• Abstracts from Loudoun County, Virginia Guardian Accounts: Books A-H, 1759-1904 - (Book - Amazon.com) : Abstracts taken from the microfilm available from The Library of Virginia covering Guardian Accounts Books A (1759-1823), B (1823-1837), C (1838-1852), D (1853-1859), E (1859-1870), F (1869-1875), G (1875-1886) and H (1886-1904). 2000, 137pp., 8½x11, index. -

• Advertisements for Runaway Slaves in Virginia, 1801-1820 (Studies in African American History and Culture) - (Book - Amazon.com) : This collection of runaway slave notices from Virginia highlights the plight of African Americans fleeing bondage in early nineteenth century Virginia. Presented in modern type, the advertisements appear exactly as published. The preface situates these advertisements historically, and indicates the significance of the collection for studies of African American history, the history of slavery, and resistance to slavery in early American culture. The advertisements are presented chronologically and index by slave and master. This collection of historical documentation will be valuable to scholars interested in the history of slavery and resistance in America.
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• Alexandria Country Virginia Free Negro Registers, 1797-1861 - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• An Old Virginia Court - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Being a Transcript of the Records of the First Court of Franklin County, Virginia, 1786-1789. With Biographies of the Justices and Stories of Famous Cases, Annotated, Glossarized and Indexed. -

• Cemeteries of the City of Hampton, Virginia, Formerly Elizabeth City County - (Book - Amazon.com) : The first settlement of Kecoughtan, now Hampton, was established in 1610. The earliest names in this work are contained in "A List of the Dead in Virginia since April Last (April 1622) Feby 16th 1623 At Elizabeth Cittie." Contains histories and inscriptions from more than eighty cemeteries, including African American, slave, Confederate Prisoners of War, veterans, church, and many family cemeteries. Many photographs show graveyards and old tombstones -

• Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography - In 5 Volumes - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The five-volume Encyclopedia of Virginia Biography is a collection of biographical sketches of thousands of Virginians who lived between the early seventeenth century and the twentieth century. -

• Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginia (2 Vols in 1) - (Book - Amazon.com) : This book is a consolidation of two Bulletins of the U.S. Geological Survey. It consists of extensive alphabetical lists of Virginia and West Virginia place names (more than 12,000 altogether) and assists the researcher in pinpointing a particular ancestor in a specific locality. Places listed include post villages, towns, counties, mountains, rivers, and other notable topographical features. Most places are identified in relation to a county, and are thereupon described with even greater detail and refinement.
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• Genealogic and Historical Notes on Culpeper County, Va - (Book - Amazon.com) -

• Genealogical Records of Buckingham County, Virginia - (Book - Amazon.com) : Owing to the total destruction of the county courthouse in 1869, few records of Buckingham County, Virginia survive. Nevertheless, with an eye out for her own Buckingham County ancestors, Mrs. Edythe R. Whitley, over the past fifty years, has doggedly collected every scrap of information on the county that could be unearthed. The results of her lifelong interest can be found in this work, the only collection of genealogical source records on Buckingham County ever published. Read more... -

• Genealogies of Virginia Families : From The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography (5 Volumes) - (Books - Amazon.com) : This five-volume work, nearly 5,000 pages in all, contains all the family history articles to have appeared in VMHB from 1893 through 1977. The assembled articles--hundreds of them--touch on families from all parts of the Old Dominion, and the majority trace lines of descent through as many as seven or eight generations, the data covering a period of three or four centuries or more. Upwards of 100,000 Virginians are treated in these pages, each of whom is cited in the specially prepared indexes at the back of the volumes. -

• Genealogies of Virginia Families from the William and Mary College Quarterly - 5 Volumes - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The five volumes contain every family history article published in the Quarterly from the commencement of the 1st Series in 1892 until the completion of the 2nd Series in 1943, at which point genealogical contributions to the Quarterly ceased. The total output of family history articles in this 50-year period was immense. No fewer than 500 genealogies were published—nearly one-third of them in multiple installments—and these, together with a substantial number of Bible records, are reprinted here in entirety. With these five volumes the researcher has within reach a comprehensive collection of family history articles with accompanying indexes to the 100,000 persons mentioned. -

• Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine - 4 Volumes - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This multi-volume work on Virginia genealogies consists of material from Tyler's Quarterly Historical and Genealogical Magazine, a notable periodical that contained a large number of genealogies that will be of help to the researcher. A four-volume set, it has all of the family history articles, about 350, that appeared in the magazine from its inception in 1919 until its demise in 1952. This is a significant body of genealogical material, and many of the contributors were leading Virginia researchers. Also included is some miscellaneous material (Bible records, diary extracts, etc.), and a lengthy series of articles titled "Copies of Extant Wills from Counties Whose Records Have Been Destroyed," which provides basic information on numerous early Virginia families. -

• Huguenot Emigration to Virginia - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This definitive work on the Huguenot emigration to Virginia contains lists of refugees and emigrants and several passenger lists, the longest and most valuable of which is a record of baptisms at Manakin-Town, 1721-1754, which gives the names of godparents (usually relatives) and other genealogical data. An eighty-eight page Appendix contains a several-generation genealogy of each of the Fontaine, Maury, Dupuy, Trabue, Marye, Chastain, Cocke, and other families, while the index contains the names of approximately 4,000 individuals. -

• King George County, Virginia 1720-1790 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Mrs. Harris' book features chapters on the early history of King George, prominent men of the county, the courthouse, King George in the various wars, historic homes and other landmarks, etc. Of greatest interest to genealogists is a collection of King George County marriage records culled from the following sources: St. Paul's Parish Register, 1715-1787; King George County Marriage Book #1; and marriages previously published in the Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, the William and Mary Quarterly, and Tyler's Quarterly. -

• Lee of Virginia, 1642-1892 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Biographical and Genealogical Sketches of the Descendants of Colonel Richard Lee. With Brief Notices of the Related Families of Allerton, Armistead, Ashton, Aylett, Bedinger, Beverley, Bland, Bolling, Carroll, Carter, Chambers, Corbin, Custis, Digges, Fairfax, Fitzhugh, Gardner, Grymes, Hanson, Jenings, Jones, Ludwell, Marshall, Mason, Page, Randolph, Shepherd, Shippen, Tabb, Taylor, Turberville, Washington, and Others -

• Pittsylvania County, Virginia Register of Free Negroes and Related Documentation - (Book - Amazon.com) : This register (completely unknown until its accidental discovery in the County Courthouse in Chatham, VA in 1994 ), consists of a hand-written ledger which names, numbers and describes free African-Americans (and possibly other non-whites) who registered or re-registered as free persons between 16 March 1807 and 16 January 1864. It contains the names of 637 Free Negroes, the majority of which were born free in Pittsylvania Co., as well as white individuals and other non-white individuals. The earlier registrations of persons who moved to Pittsylvania Co. were also copied into the ledger. This book comprises verbatim transcripts. No text has been omitted and the original page numbers are indicated in brackets. The ledger transcripts are followed by a section of related wills and deeds, a section of census extractions (1820-1840), and 5 appendices, including sample court orders and renewed registrations. An extensive introduction provides historical context for the data, and an explanation of commonly used terms. The index includes all full names, cities, counties, countries and continents. 2001, 298 pp., append., bibl., full name + location index, paper. -

• Records of Colonial Gloucester County, Virginia - (Book - Genealogical.com) : A Collection of Abstracts from Original Documents Concerning the Lands and People of Colonial Gloucester County. 2 vols. in 1. -

• Register of Free Blacks, Rockingham County, Virginia, 1807-1859 - (Book - Amazon.com) : Encompassing the complete Register of Free Blacks of Rockingham County, this book contains more than 500 family names not only of free blacks but also of those whose wills and affidavits helped secure recognition of their freedom. 1992, 252 pp., index, paper. -

• Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants : A History of Frederick County, Virginia from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This exhaustive regional history of the parent county of nine present-day Virginia or West Virginia counties features, in addition to genealogical accounts of Shenandoah pioneers Joist Hite, Daniel Morgan and others, several hundred detailed genealogical and biographical sketches of early families of old Frederick County. -

• Surry County (Virginia) Tithables, 1668-1703 - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Surry County, Virginia, was created from James City County in 1652. It is the parent county of Sussex County. Surry County's extant tithable lists, running from 1668 to 1703, with a few years missing, constitute a span of population schedules unique for any colonial Virginia county. -

• They Went Thataway - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Composed almost entirely of abstracts of wills, deeds, marriage records, powers of attorney, court orders, church records, cemetery records, tax records, guardianship accounts, etc., this unique work provides substantive evidence of the migration of individuals and families to Virginia or from Virginia to other states, countries, or territories. -

• Tidewater Virginia Families - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Covering an incredible 375 years, this book sets forth the genealogical history of some forty families who have their roots in Tidewater Virginia, families whose very history mirrors the social development of Virginia itself. Starting with the earliest colonial settler, the origins of the following Tidewater families are presented: Bell, Binford, Bonner, Butler, Campbell, Cheadle, Chiles, Clements, Cotton, Dejarnette(att), Dumas, Ellyson, Fishback, Fleming, Hamlin, Hampton, Harnison, Harris, Haynie, Hurt, Hutcheson, Lee, Mosby, Mundy, Nelson, Peatross, Pettyjohn, Ruffin, Short, Spencer, Tarleton, Tatum, Taylor, Terrill, Watkins, Winston, and Woodson. -

• Tombstone Inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia - (Book - Genealogical.com) : The work in hand records tombstone inscriptions in 150 cemeteries, thirty-three church cemeteries, and some half-dozen proprietary cemeteries, resulting in the enumeration of perhaps as many as three thousand Orange County inhabitants, giving dates of birth and death and frequently specifying family relationships. To keep the data within practical limits, the author recorded the inscriptions of persons who either died before 1900 or were born before 1850, including, where appropriate, data on wives, husbands, and children who did not fit the criteria. In family cemeteries, of course, every headstone was transcribed. -

• Virginia Ancestors and Adventurers - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This collection of genealogical vignettes derives from a variety of miscellaneous records and documents. It attempts to prove, by a process of careful selection and evaluation, the Virginia connections of an individual or family, focusing exclusively on those persons who either moved to or from Virginia. All data originates from records in the public domain and includes materials drawn from wills, deeds, court orders, census records, tax records, birth, death, and marriage records, church records, military records, powers of attorney, and estate records. -

• Virginia and Virginians - Two Volumes - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Of enduring interest to the genealogist, fully two-thirds of the work is devoted to biographical and genealogical sketches of eminent citizens of the Commonwealth. The majority of Volume II, for example, however, is comprised of sketches of over a thousand prominent citizens who were alive at the time of the book's original publication and who were from the Virginia counties of Campbell, Pittsylvania, Halifax, Prince Edward, Nottoway, Dinwiddie, Nansemond, Norfolk, Elizabeth City, Warwick, Washington, and the City of Richmond. Almost all of these 19th-century luminaries are identified by date and place of birth, name of spouse and date of marriage, and the names of their children. In many cases the ancestry is traced back for several generations. -

• Virginia Genealogy: Sources & Resources - (Book - Genealogical.com) : This is an encyclopedic listing of Virginia sources and resources for the genealogist. -

• Virginia Shenandoah County Marriage and Cemetery Records - (Database Online - MyTrees.com) : Subscription Required - Free Preview of Search Results. -

• Warwick County, Virginia : Colonial Court Records in Transcription. Third edition - (Book - Genealogical.com) : Warwick County was one of Virginia’s original shires upon its creation in 1634. The original records of Warwick County have never been transcribed—until now. The transcriptions place upwards of 10,000 Virginia ancestors in Warwick County at a particular moment during the colonial period. -

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