VIRGINIA COUNTIES:

VIRGINIA State/County/Local Government Sites 

VIRGINIA GenWeb Site. -- VIRGINIA Archives FTP Site. -- VIRGINIA Msg Boards.

VA. Census Project1. -- VA. Census Project2.--FHL 1880 Census Extraction.

 VIRGINIA  LIBRARIES

Cyndi's Lists for VIRGINIA

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VIRGINIA STATE ARCHIVES (& Library of Virginia) -- {Homepg.}

• Browse online Catalog 
• Colonial and Early Land Records of Virginia and West Virginia. (Descriptions of...)  These records document ownership of and title to real property.  They include:  deeds, patents and grants, plats and surveys, processioners' returns, and land tax books.
  •  Archives and Manuscripts Catalog - the main access point for archival and manuscript land related records in private papers and state records.
  • Land Office Patents and Grants Database - database including patents and grants from the crown and commonwealth from 1623 to 1992 (images available online).
  • Land Office Grants, Northern Neck Grants - database of grants in the Northern Neck Proprietary from 1692 to 1862 (images available online).

VIRGINIA CEMETERIES (current) LOCATORS/MAPS:

Because there are so many counties of Virginia, You will need to fill out the Topozone Map Search form to locate the Cemeteries for the county of interest...

• Leave Name box empty...
• Select State: 'VA'
• Select Type of place to find: 'Cemetery'
• Select County: (your county of interest).
• Click on Search for results

Click here to proceed to the Search Form for Topozone.

VIRGINIA CENSUS ON-LINE.

(also see below Virginai Tax Records....)

VIRGINIA CHURCH RECORDS --  (see VITAL RECORDS SECTION below...)

VIRGINIA CHURCHES (current) LOCATORS/MAPS:

Because there are so many counties of Virginia, You will need to fill out the Topozone Map Search form to locate the Churches for the county of interest...

• Leave Name box empty...
• Select State: 'VA'
• Select Type of place to find: 'Church'
• Select County: (your county of interest).
• Click on Search for results

Click here to proceed to the Search Form for Topozone.

VIRGINIA Court Records Collections by County/City at Library of Virginia that are microfilmed and avail. thru Interlibrary Loan (ILL) thru your public Library (make sure they have a microfilm reader avail...)

Chalkley's CHRONICLES OF THE SCOTCH-IRISH SETTLEMENT IN VIRGINA -- using the Augusta Co. Court Records, 1745-1800.  (has an index in each volume...)

HISTORY & HISTORICAL E-BOOKS:

• The History of Virginia, from its earliest Settlement to the present time. (T.S. Arthur & W.H. Carpenter) (Phila., Lippincott, Grambo & Co., 1852.)
• History of Virginia, in four parts. (R. Beverley) (Richmond, J.W.Randolph, 1855 Reprint of an 1722 Book...)  See Table of Contents...
• History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia. (C. Campbell) (Phila., Lippincott & Co., 1860).  See Table of Contents & Comp. Index (pt.753+).
• Sketches & Recollections of Lynchburg by the oldest inhabitant. (M.C. Cabell). (Richmond, C.H. Wynne, 1858).
• Statistical Gazetteer of the State of Virginia, embracing important topographical and historical info. from recent and original sources, together... (R. Edwards)  (Richmond, n.p., 1855).  See Subject index (pg53++).
• Historical and descriptive sketches of Norfolk and vicinity, inc. Portsomuth and the adjacent counties, during a period of two hundred years. (W.S. Forrest)  (Phio.; Lindsay & Blakiston, 1853).  See Table of Contents and comp. index (pp.489++).
• Virginia, esp. Richmond, in by-gone days; with a glance at the present. ...  (S. Mordecal)  (Richmond; West & Johnston, 1860).  See Table of Contents...

Documenting The American South (E-Books @ Univ.NC at Chapel Hill).-- Great Site...

Born in Slavery: Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project, 1936-1938 contains more than 2,300 first-person accounts of slavery and 500 black-and-white photographs of former slaves. These narratives were collected in the 1930s as part of the Federal Writers' Project of the Works Progress Administration (WPA) and assembled and microfilmed in 1941 as the seventeen-volume Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States from Interviews with Former Slaves. This online collection ... and includes more than 200 photographs... << STATEs LIST  >>

VIRGINIA MAPS:

• Maps of each individiual Virginia County (from the 1895 Map scanning...)

VIRGINIA TAX RECORDS:

• "1790" / "1800" County Tax Lists of Virginia

VIRGINIA (IGI) VITAL RECORDS EXTRACTIONS --  Select County t/b researched below..

Just enter SURNAME only (or no Surname for all), and select Region: North America, then CLICK ON 'search'....

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