Greetings !! This website was created with the specific objective of providing a venue for viewing much of the contents of the Master Linville Family genealogy database. This database contains much of the Linville information from Dr. Alice Eichholz's 50+ years of research and publications on Linville family genealogy. In addition, the genealogy research from around 100 other Linville family members has been integrated into this master Linville Family genealogy database. It is the largest single collection
This database was originally created from the contents of Dr. Alice Eichholz's book, "The Linville Family in America", that was published in 1982. After attending the 1997 North Carolina Linville Family Reunion in Belews Creek, NC, Harvey K. Linville from the Seattle, WA area volunteered to perform the data entry work involved in creating a digital copy of the genealogy contents of Dr. Eichholz's book. In fact, he did it twice to identify as many data entry errors as possible. Mike Linville then took Harvey
Since the 1982 version of "The Linville Family in America" was a research summary of what Dr. Eichholz had been able to uncover at that point in time, it still had many remaining unknowns and conflicts that needed additional information to resolve. Dr. Eichholz decided to focus her subsequent Linville research on the early generations of the Linville family in America which had the largest challenges - mostly prior to 1850. Dr. Eichholz had started a publication, Linville Roots Newsletters, in 1977 that ran