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
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).
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.
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.
Vanessa Wood, “The Williams Family Who Disappeared from Illinois into Unorganized Territory,” Illinois State Genealogical Society, The Quarterly 55 (Spring 2023), 20-28
2022
Vanessa Wood, “Who Were John and Massey (Taylor) Pryor’s Children?,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Ansearchin’ News 69 (Winter 2022), 7-17.
2021
Vanessa Wood, “Two Men Named John Pryor: White County, Tennessee, in 1817,” Tennessee Genealogical Society, Magazine: Ansearchin’ News 68 (Spring 2021), 26-30.
Vanessa Wood, “William C. ‘W. C.’ Gregory (1818-1870): A Court Error Recorded His Death in 1860,” The Tennessee Genealogical Society, Magazine: Ansearchin’ News 68 (Summer 2021), No. 2, 34-30.