Virginia Genealogy Resources
Virginia Genealogical / Historical Organizations
- Library of Virginia
- Using the Collections
- Genealogical Research
- Research Guides & Bibliographies
- County and City Research in Virginia
- Virginia Memory
- Chancery Records Index
- Legislative Petitions Digital Collection
- Lost Records Localities Digital Collection
- Making History: Transcribe (voluntary transcription)
- Out of the Box blog (archives blog)
- To Be Sold: The American Slave Trade from Virginia to New Orleans
- Symposium Panelist Information and Publications
- Virginia Chronicle (online newspaper collection)
- Virginia Heritage Project (Manuscripts & Archival Collections)
- African American History Sites
- Local Historical Societies in Virginia
- VA-ROOTS, Library of Virginia’s genealogy listserv
- Virginia Historical Society
- Unknown No Longer (Slavery Database)
- Virginia Baptist Historical Society
- Virginia Genealogical Society
- List of Virginia Genealogical and Historical Societies
- USGenNet Index to Virginia Genealogical & Historical Societies
Online References / Records
- FamilySearch.org
- VAGenWeb
- VAAfriGeneas
- Virginia African American Historic Sites Database
- Virginia Office of Vital Records
- Virginia Census Records
Virginia History
- Encyclopedia Virginia
- Virginia Center for Digital History
- Interactive Map of Virginia County Formation History
African-Americans / Free People of Color
- African American Gateway (Friends of Allen County)
- Free African Americans of Virginia, NC, SC, MD and DE
- The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865 (1915) (free PDF, EPUB)
- VAAfriGeneas
- Virginia African American Historic Sites Database
Organizations with Focus on African-American Genealogy
- AAHGS - Central Virginia Chapter
- AAHGS - Greater Richmond Chapter
- AAHGS - Hampton Roads Chapter
- AAHGS - Danville/Pittsylvania County Chapter
- AAHGS - Burke Brown Steppe Chapter