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

• Rosters & Pension Applications, Southern Campaign
• List of VA Revolutionary Soldiers
  from Virginia County Record, W. Armstrong Crozier
  provided by: Laura Durham

• Civil War Veterans buried in Kansas and parts of Missouri. Database of tombstones, obituaries, biographies. Searchable by the name of the State from which they served, or which was otherwise mentioned in the record.
• Fredricksburg and Spotsylvania, National Military Park
• VAGenWeb Civil War Query Page
• 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
• 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
• Mailing Lists devoted to Census Lookups for each state

Genealogical and Historical Societies Online

GENEALOGY LINKS

• 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
• The DAR Genealogical Research System (GRS)
• 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
• Freedman's Bureau Letters, search on Virginia
• 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)
• Library of Virginia, Microfilms available through Inter-Library Loan
• Melungeon Information Exchange
• Naturalization Records, presented by Olive Tree Genealogy
• Ohio River Valley Families
• Shenandoah Country Rag
• Tidewater Virginia Families
• Detailed Virginia Resources
• Virginia facts and VA county facts with other useful links.

HISTORY

• Archiving Early America
• Henricus, Virginia's 2nd Settlement
• Jamestowne Society
• Jamestown Rediscovery
• Legal Questions/Answers in Colonial Virginia
• 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
• Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg, VA
• Chesapeake Central Library
• James Madison University - Carrier Library
• Library of Virginia
• Organizational Records Guide
• Chancery Records
• 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

• 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

• Homicide among Adults, Virginia, 1607-1900, Compiled by Randolph Roth
• 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.
• Repositories of Primary Sources
• Time Capsule - 20th Century

Page maintained by Freddie L. Spradlin

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