Welcome to our Genealogy Web Site

This site contains genealogical information about our ancestors and their descendants. 

We are:

Clarice and Joe Burval

1995 Parkwood Road

Charleston, West Virginia 25314

Telephone: (304) 346-2093

About Us

We have been actively researching our family history for nearly 30 years.   Our practice has been to identify as many of our direct ancestors and their families as we can using proven genealogical research methods.   A major part of our research is to seek and identify as many of the descendants of our direct ancestors as we can.  We thus seek to include descendants from current living generations.   If you are a descendant of any the families in this genealogy we would be most interested in adding your branch to this genealogy. Please contact us.

How to use this web site

If you know the name of the individual you seek use the Master Index, Surname Index or Site Search in the horizontal menu bar at the top of the page.   By clicking on an individual's name in the Master Index you will be taken to the Person Page of that individual.  The Person Page contains most of what we know about the individual such as dates and place of birth, marriage, death, and burial as well as biographical notes, photo's and other information.  Sources of this information is included in Citation footnotes.  The parents, spouses and children of the individual are also named and by clicking on the name you will be taken to the Person Page of that individual.    This allows one to browse backward in time to identify the individual's ancestors via either parent or browse forward to learn more about the individuals children.  A "Pop-up Pedigree" button is also included which shows the parents and grandparents of the individual which can also be used to browse backward in time.

Also on the individual Person Page is a listing of Family Charts that that individual is on.   This identifies the Family that person is associated with.   By clicking on the Family Chart listed you will be taken to that families chart and can browse it to look for other related family members.  A word of caution: The Charts are usually quite large and may take several minutes to download on slow connections.

Also on the individual Person Page is a relationship statement indicating the progenitor from which the individual descends and his/her relationship to that progenitor. By clicking on the progenitors name you will be taken to that progenitor's Person Page.   Suggestion: By browsing what is known about the progenitor, his children and grandchildren one can quickly obtain information about the early history of that family. This is especially true if there is biographical information on those early ancestors which there usually is.

Now Available - Second Printing - 2006 Publication

Benedictus Townsend of South Carolina

Compiled By: Joseph T. and Clarice T. Burval

This book focuses primarily on two of Benedictus Townsend (1710-1769)'s four known sons and their descendants. The sons are John Townsend (1740-1786) and Light Townsend (1745-1817), Revolutionary War patriot and soldier respectively, who lived in Craven County (now Marlboro County), South Carolina during the Revolutionary War.  This book concludes 20 years of research the compilers have worked on this family's genealogy and includes all the descendants of these two sons born before 1900, which the compilers were able to identify.  This 442 page book contains over 2800 direct descendants of Benedictus Townsend in eleven generations who lived in Georgia, Florida, Kentucky and South Carolina. There is a name index of over 4500 names related to this family. Extensive footnotes citing sources of information, appendixes and exhibits of selected documents are included.  Click here for ordering information. 

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