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Welcome to Virginia, Old Dominion

Featured content

• Early Virginia Religious Petitions, 1774-1802
• Compiled Records for Mid-South Research
• Virginia Blacksheep Ancestors
• Virginia Pioneers

Did you know?

• Over 4 million brief citations (name, date, and source) to manuscripts, periodicals, and books are provided in Fremont Rider's (editor) American Genealogical- Biographical Index. Vols. 1-186+. Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library, 1952-. (Family History Library films beginning with 1698167) Many of the records of headright grants and land purchases in Virginia to 1749 have been indexed and published in Nugent, Nell Marion Nugent's Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. 5 vols. Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Print.: Virginia State Library: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1934, 1963, 1977-1979, 1994. (Family History Library film 1320779 item 5)  Vol. 1 has 1623-1666, vol. 2 1666-1695, vol. 3 1695-1732, vol. 4 1732-1741, vol. 5 1741-1749. The Library of Virginia can be accessed at http://www.lva.lib.va.us/.
• A hustings court is a citywide jurisdiction that heard minor civil and criminal cases and equity, probate, and orphan matters. Independent cities, such as Richmond, had hustings courts. In 1850, the hustings courts were replaced by the corporation courts.
• An Index of Nineteenth Century Virginia Room by Room Inventories - http://departments.umw.edu/hipr/www/inventories/virginia/19cva.htm

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 Dunmore Elizabeth City Essex Fairfax Fauquier Fincastle Floyd Fluvanna Franklin Frederick Giles Gloucester Goochland Grayson Greene Greensville Halifax

Hanover Henrico Henry Highland Illinois Isle of Wight James City Kentucky King and Queen King George King William Lancaster Lee Loudoun Louisa Lunenburg Madison Mathews Mecklenburg Middlesex Montgomery Nansemond

Nelson New Kent Norfolk Norfolk (Lower) Norfolk (New) Norfolk (Upper) Northampton Northumberland Nottoway Orange Page Patrick Pittsylvania Powhatan Prince Edward Prince George Prince William Princess Anne Pulaski Rappahannock Rappahannock (Old) Richmond

Roanoke Rockbridge Rockingham Russell Scott Shenandoah Smyth Southampton Spotsylvania Stafford Surry Sussex Tazewell Warren Warwick Washington Westmoreland Wise Wythe Yohogania York

Independent Cities

Alexandria Bedford Bristol Buena Vista Charlottesville Chesapeake Clinton Forge Colonial Heights

Covington Danville Emporia Fairfax Falls Church Franklin Fredericksburg Galax

Hampton Harrisonburg Hopewell Lexington Lynchburg Manassas Park Martinsville Newport News

Norfolk Norton Petersburg Poquoson Portsmouth Radford Richmond Roanoke

Salem Staunton Suffolk Virginia Beach Waynesboro Williamsburg Winchester

Counties now part of West Virginia

Barbour Berkeley Boone Braxton Brooke Cabell Calhoun Clay Doddridge Fayette

Gilmer Greenbrier Hampshire Hancock Hardy Harrison Jackson Jefferson Kanawha Lewis

Logan Marion Marshall Mason McDowell Mercer Monongalia Monroe Morgan Nicholas

Ohio Pendleton Pleasants Pocahontas Preston Putnam Raleigh Randolph Ritchie Roane

Taylor Tucker Tyler Upshur Wayne Webster Wetzel Wirt Wood Wyoming

Counties now part of Kentucky

Bourbon Fayette

Jefferson Lincoln

Madison Mason

Mercer Nelson

Woodford

Extinct or ceded Counties or Cities

Illinois Dunmore Elizabeth City Fincastle

Kentucky Manchester Nansemond

Norfolk Norfolk (Lower) Norfolk (New)

Norfolk (Upper) Rappahannock (Old) South Boston

South Norfolk Warwick Yohogania

Research tools

Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is by using the United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System. David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures. The Virginia GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States. Access Genealogy: Virginia Genalogy has a wealth of resources.

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