships and their direct ancestors, but the interrelationships between the many families presented. It is estimated that a full paper version of these files would be over 25,000 pages.
Living individuals are not shown here. However the authors do have information in their master database on an additional 8,800 living individuals. Those who would like to offer additional information, make recommendations for changes, correct errors, etc. should contact the compilers. If you want to contribute information for future releases of the Miles Files, please be prepared to provide some form of source documentation for any data before 1900. The compilers will attempt to verify the sources and then quote the original sources. If they cannot verify the sources, but still chose to include contributed data, they will cite the contributors as the source of the information. In this case, please provide your full name and mailing address. They are constantly updating and expanding their database from contributed information as well from their research.
They plan to publish a new version about once a year, both on the web and on CD. The CD will run within your web browser, just as it does on the Internet, but at much faster speeds, depending on your Internet connection speed.
For further information, contact either: Barry W. Miles, 6641 Whitesburg Rd., Snow Hill, MD 21863, 410-651-4158 or Moody K. Miles, III, 13568 Adrian Ct., Woodbridge, VA 22191, 703-328-2898. Barry and M.K. Miles are 3rd cousins, originally from Saxis Island, upper Accomack County, Virginia, on the Chesapeake Bay side of the Eastern Shore near the MD/VA line.