Virginia Research Links

County Resources:
Charles City County Records


Court Records:
Court Records Digest in cooperation with the Clerk of the Circuit Court for the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia
"Pre-1914 court papers located in the Circuit Court for the City of Fredericksburg, Virginia, ...  a database containing the names of primary parties (plaintiffs, defendants, deponents, petitioners, etc) has been created by the Records Conservation Project. Also included in the database are Remarks on the contents of records containing documents of historical or genealogical significance. Over three thousand records containing Remarks are presented in the Court Records Digest."

Library of Virginia Website:

 Home Page

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/

Using the Collections

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/using_collections.asp

Best Sources for Virginia Research by Time Period

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/time.htm

Virginia Heritage

http://vaheritage.org/

Alphabetical Listing of guides, indexes, and research databases.

LVA Site Index

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/siteIndex.asp

COLLECTIONS A TO Z

http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/collections_a_to_z

E-Early Virginia Religious Petitions=Browse by place-Albemarle-pg 4 has signatures.

W-War of 1812- see page 2 Citizen claim to property

COLLECTIONS BY TOPIC

http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/collections_by_topic

Patents and Grants

http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/C7M9D6EXMSP6GQESCJ1EQIF1L6E731CSAN9NJJGSQKT31QB3BP-11286?func=file&file_name=find-m-lva01

Digitized Military Records

http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/QXPNDQV6QQPYX33YT94H5APBDD8I7QA3BVCSY43J5C8NR8IDIR-15982?func=file&file_name=find-b-mlt&local_base=mlt

What’s New in Digital Collections?

http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/whats_new

Library Acquisitions

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/news/collections/AA-2015-2Q.pdf

Virginia Colonial Records Project

An index to nearly 15,000 reports that survey and describe documents relating to colonial Virginia history that are housed in repositories in Great Britain and other European countries. The survey report images are available online, and there are references to microfilm reels for the original documents. The Electronic Index contains more than five-hundred thousand (500,000) personal- name and ship-name entries.

About the Colonial Records Project

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/vcrpabout.htm

Records

http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas27&local_base=CLAS27

Lost Records Localities Digital Collection

http://digitool1.lva.lib.va.us:8881/R/45GHCBQDDX9YRUMK7S52PQDSRI1Y8KAMSG9MDAX79YC4MU5VLG-03357?func=collections&collection_id=1503

Burned Jurisdiction Records Database -Single Name or Party Search Results

About:

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/burned_juris/

Database

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/burned_juris/nameresults.asp

Deatherage Bibles

Basic Search: Archives and Manuscripts

http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/91L3P9S67BPISC984PGTD39S3MJVDX85X3H5EHBK6JMYJKPHKG-24782?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas05&local_base=CLAS05

or

http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/91L3P9S67BPISC984PGTD39S3MJVDX85X3H5EHBK6JMYJKPHKG-24782?func=find-b&find_code=WRD&request=deatherage

Historical and Genealogical Societies in Virginia

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/historical.asp

Lost Records Collection

Lost Records Localities Digital Database Search Page:

http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/lost?_ga=1.140826804.747593120.1425578334

Chancery Records Index

Research notes about chancery records

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/rn22_chancery.pdf

There are over 233,000 cases indexed in the database and nearly 8 million images of chancery causes available online.

Chancery Index & Information

Chancery Search Page

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/chancery/default.asp#res

Virginia Memory Page:

http://www.virginiamemory.com/collections/

Wills and Administrations

http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/willsabout.htm

The Virginia Newspaper Project

http://virginiachronicle.com/

Best Sources for Virginia Research by Time Period

Military:
Civil War Veterans Buried in Fairfax County (Virginia)

List of the revolutionary soldiers of Virginia. Special report of the Department of Archives and History for 1912   by Virginia State Library. Archives Division Eckenrode, H. J. (HamiltonJames),, 1913

The War of the Rebellion: a Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies. United States. War Dept.

ONLINE LIBRARY of the REVOLUTIONARY WAR

http://lib.jrshelby.com/index.htm#wtexts

Miscellaneous:
Colonial Williamsburg

Encyclopedia Virginia

Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 : records of the State enumerations: 1782-1785, Virginia

Immigrants Service Database
Courtesy of Price and Associates Inc.

Library of Virginia Research Guides

The Memorial Foundation of the Germanna Colonies in Virginia
To"make known the history of the Virginia Germanna Colonies, their operations under the patronage of Alexander Spotswood, his residence and activities at Germanna and in the surrounding area."

Thomas Balch Library - Leesburg, Virginia 

Virginia Historical Society

Virginia Memeory Project: Digital Collections

Virginia Military Institute

Online Historical Class Rosters: Search the cadet rosters. In some case there is family information included as well as military service. There are some photos.

Virtual Jamestown

 Blacjsheep Ancestors 
http://www.blacksheepancestors.com/index.shtml 

Atlas of Historical County Boundaries

Many Virginia Religious petitions are available om the Library of Congress website. Maybe you can find the actual signature of your ancestors. 

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/collections/petitions/placeH.html

Slavery:

Digital Library on American Slavery, University of North Carolina at

Greensboro

"The Digital Library offers a searchable database of detailed personal information about slaves, slaveholders, and free people of color. Designed as a tool for scholars, historians, teachers, students, genealogists, and interested citizens, the site provides access to information gathered and analyzed over an eighteen-year period from petitions to southern legislatures and country courts filed between 1775 and 1867 in the fifteen slaveholding states in the United States and the District of Columbia."