Prince / Printz Family History

An interesting insight I had while doing the research in the microfiche room of the National Archives in DC was that a lot of the Printz/Prince family documents were not stored there because they happenened before the US federal government was established in 1789.  Major documents like land deeds and such are instead held by the Commonwealth of Virginia, which did exist before the US federal government was set up.  The Library of Virginia has a great website with lots of great old documents listed, some of which have images available online.  You can find that by going to www.lva.va.gov and clicking on the "Search the LVA Catalog" link.  If you type in "Printz" you will find references to dozens of items, some of which are clickable.  You may also want to search for any names using the Prince spelling as well, as that sometimes is how it is listed.  I found images for old deeds for the family homesteads.  I highly recommend visiting it as part of your research.