The Southern Churchman, a weekly journal representing the evangelical thought within the Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America, was founded in 1835 by the Rev. William Fitzhugh Lee in Richmond, Virginia. This work, the Index to Marriage Notices in the Southern Churchman points to a recording of the marriages, over a period of 106 years, of approximately between six and seven thousand persons, most of who were either members of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Virginia, or otherwise directly connected with it, or connected with it through descent from Virginia...