Virginia Probate Records

Grundset, Eric G. “Inheritance in the Virginias: Laws, Customs and Sources.” 1996 NGS Conference in the States, Hobart, Ind.: Repeat Performance, 1996. Audiocassette.

Pippenger, Wesley E. Index to Virginia Estates, 1800–1865, Volume 1: Counties of Arlington (including the City of Alexandria), Fairfax, Fauquier, King George, Loudoun, Prince William and Stafford. Richmond, Va.: Virginia Genealogical Society, 2001. This is the first volume in a series which will cover the entire state. Each volume contains a list of all estate records found in the city or county will books. The primary source of the information is the Library of Virginia's microfilm; copies of these books; however, where will books are missing, other estate records may be identified and used including, when feasible, both original and unrecorded wills.

Tarter, Brent. “When ‘Kind and Thrifty Husbands’ Are Not Enough: Some Thoughts on the Legal Status of Women in Virginia.” Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 33 (1995) 79–101.

Vogt, John and T. William Kethley, Jr. Will and Estate Records in the Virginia State Library: A Researcher's Guide. Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Company, 1987.
 

Immigration: Headrights and Naturalizations

Grundset, Eric G. “Coming to Colonial Virginia: Migration Sources in Their Historical Context.” NGS National Conference in the States 1992. Hobart, Ind.: Repeat Performance, 1992. Audiocassette.

Meyer, Virginia M. and John Frederick Dorman, Adventurers of Purse and Person, Virginia, 1607–1624/5. 3rd edition. Richmond, Va.: Order of First Families of Virginia, 1987.

Ransome, David R. “ ‘Shipt for Virginia:’ The Beginnings in 1619–1622 of the Great Migration to the Chesapeake.” Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, 103 (1995): 443–458.

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