Outside of Alabama resources, we have more in our collection on Virginia than just about any other state. We have over 800 materials related to Virginia Genealogical Resources. I thought this would be a great time to focus on those many Virginia resources. I am going to focus on materials that cover the entire state of Virginia or geographic regions of Virginia. To give some scope of the size of the Virginia collection, we have 84 records in the computer just on basic Virginia books, of those 84 records at least one call number with 11 different books contained within the particular record. We have so much on Virginia because so many settlers in Alabama, came from Virginia.
The first book that I want to highlight is Virginia’s Colonial soldiers by Lloyd DeWitt Bockstruck, this book provides a great deal of information on those who fought in Virginia’s Colonial Militias. A larger volume spanning 443 pages, this is a must for doing any type of colonial Virginia research and it is one of my most used books in the Virginia section. Lloyd Bockstruck is a noted genealogist and former head of the genealogy section at the Dallas Public Library so this is an author who knows his stuff.
The second book I am going to highlight is in multiple editions but covers early Virginia settlers and again is used frequently. Adventurers of purse and person, Virginia, 1607-1624/5 compiled and edited by John Frederick Dorman. With multiple generations featured this book should not be missed when working with early Virginia records.
Instead of a third book, I am going to highlight a call number, LH 929.3755 Vir contains a number of different Virginia records including Bible records, marriage records and early will records. This call number has 15 different records and is one of my most popular sections with the Virginia record set.
The next book I want to highlight is a two volume set titled Virginia colonial abstracts / by Beverley Fleet. This set is wonderful for its’ coverage of early Virginia Vital Records.
The final set of books that I see get used frequently is Cavaliers and pioneers; abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants, 1623-1800 Abstracted and indexed by Nell Marion Nugent. Introd. by Robert Armistead Stewart. Patroness, Agnes Bernadine Sitterding. . This set of 7 volumes plus a supplement is a must for anyone doing land record research in Virginia.
These are just a small sampling of the many resources for Virginia research, I encourage everyone to come and check out the collection!
I must include one web link that I found shortly after I finished the blog: http://mosga.blogspot.com/2015/09/virginia-genealogy-fast-facts.html, a big thanks to the Missouri State Genealogical Society for posting this link.
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