If your family line runs through Virginia, this database is worth a look. Referencing approximately 65,000 individuals from all parts of Virginia, information included dates from 1600 to 1900. Here you have all five volumes of Genealogies of Virginia Families, a collection of family history articles compiled from 84 years of The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography.
You will find many lines of descent traced through seven or eight generations, covering three or four centuries.