Birth records typically give the child's name, date of birth, place of birth (or where recorded), parents' names, parents' places of birth, and reference source volume, page and line number. Marriage records typically give the bride's and groom's places of origin, date and place of marriage, bride's and groom's ages and places of birth, whether this is the first marriage, and bride's and groom's parents' names, followed by reference source volume, page and line number. Death records typically give the decedent's date and place of death, place of birth, parents' names, and reference source volume, page and line number. Contains the following records: births for the years 1737 through 1863; deaths for the years 1737 through 1857; marriages for the years 1737 through 1857; and baptisms for the years 1800 through 1816. Nearly all of the information falls between 1737 and 1857, but a few vital records go back as far as 1654. This volume has a new fullname index (containing roughly 6,000 to 10,000 names) to ease research.

This is the story of the ancestors of Charles E. Roseberry and Betty Jean Keister. Charles Roseberry's parents were Charles Wesley Roseberry and Elizabeth Clancy Sutton of Radford, Virginia. Charles Wesley Roseberry was born in Newbern in Pulaski County, VA and his ancestors were from there going back to 1872 when his grandfather, Samuel Roseberry, moved from Carroll County, VA. The Sutton family was also from Pulaski County, VA. Elizabeth's great-grandfather, John C. Sutton was born in Montgomery County, VA in the part that would later become Pulaski County. Betty Jean Keister's grandparents were Walter Henderson Keister and Ida May Foster of Radford, Virginia. Walter was born in Montgomery County, VA where his ancestors had lived since 1800. The Foster family was from Prince William County, VA but Ida May's line had lived in Monroe County, VA since before 1795 when it was Greenbrier County, VA.