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American Civil War Museum

Richmond, Virginia.

Annandale Family History Center

Archival Resources of the Virginias (formerly Virginia Heritage)

A consolidated database of finding aids that provides information about the vast array of manuscripts and archival materials housed in Virginia and West Virginia.

Center for Baptist Heritage & Studies and the Virginia Baptist Historical Society at the University of Richmond

Chesapeake Virginia Family History Center

Digital Library of Appalachia

Provides online access to archival and historical materials related to the culture of the southern and central Appalachian region. The contents of the DLA are drawn from special collections of Appalachian College Association member libraries.

Digital State Archives - Virginia

Documenting the American South

Sponsored by the University Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, this is a a digital publishing initiative that provides Internet access to texts, images, and audio files related to southern history, literature, and culture. Currently DocSouth includes sixteen thematic collections of books, diaries, posters, artifacts, letters, oral history interviews, and songs.

Earl Gregg Swem Library at the College of William and Mary

Williamsburg, Virginia.

Edward H. Nabb Research Center for Delmarva History & Culture

Salisbury, Maryland.

FamilySearch - FamilySearch Center Locator: Virginia

From the FamilySearch web site. Includes address, telephone number and hours of operation.

FamilySearch Catalog

From the FamilySearch web site, an online catalog to the holdings of Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah. Microfilm loans can be ordered and then sent to your local Family History Center.

Hampton Roads Naval Museum

Norfolk, Virginia.

Hottel Keller Memorial, Inc.

HKMI is a non-profit educational organization, dedicated to the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of our early Germanic immigrants into the great valley of Virginia, through museum and living history exhibits and programs, archives and genealogies, for the members of the organization and the general public.

James Madison University - JMU Libraries

Kegley Library

The Kegley Library is a special collection of local history and family history housed in the Wytheville Community College Library, Wytheville, Virginia. It is the result of a personal library that was bequeathed to WCC by noted historian Frederick Bittle Kegley in 1968. The original collection contained books, pamphlets, newspaper clippings, census records, manuscripts, WPA documents, journals, photographs, and maps. Since its inception the collection has grown considerably. Once housed in a small room off the main library in Bland Hall, the Kegley Library now resides in a reading room and vault room in the Smyth Hall main library. The collection now includes over 5,000 books, 150 manuscript collections, 8,000 photographs, 500 maps, 9 cabinets of vertical files, 19,000 tombstone inscriptions, and 140 subject albums. A comprehensive collection of local newspapers, court and census records on microfilm, and oral history collection also are housed here.

LibDex - The Library Index - Virginia

A worldwide directory of links to library homepages and web-based OPACs (Online Public Access Catalogs).

Library of Congress - Search results for Virginia

Library of Virginia

Library of Virginia - Making History (Transcribe)

Help improve access to historic documents by transcribing handwritten pages and reviewing transcriptions from the collections of the Library of Virginia.