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Forgotten History - Virginia Plantations

Genealogy Quest - Virginia Sheriffs, 1699

Sankofa-gen Wiki - Virginia

Sankofa-gen Wiki is a growing collection of freely accessible genealogical and historical data pertaining to U.S.A. antebellum plantations, farms, factories, manors, etc. that used African slave labor. This site is a wiki which means that you, the slave genealogy researcher, can add and update information instantly. This website aims to summarize plantation-related data in a way that allows the genealogist to better visualize the lives of our enslaved ancestors within a historical context.

Virginia Museum of History & Culture - Plantations

Virginia State Elected Officials Database

Online searchable database of Virginia governors and members of the legislature from 1776 to the present.

Virtual Jamestown - Indentured Servants - Search the Bristol Registers of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686

This database of indenture contracts includes over 10,000 indentured servants contracts from four different registers. The contracts indicate not only the servant's name and length of indenture, but also the name of the servant's parents and owner, his home province and city, occupation, destination, and ship of embarkation. These records provide a detailed composition of indentured servants in the 17th century Atlantic World. Bristol, 1654 - 1686, Middlesex, 1682 - 1685, London I, 1682 - 1692, London II, 1718 - 1759.