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
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