Virginia
          Genealogy Research

             

          VAGenWeb Projects and Support Sites

          • Hening's Statutes at Large
          • Lyon Gardiner Tyler's "Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography" Transcription project in work
          • VA Directory of the USGenWeb Archives
          • Migrations
          • Virginia Queries View Posted Queries for "Unknown" County
          • Statewide Lookup Volunteers
          • Virginia Surnames Online
          • VA Cities, Counties and Towns
          • Research Tips, Courtesy of Carmen Finley
          • Rules for hosting a VAGenWeb Site
          • Online Genealogy Bookstores
          • Bed and Breakfasts Lodging in Virginia

          Civil War

          • Fredricksburg and Spotsylvania, National Military Park
          • VAGenWeb Civil War Query Page
          • Virginia Military Institute's Civil War Collections
          • The Valley of the Shadow
          • Museum of the Confederacy, Richmond VA.
          • Point Lookout, Maryland A POW Camp where many Virginian's were held during and after the Civil War
          • United States Colored Troops

          Vital Records

          • VA Department of Health
          • The Records Project - Encyclopedia for State/Local Records

          Statewide Lookup Volunteers

          Consider adding yourself to the list
          When contacting volunteers, fully explain WHY

          • 11th Virginia Infantry, with roster, by Robert T. Bell, VA Regimental History Series [Civil War]
          • 1880 Census, one individual/family per request
          • 1900 Census, one individual/family per request
          • Early Virginia Marriages, Edited by William Armstrong Crozier, 1953.
            • Includes Fauquier, Sussex, Charles City, York, Southhampton,Lancaster, King George, Amelia, Middlesex, Elizabeth City, Augusta, Lunenburg, Westmoreland, Rockbridge, and Surrey counties.
            • The offerer, Carla Frazier, asks that you please specify which county, and the full names of parties looked for.
          • Marriages on CD-ROM , one marriage per request
          • Men in Gray Interments Vol. IX (9), Virginia Cemetery Series by Thomas M. Spratt
          • Morris, Orange, and King William Artillery w/ rosters, VA Regimental History Series [Civil War]
          • New York Times, newspaper back-issues to 1929.
            Postage & copy costs
          • Planters of Colonial Virginia, by Wertenbaker, includes 1704-1705 rent rolls.
          • Virginia's Colonial Soldiers, by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, 1988 (Keep requests "reasonable")
          • Washington Post newspaper back-issues to 1971.
            Postage & copy costs

          "For Fee" Researchers/Lookup Offers

          • Virginia Death Certificates, 1912-1939

          Researchers For Hire

          These links are included as a courtesy to researchers.
          We have not verified costs or reliability.
          Please contact the individuals sites for more information.
          • Genealogy Quest
          • Julian H. Preisler
          • W. Scott Smith, Historical more than genealogical
          • Marc D. Thompson

          Other Virginia Research Sites

          CEMETERY LINKS

          • The Old City Cemetery Lynchburg
          • USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - Virginia
          • Virginia Gravestone Photo Project

          CENSUS LINKS

          • USGenWeb Archives Census Project - Virginia
          • Virginia Census Images Online
          • Mailing Lists devoted to Census Lookups for each state

          Genealogical and Historical Societies Online

          GENEALOGY LINKS

          • Virginia Genealogical Society Queries
          • Afro-American Souces in Virginia
          • African American mailing list
          • Ancestors at Rest. Funeral cards, coffin plates, obituaries, family bibles, and other miscellaneous death records.
          • County of Charles City Center for Local History
          • Chronicles of the Scotch Irish In Virginia Augusta County
          • DAR Library
          • Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive, results of search on VA connection
          • Early VA Tax Lists
          • Early VA and WV Genealogy
          • Eastern Shore Heritage website
          • Eastern Shore miscellanea
          • Family History Centers in Virginia
          • Chesapeake Family History Center
          • Freemasons, Grand Lodge of Virginia
          • GEDCOM's online: A collection of GEDCOMs submitted to the site, and links to GEDCOMS at other websites. Organized by State and locality.
          • Genealogy Research Institute of VA
          • Golden Lyon Genealogical Research (Lower Eastern Shore)
          • Melungeon Information Exchange
          • Naturalization Records, presented by Olive Tree Genealogy
          • Ohio River Valley Families
          • Shenandoah Country Rag
          • Tidewater Virginia Families
          • Detailed Virginia Resources

          HISTORY

          • Archiving Early America
          • Burned Counties of Virginia
          • Henricus, Virginia's 2nd Settlement
          • Jamestowne Society
          • Jamestown Rediscovery
          • Legal Questions/Answers in Colonial Virginia
          • Virginia's Lost Covered Bridges
          • Living History in VA
          • Native American Historical Collection, by "AccessGenealogy"
          • VA/PA border
          • VA War Memorial, WWII and after. Searchable database, and "digital rubbings".

          LIBRARIES

          • Alexandria Library, Online exhibits
          • Alexandria Library, Collection Guide
          • Chesapeake Central Library
          • Handley Regional Library Winchester, VA
          • James Madison University - Carrier Library
          • Library of Virginia
          • Virtual Library of Virginia
          • Kirn Memorial Library, Norfolk, VA
          • Old Dominion University Library
          • Portsmouth Public Library
          • Rappahannock County Library
          • Shenandoah County Library
          • The University of Virginia Library
          • Virginia Tech University Libraries
          • Washington and Lee University Libraries
          • The College of William and Mary - Swem Library

          MAPS, Finding That Place in Virginia

          • Animated U.S. Map of Counties
          • Which county is that town in? - The University of Virginia's GNIS Free Search
          • Color Landform Atlas Satelite Images
          • Historical Counties. Printable, large-scale maps of every boundary change of every county and independent city of Virginia. From the Newberry Library.
          • U. of GA, Historical Map Collection
          • U.S. Gazetter Find that town in the U.S.

          NEWSPAPERS

          UNIVERSITY GENEALOGICAL HOLDINGS

          • Virginia Military Institute Archives

          VITAL RECORDS INFORMATION

          • Virginia Vital Records Information

          Unindexed sites (page under construction)

          • Live chats on IRC for Virginia Researchers. The #Virginia channel will meet Mondays at 1300 GMT (that's 9am here in VA), on IRC Server irc.iigs.org. and on Thursdays at 19:00GMT (that's 3pm eastern time).

          Genealogy WebSites

          • Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites (Virginia) on the Internet
          • Genealogy Quest Collections
          • The RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative
          • Virginia Directory of Discovering Family Histories
          • Slave Listing
          • Information for Genealogists from Public Record Office -London, England
          • Tazewell County Virginia Families and Ancestors

          Genealogy Research Tips/Tools

          • Research Tips, Courtesy of Carmen Finley, Augusta County coordinator
          • Electronic Census Spreadsheets
          • Census Spreadsheets and Analysis Tool for the earlier census listings

          Search Engines

          • WorldConnect - Connecting Gedcoms

          Genealogy Bookstores Online

          Helpful Sites for Online Researchers

          • ePodunk - Links to information about every county and community.
          • Preserving your Photographic Heritage
          • Repositories of Primary Sources
          • Time Capsule - 20th Century

          Page maintained by Freddie L. Spradlin

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