Virginia
Statehood: 25 June 1788
10th state of the United States
Bordering states:
North: Maryland, Washington, D.C.
South: North Carolina, Tennessee (SW)
West: Kentucky, West Virginia (NW)
Capital: Richmond
Largest city: Virginia Beach
Map: Colton’s Virginia, 1861
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Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division
Personal Library
Commonwealth of Virginia
Also available online
Tidewater
Halifax County
Institutions, Societies, and Government Websites
Library of Virginia, Collections
South Central Virginia Genealogy Society
The UncommonWealth, Library of Virginia
Virginia Museum of History and Culture
Goochland County
Goochland County Historical Society
Halifax County
Halifax County Historical Society
Lancaster County
Mary Ball Washington Library and Museum
Loudon County
Loudoun County Microfilm lists, Library of Virignia
Loudoun Museum Online Collection
Research & Reference,
Thomas Balch Library, Leesburg,
Additional Websites
The Douglas Register (Ancestry)
Record Sets-State Level
Virginia Record Sets (Ancestry Collections)
Virginia Record Sets (Family Search)
Vital Records
Virginia, U.S., Extracted Vital Records, 1660-1923 (Ancestry)
Virginia, U.S., Birth Records, 1912-2015, Delayed Birth Records, 1721-1911 (Ancestry)
Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1700-1850
(Ancestry)
Virginia, U.S., Marriage Records, 1936-2014
(Ancestry)
Virginia, U.S., Select Marriages, 1785-1940 (Ancestry)
Virginia, U.S., Marriages of the Northern Neck of Virginia, U.S., 1649-1800 (Ancestry)
Virginia, U.S., Deaths and Burials Index, 1853-1917 (Ancestry)
Virginia, U.S., Death Records, 1912-2014 (Ancestry)
Virtual Libraries
Commonwealth of Virginia
The Vestry Book and Register of Bristol Parish, Virginia, 1720-1789, Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, 1898.
Southside Virginia Families, John Bennett Boddie, 1955.
Searchable on Ancestry
Southside Virginia Families, vol. 2, John Bennett Boddie, 1956.
Southside Virginian, vol. 12, no. 1, 1994.
Kent County
The Parish Register of Saint Peter’s, New Kent County, Virginia from 1680 to 1787, no. 2, 1904.
Newspapers
Chronicling America, digitized: Virginia
Community History Archive Newspapers: Virginia
Small Town Newspapers
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Maps
Virginia Historical Inventory Maps, Library of Virginia, Digital Collections
Virginia Maps, Library of Congress
Virginia Landowner Maps, Library of Congress
Interactive Map of Virginia County Formation History, Maps of U.S.
Historical Maps Works: Virginia
Manuscripts
Virginia Manuscripts, Archive Grid
List of Virginia Counties
Accomack, Albemarle, Alleghany, Amelia, Amherst, Appomattox, Arlington, Augusta, Bath, Bedford, Bland, Botetourt, Brunswick, Buchanan, Buckingham, Campbell, Caroline, Carroll, Charles City, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Clarke, Craig, Culpeper, Cumberland, Dickenson, Dinwiddie, Essex, Fairfax, Fauquier, Floyd, Fluvanna, Franklin, Frederick, Giles, Gloucester, Goochland, Grayson, Greene, Greensville, Halifax, Hanover, Henrico, Henry, Highland, Isle Of Wight, James City, King And Queen, King George, King William, Lancaster, Lee, Loudoun, Louisa, Lunenburg, Madison, Mathews, Mecklenburg, Middlesex, Montgomery, Nelson, New Kent, Northampton, Northumberland, Nottoway, Orange, Page, Patrick, Pittsylvania, Powhatan, Prince Edward, Prince George, Prince William, Pulaski, Rappahannock, Richmond, Roanoke, Rockbridge, Rockingham, Russell, Scott, Shenandoah, Smyth, Southampton, Spotsylvania, Stafford, Surry, Sussex, Tazewell, Warren, Washington, Westmoreland, Wise, Wythe, York