Virginia Genealogy Research

• 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

• 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

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

• 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

• Virginia Death Certificates, 1912-1939

• Genealogy Quest
• Julian H. Preisler
• W. Scott Smith, Historical more than genealogical
• Marc D. Thompson

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).

• 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

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

• WorldConnect - Connecting Gedcoms

• 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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