Ms. Janet.  I am sure I join all in offering my sincere condolences; I am sorry about your Mother.  

I agree that my numbers are likely much higher than reality will reveal, and that those materials available are really a much lower percentage.  I also agree that the greatest single category of unabstracted records likely are the deeds, and those are so critical to in-depth research by every one of us.

I do truly hope your comments and mine cause some folks to totally and forever abandon the silly notion that they are able to do their research wholly within the internet; it just ain't so.  Paul      
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  ....for which almost nothing has been abstracted at all in terms of deeds, wills, court records.  There is one small volume that has abstracts of the first and maybe second will books.  Online at the website is Carol Morisson's abstract of the first Court Order Book., etc.   No deed abstract books, but some tax list and census abstracts are published. 

  ....However, I have found a lot of (selective) information IS available on the internet if you do searches at google.com for something like the following:   Shelton Waller deed Pittsylvania.   This will pick up a number of mostly surname websites that have these characters mixed in with their folks.    Another trick is when you get your google or other search results to click on the cached version, which will highlight in different colors your search terms. 

  .... Paul, if I didn't read your original numbers correctly let me know. 


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