The next program in the Virginia Heritage Resource Center's Mining the Treasure House lecture series will be held at noon on Tuesday, 16 October 2007 in the conference rooms adjacent to the lobby of the Library of Virginia at 800 East Broad Street in downtown Richmond. Researcher and writer Martha McCartney of Williamsburg will discuss and sign Virginia Immigrants & Adventurers, 1607-1635: A Biographical Directory, her well-documented account of more than 5,000 of Virginia's earliest English settlers-the ordinary men, women, and children whose efforts enabled America's first permanent English colony to become viable. Through primary sources McCartney will relate the basics about many of these original colonists: their origins, the names of the ships they sailed on, the names of the "hundreds" and "plantations" they inhabited, the names of their spouses and children, their occupations and their positions in the colony, their relationships with fellow colonists and Indian neighbors, their living conditions as far as can be ascertained from documentary sources, their ownership of land, the dates and circumstances of their death, and a host of fascinating, sometimes incidental details about their personal lives. There is free underground parking for Library patrons but please note that space is limited. For more information on this and other programs and services of the Library of Virginia please visit the Library's web site at http://www.lva.lib.va.us <outbind://65-00000000FAF2995E801ABA4380EA9EDD8A7F570607002EE077F2D8CAD5 4B9D67CA7D81E110E9000000AC1E4F00002EE077F2D8CAD54B9D67CA7D81E110E9000000 BB51790000/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://www.lva.lib.va.us/> or call 804-692-3592. To subscribe, change options or unsubscribe please see the instructions at http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-hist.html <outbind://65-00000000FAF2995E801ABA4380EA9EDD8A7F570607002EE077F2D8CAD5 4B9D67CA7D81E110E9000000AC1E4F00002EE077F2D8CAD54B9D67CA7D81E110E9000000 BB51790000/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/v a-hist.html> or http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/va-roots.html <outbind://65-00000000FAF2995E801ABA4380EA9EDD8A7F570607002EE077F2D8CAD5 4B9D67CA7D81E110E9000000AC1E4F00002EE077F2D8CAD54B9D67CA7D81E110E9000000 BB51790000/exchweb/bin/redir.asp?URL=http://listlva.lib.va.us/archives/v a-roots.html>