Virginia Genealogy Resources

• Library of Virginia
  • Using the Collections
  • Genealogical Research
  • Research Guides & Bibliographies
  • Virginia Memory
  • Virginia Newspaper Project
  • African American History Sites
  • Lost Records Localities Database
  • VA-ROOTS, Library of Virginia’s genealogy listserv
• FamilySearch.org Research Wiki
  • US Census 1940 - Virginia
  • Virginia Wiki
  • Virginia African Americans Wiki
  • Virginia Cohabitation Records
  • Records Coverage by County/Locality
• Virginia Historical Society
  • Unknown No Longer (Slavery Database)
• Virginia Genealogical Society
• African American Gateway (Friends of Allen County)
• Free African Americans of Virginia, NC, SC, MD and DE
• Encyclopedia Virginia
• Virginia Census Records
• Virginia Genealogical and Historical Societies
• VAGenWeb
• VAAfriGeneas
• Virginia Office of Vital Records
• Virginia African American Heritage Program
• USGenNet Index to Virginia Genealogical & Historical Societies
• Virginia Center for Digital History
• Virginia County Boundary Changes (1634-1920)
• The Free Negro in Virginia 1619-1865 (1915) (free PDF, EPUB)

Virginia African-American Genealogy Groups

• AAHGS - Central Virginia Chapter
• AAHGS - Greater Richmond Chapter
• AAHGS - Hampton Roads Chapter
• AAHGS - Burke Brown Steppe Chapter