List of Genealogy Books and Articles by Vanessa Wood
Books
Vanessa Wood, Board in Venice: Stories of the House, The Landlords, and The Boarders at 3981 Wade Street in Venice California (Newtown, Conn.: Design to Spec LLC, 2025). [read more]
Vanessa Wood, Pryor Wives: Stories of Family, Fortune, and Fiasco (Newtown, Conn.: Design to Spec LLC, 2023). [read more]
Vanessa Wood, Notable Americans of the 1930 Census (Newtown, Conn.: Design to Spec LLC, 2003).
Articles
2026
Vanessa Wood, “William Thomas Rule (1868-1957): A Biographical Sketch of a Montana Early Settler,” First Place in Missoula [Mont.] Public Library’s Family History Writing Contest. Available on the Montana State Library website.
Vanessa Wood, “Anne ‘Augusta’ Simon, New Canaan’s Hometown Artist, Connecticut Genealogical Society’s magazine, Connecticut Genealogy News, Winter 2025-2026.
Vanessa Wood, “Members of The Good Templars Lodge #637 at Dry Fork, Sumner County, Tennessee,” Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy & History 39 (Winter 2025).
Vanessa Wood, “Vera Sinclair’s Friends from Englewood High School,” The Colorado Genealogical Society, The Colorado Genealogist 87 (February 2026), 8.
2025
Vanessa Wood, “Tailor, Saloon Keeper, Grocer: Nashville Native John “Oly” Eckhardt (b. 1860),” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 72 (Winter 2025), 223-229.
Vanessa Wood, “Murder, Mercy, and Multiple Scribes: Analysis of the 1809 Wilson County Petition for Zebulon Baird,” Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy and History 40 (Fall 2025).
Vanessa Wood, “Five Families from Hawkins Co. Tennessee: Their 1850s Migration to Pulaski Co., Kentucky,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 72 (Fall 2025), 151-159.
Vanessa Wood, “Written in His Hand: William Pryor’s Journey from Tennessee to Texas Through Signature Evidence, Middle Tennessee Journal of Genealogy and History 39 (Summer 2025), 3-8.
Vanessa Wood, “Two Doctors and A House: Dr. Andrew J. Harris and Dr. Clara E. (Olds) Harris, Osteopaths in Nashville, Tennessee,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 72 (Summer 2025), 70-78.
Vanessa Wood, “Edith ‘La Reina’ Rule (1902-1973): Hollywood Psychic and Genealogist,” California Genealogical Society, The California Nugget (Spring 2025), 4-11, and 17.
Vanessa Wood, “The Children of William Wood (1783-1852): The Hairdresser of Sheerness, Kent,” Kent Family History Society Journal (U.K), Vol. 17, June 2025, 660-663.
Vanessa Wood, “Freeman Modglin or Truman Modglin? One Man, One Name, and A Two-Hundred-Year-Old Error,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 72 (Spring 2025), 48-52.
2024
Vanessa Wood, “Five Tips to Write as You Research,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 71 (Winter 2024), 6-13.
Vanessa Wood, “Kate (Blundy) Moore’s Boarding House in Venice, California,” California Genealogical Society, The California Nugget (Fall 2024), 8-13, and page 22.
Vanessa Wood, “Elizabeth (Talley) Pryor (1825-1865) – A Descendent of The Talley Family in Sumner County, Tennessee,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 71 (Fall 2024), 6-13.
Vanessa Wood, transcriber, “A Letter from Avery M. Keesee to Austin L. Green, 1848,” Virginia Genealogical Society, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 62 (May 2024), 89-92.
Vanessa Wood, “Becoming Holsey: The South Carolina Origins of the Holsey Family of Baltimore,” Maryland Genealogical Society Journal 64 (2024), 215-243. [read more]
Vanessa Wood, “Elizabeth (Chegwidden) Pryor of Wendron: The Lawful Wife,” Cornwall Family History Society (U.K.), journal 192 (June 2024), 22-23.
Vanessa Wood, transcriber, “Index of Names from ‘Lost’ Virginia Newspapers (1798),” Virginia Genealogical Society, Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 62 (February 2024), 24-35. [read more]
2023
Vanessa Wood, “The J. Prior in Nashville Penitentiary in 1860 Was Jonathan Pryor (born 1820-1830),” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 70 (Spring 2023), 42-50 (page number in digital publication). Available in Kinship Papers: Volume 1
Vanessa Wood, “Two Locations, One Person: Elizabeth (—?—) Pryor Harris from Campbell County, Virginia to Anderson County, Tennessee in 1830,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 70 (Summer 2023), 36-45. Available in Pryor Wives
Vanessa Wood, “Mourning (Thompson) Pryor White (born about 1760): A Witness for Joseph Pryor in Wilson County,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 70 (Spring 2023), 23-29. Available in Pryor Wives
Vanessa Wood, “The Williams Family Who Disappeared from Illinois into Unorganized Territory,” Illinois State Genealogical Society, The Quarterly 55 (Spring 2023), 20-28. Available in Kinship Papers: Volume 1
2022
Vanessa Wood, “Who Were John and Massey (Taylor) Pryor’s Children?,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 69 (Winter 2022), 7-17. Available in Kinship Papers: Volume 1
2021
Vanessa Wood, “Two Men Named John Pryor: White County, Tennessee, in 1817,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Magazine: Ansearchin’ News 68 (Spring 2021), 26-30. Available in Kinship Papers: Volume 1
Vanessa Wood, “William C. ‘W. C.’ Gregory (1818-1870): A Court Error Recorded His Death in 1860,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 68 (Summer 2021), 34-30. Available in Kinship Papers: Volume 1