I am researching my Northern Neck roots (that sounds weird!) hoping to be able to prove a link to Jamestown before the 2007 celebration. Not easy because the Stafford courthouse was burned during the Civil War, as was the plantation with the family bible with the extensive family tree. (Durned Yankees!)
Learned yesterday that there is an old Peyton family cemetary near Colonial Beach that has 40-50 graves with no legible markers. God only knows who is buried there -- could be the master and the mistress, could be the slaves, could be someone passing by. Nobody is going to exhume them any time soon.
But they are digging up people in Jamestown.
My roots go back to the Northern Neck too. There is a record of one of my ancestors getting married in Westmoreland County in 1641.
Have you visited Stratford Hall yet? It's well worth a visit, especially in the Fall.