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Sources for Virginia Genealogy Research
By Barbara Vines Little, CG
 More of this Feature
• Pt 1: Overview of Virginia Genealogy

Bibliography of Sources:
Virginia Court System
Virginia Land Records
Virginia Probate & Immigration
Virginia Census & Tax
• Virginia Military Records
Virginia Law & Church


 

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• Virginia Vital Records
• Virginia Genealogy Links
• Land Records
• Naturalization Records
• Wills & Probate Records
• Military Genealogy
• Census Records
 
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• National Genealogical Society Learning Center
 
 

Virginia Military Records

Abercrombie, Janice L. and Richard Slatten. Index to the Virginia Revolutionary “Publick” Claims County Booklets. Athens, Ga.: Iberian Publishing Company, 1992.

Bockstruck, Lloyd DeWitt. Virginia Colonial Soldiers. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1990.

Brumbaugh, Gaius Marcus. Revolutionary War Records: Virginia Army and Navy Forces with Bounty Land Warrants for Virginia Military District of Ohio, and Virginia Military Scrip; from Federal and State Archives. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1967.

Burgess, Louis A. Virginia Soldiers of 1776. (3 volumes) Richmond: Richmond Press, Inc., 1927–1929.

Butler, Stuart Lee. A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812. Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1988.

Crozier, William Armstrong. Virginia Colonial Militia, 1651–1776. 1905. Reprint, Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1965.

Dorman, John Frederick. Virginia Revolutionary Pension Applications. 50-plus vols. Washington, D.C.: the author, 1955–. Abstracts the pension records of any soldier who was born, lived or died in Virginia. A compiled four-volume index to the first fifty volumes is also available.

Eckenrode, Hamilton J. Virginia Soldiers of the American Revolution. 2 vols. Richmond, Va: Virginia State Library and Archives, 1912, rpt. 1989.

Sanchez-Saavedra, E.M., comp. A Guide to Virginia Military Organizations in the American Revolution 1774–1787. Richmond, Va: Virginia State Library, 1978.


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