| Title | Format | Description |
| Colonial Families of the United States of America | CD | This CD contains images of the pages of all seven volumes of George Mackenzie's celebrated Colonial Families of the United States of America, an encyclopedic collection of early American genealogies and family histories. More than thirteen years in preparation, Colonial Families treats only those families who trace their ancestry back to the Colonial Period (1607-1776). Ranging from three or four pages to ten or twenty pages or more, each family history article gives the British or European pedigree of the colonial ancestor, followed by a listing of his descendants--generation by generation--up to the time of writing, giving names, birth dates, dates of marriage and death, places of residence, occupation, and a variety of other matter. Also included in the articles are illustrations of coats of arms associated with the families. |
| Colonial Virginia Source Records | CD | Identifies 350,000 individuals in a unique collection of colonial Virginia source records, namely, wills and administrations, marriage records, family histories, tax records, newspaper abstracts, and military records. The materials drawn on in this compilation are especially useful because they were collected from local sources and cover a period of time before centralized record-keeping was established. Clayton Torrence's Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800, for example, lists the names of more than 50,000 individuals for whom wills and administrations were recorded in the various counties of Virginia, some of which are now in West Virginia. Ten books, united by a single electronic index, are included on the CD. A few are Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800; Virginia Wills Before 1799; and Index to Obituary Notices. |
| Douglas Register | Book | The celebrated Douglas Register is an indispensable compilation of births, marriages, and deaths covering the period from about 1750 to 1797, with some miscellaneous records going back to 1705. The registers are for the parishes of St. James Northam (Dover Church) and King William, but they concern individuals who were residents of the Virginia counties of Fluvanna, Goochland, Louisa, Orange, and Spotsylvania. Entries under the headings of births, marriages, and deaths are arranged alphabetically, with marriages broken into separate lists for husbands and wives. Altogether the entries exceed several thousand in number. The book further consists of lists of Huguenot settlers at Manakin-Town (King William Parish) and an index of Goochland County wills, 1728-1840, containing about 1,000 names with references to dates and locations. |
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| Frederick County, Virginia, Wills & Administrations, 1795-1816 | Book | This work contains abstracts of all wills and administrations recorded in Frederick County, Virginia, between 1795 and 1816 and refers in total to some 5,000 persons. |
| Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly | CD | Contains images of the pages of all four volumes of Genealogies of Virginia Families from Tyler's Quarterly and the multi-volume Virginia Colonial Abstracts by Beverley Fleet. The four-volume collection from Tyler's Quarterly includes Bible records and wills, as well as a very important group of articles published under the title "Copies of Extant Wills from Counties Whose Records Have Been Destroyed." Fleet's Virginia Colonial Abstracts contains an enormous variety of genealogical information pertaining to Tidewater Virginia, such as vital records of birth, marriage, and death, tax lists, court orders, militia lists, wills, and deeds. The result of extensive research in county courthouses, municipal and state archives, and private collections, this work contains some of the earliest records known to exist. The two collections refer in total to approximately 130,000 individuals. |
| Historical Register and Dictionary of the United States Army | Book | This is a complete list of commissioned officers of the U.S. from the organization of the Army, September 29, 1789, to the year of the list's original publication in 1903, giving the officers' full names and showing their services as cadets and all services as officers or enlisted men, either in the regular or volunteer service. The heart of the work, Part II, an alphabetical listing of the officers, runs to some 60,000 entries. Each entry contains a brief paragraph on the officer giving his state or country where born, state from which originally appointed, date of induction, rank, date of discharge, promotions, medals, battles participated in, and, in about a fifth of the entries, date of death after leaving the Army. |
| Hopewell Friends History, 1734-1934, Frederick County, Virginia | Book | This extraordinary compilation is divided into two parts. The historical section is a broad survey of Hopewell Meeting from its origins nine years before the creation of Frederick County. Of far greater importance to genealogists, the documentary section encompasses 200 years of Quaker records: births, marriages, deaths, removals, disownments, and reinstatements, a good many of which cannot be found in public record offices. The vital records themselves have been supplemented by rare documents, letters, diaries, and other private records. Many thousands of individuals are identified in these records, the index to which runs 225 pages and contains thousands of entries. |
| Indians in Seventeenth-Century Virginia | Book | When Great Britain colonized Virginia in 1607, the area's substantial indigenous population consisted chiefly of the Powhatan Indians, a confederation of Algonquian tribes. By the middle of the 17th century, however, most of the Indian settlements in the upper valleys of the James and Rappahannock rivers had been abandoned. By the same token, few if any Indians remained in the Virginia Piedmont as early as 1675. The purpose of this work is to offer a comprehensive summary, prior to the Indians' disappearance, of all manner of life and culture of the Algonquians and the other tribes known to have inhabited 17th-century Virginia. The author's primary focus is with the social organization of the indigenous population, and the topics covered are legion: village structure, housing, foods, hunting and fishing methods, tobacco cultivation and usage, ornamentation and decoration, tools, pottery and furniture, implements and weapons, methods of warfare, music and games, marriage and burial customs, crime and punishment, religious beliefs, seasons and festivals, and more. Supporting the narrative is a helpful bibliography. |
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| Known Military Dead During the War of 1812 | Book | The compiler surveyed the records of the National Archives, as well as many of the archives of the eighteen states in which fatalities were recorded. The end result is an authoritative list of some 3,500 known military dead of the War of 1812. The entries, which are alphabetically arranged, give the name of the deceased, his rank, the name of his company or branch of service, his date of death, and an indication as to whether the individual died in battle or as a prisoner of war. |
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| Navy Widows' Certificates | $ (7 day Free trial) database | Case Files of Approved Pension Applications of Widows and Other Dependents of Civil War and Later Navy Veterans, 1861-1910 |
| Roll of Honor: Civil War Union Soldiers | CD | Images of the pages of all 27 volumes of the Roll of Honor as well as The Unpublished Roll of Honor. These books reference the names of over 200,000 Union soldiers who were buried in national cemeteries, soldiers' lots, and garrison cemeteries. The Roll of Honor is the only official memorial to the Union dead ever published, and it remains the most comprehensive source of information on Civil War fatalities. Originally compiled by the U.S. Quartermaster's Department, it was published volume by volume as battlefield sites were surveyed, graves exhumed, and bodies identified and reburied. Information given includes the soldier's name, rank, regiment, company, date of death, and place of burial. For convenience, a name index to all 27 volumes and The Unpublished Roll of Honor is included. |
| St. Paul's Parish Register | Book | St. Paul's Parish, which occupies land in what is now King George County, was in Stafford County until 1777. Since most of the early records of Stafford County were destroyed, the 4,000 birth, marriage, and death records found in this transcription are of great importance. |
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| Southside Virginia Genealogies | CD | A compilation of several hundred family histories, each of which, typically, extends back to the colonial period in Southside Virginia. Altogether Southside Virginia Genealogies contains more than 67,000 citations, including references to about 10,000 marriages, 9,000 wills, 10,000 deeds, 3,800 land patents and grants, and 5,000 census reports, with notes on more than 1,000 members of the Virginia legislature, 230 members of Congress, and hundreds of veterans of the Revolution and the Civil War. |
| Virginia Colonial Records | CD | The largest and most complete collection of Virginia colonial records ever assembled. This Family Archive CD contains a treasure-trove of records that identify many of Virginia's earliest immigrants and settlers. From records of immigration, headright records, land and tax records, and early census records, to records of the colonial militia, vital records of birth, marriage, and death, and court records of wills, deeds, and administrations, this CD has it all -- English origins, dates and places of immigration, places of residence in the new colony, names of wives, children, and other family members, occupations, ages, military service records -- it even has the names of the earliest landholders in Virginia, lists of Virginia's original immigrants and settlers, and the names of those who were listed in the colony's first census of 1623/24. It also boasts a huge collection of records extracted from England's Public Record Office establishing the colonists' family connections with the mother country and their former places of residence, as well as deeds, wills, and other records recorded in English courts. Naming nearly a quarter-million Virginians living in the colony between 1607 and 1776, this CD is designed to simplify genealogical research by combining the images of pages of selected volumes published by the Genealogical Publishing Company with a single electronic name index which allows you to search all the volumes quickly and effortlessly. |
| Virginia Genealogies and Biographies | CD | Drawing liberally on private letters, diaries, and manuscripts, as well as church records, vital records, court records, wills and administrations, books, newspapers, and personal reminiscences, this is one of the best-documented collections of Virginia genealogies and biographies ever assembled. In general, the genealogies are augmented by will abstracts, obituary notices, manuscript entries, parish vestry and register notations, marriage notices, newspaper excerpts, gravestone inscriptions, and a great variety of biographical matter. |
| Virginia Vital Records, 1600s-1800s | CD | Contains images of the pages of the following six books which were originally published by the Genealogical Publishing Company: (1) Virginia Vital Records, (2) Virginia Marriage Records, (3) Virginia Will Records, (4) Virginia Land Records, (5) Virginia Military Records, and (6) Virginia Tax Records. Altogether the articles refer to 130,000 individuals, making this CD one of the largest existing collections of Virginia genealogical records. |
| Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800 | Book |  Reprint -- This invaluable index, by a distinguished genealogist, has long been regarded as one of the most important sourcebooks in Virginia genealogy. It lists over 50,000 names of individuals for whom wills and administrations were recorded in the counties of Virginia (colony and state), some of which are now in West Virginia. It is arranged by surname, so the entire list of wills of any given family in the state can be found under one heading. |
| Wills and Administrations, Accomack County, Virginia, 1663-1800 | Book | The abstracts of wills and administrations in this compilation were drawn from a critical study of the records of Accomack County, Virginia, perhaps the oldest county in America. These abstracts, naming approximately 30,000 individuals, were compiled with the following objectives: to locate every record of will and administration, to obtain the names of every beneficiary of an estate, to discover the degree of relationship of the beneficiary to the testator or intestate, and to discover the nature of the inheritance. |
| Wills and Administrations of Southampton County, Virginia, 1749-1800 | Book | Southampton County, Virginia, situated just above the North Carolina border, was erected from Isle of Wight and Nansemond counties in 1749. These abstracts of Southampton’s earliest will books (Books I through V) cover the first 50 years of its existence as an independent county. |
| Wills of Rappahannock County, Virginia, 1656 - 1692 | $ database | This collection of verbatim wills from 1656 to 1692 pertains to "Old Rappahannock" County. "Old Rappahannock" was formed from Lancaster County in 1656; in 1692 its land south of the Rappahannock River was re-named Essex County, while that to the north became Richmond County. Mr. Sweeney painstakingly transcribed the wills of this extinct county from scattered deed and order books at the courthouse in Tappahannock, Virginia. |
