Sarah E. Mitchell Information Services: Genealogy Research

Resources at the Chatham Branch of the Pittsylvania County Public Library

Note: This list was compiled in 2002. Since that time, materials have been added and taken out of circulation, and most of the genealogy materials owned by the library have been moved to the History Research Center and Library at the old Chatham Railroad Depot.

Virginia Records

• Colonial records of Virginia, pub. 1973
• The statutes at large : being a collection of all the laws of Virginia, from the first session of the Legislature in the year 1619, by William Waller Hening
• Some emigrants to Virginia; memoranda in regard to several hundred emigrants to Virginia during the colonial period whose parentage is shown or former residence indicated by authentic records, compiled by W. G. Stanard
• Early Virginia immigrants, 1623-1666 by George Cabell Greer, 1960
• Early Virginia marriages, edited by William Armstrong Crozier, With a new index by Anna M. Cartlidge
• Marriages of some Virginia residents, 1607-1800, by Dorothy Ford Wulfeck, 1986
• The Virginia Company of London, 1607-1624, abstracted and compiled by Beverley Fleet ; edited by Rev. Lindsay O. Duvall, 1978
• The quit rents of Virginia, 1704, compiled by Annie Laurie Wright Smith, 1975
• Virginia gleanings in England : abstracts of 17th and 18th-century English wills and administrations relating to Virginia and Virginians : a consolidation of articles from The Virginia magazine of history and biography, by Lothrop Withington ; indexed by Thomas L. Hollowak, 1980
• The Douglas register : being a detailed report of births, marriages and deaths ... as kept by the Rev. William Douglas from 1750 to 1797, transcribed and edited by W. Mac Jones, 1928
• Early Quaker records in Virginia, compiled by Miles White, Jr. ; reprinted with a new index, by Anita Comtois, 1977
• Cavaliers and pioneers : abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants Vol. 2: 1666-1695, abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, 1977
• Cavaliers and pioneers : abstracts of Virginia land patents and grants Vol. 3: 1695-1732, abstracted by Nell Marion Nugent, c. 1979
• English duplicates of lost Virginia records, compiled by Louis des Cognets, Jr.
• Genealogies of Virginia families : from the William and Mary College quarterly historical magazine, with an introduction by John Frederick Dorman, 1982
• Virginia land records : from the Virginia magazine of history and biography, the William and Mary College quarterly, and Tyler's quarterly, indexed by Gary Parks
• Virginia marriage records : from the Virginia magazine of history and biography, the William and Mary College quarterly, and Tyler's quarterly, indexed by Elizabeth Petty Bentley
• Virginia military records : from the Virginia magazine of history and biography, the William and Mary College quarterly, and Tyler's quarterly with an index by Elizabeth Petty Bentley
• Virginia tax records : from The Virginia magazine of history and biography, the William and Mary College quarterly, and Tyler's quarterly, Genealogical Publishing Company
• Virginia vital records : from the Virginia magazine of history and biography, the William and Mary College quarterly and Tyler's quarterly, indexed by Judith McGhan
• Virginia will records : from the Virginia magazine of history and biography, the William and Mary College quarterly, and Tyler's quarterly indexed by Judith McGhan
• Historical register of Virginians in the Revolution: soldiers, sailors, marines, 1775-1783, by John Hastings Gwathmey, introd. by H. J. Eckenrode, c. 1938
• Old churches, ministers, and families of Virginia, by Bishop William Meade
• Virginia heraldica, being a registry of Virginia gentry entitled to coat armor, with genealogical notes of the families, edited by William Armstrong Crozier
• Virginia county records, edited by William Armstrong Crozier, 1971
• Some marriages in the burned records counties of Virginia, Virginia Genealogical Society, 1972
• Virginia revolutionary militia, by John H. Smith
• Virginia Revolutionary War State pensions, Virginia Genealogical Society
• Virginia soldiers of 1776, by Louis Alexander Burgess
• Virginia soldiers of the American Revolution, compiled by Hamilton J. Eckenrode
• Virginia tax payers, 1782-87 : other than those published by the United States Census Bureau, by Augusta B. Fothergill and John Mark Naugle
• Virginia cemeteries : a guide to resources, edited by Anne M. Hogg, with Dennis A. Tosh, 1986
• Virginia heraldica, being a registry of Virginia gentry entitled to coat armor, with genealogical notes of the families, by William Armstrong Crozier
• Marriage records in the Virginia State Library : a researcher's guide, by John Vogt & T. William Kethley, Jr., 1984
• Index to Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden's Virginia genealogies, compiled by Rena Gray Fazel
• Index to printed Virginia genealogies, including key and bibliography, reprinted with an added foreword by John Frederick Dorman
• Virginia historical index, by E. G. Swem, 1965 (different than the WPA's Virginia Historical Inventory, 1930 - 1940)
• Bulletin of VA-NC Piedmont Genealogical Society, 11 issues
• Over the mountain men : their early court records in Southwest Virginia, compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell
• Notes on southside Virginia, by Walter A. Watson ; edited by Mrs. Walter A. Watson
• Sources for genealogical searching in Virginia and West Virginia, by Betty L. McCay
• Southside Virginia families, by John Bennett Boddie, c. 1955
• Census Indexes
  • Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 : records of the State enumerations, 1782 to 1785 : Virginia
  • Virginia 1810 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples
  • Virginia 1820 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer
  • Virginia 1830 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer
  • Virginia 1840 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples
  • Virginia 1850 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples
  • Virginia 1870 census index, edited by Bradley W. Steuart

Virginia Records by County and City

• Accomack County
  • Certificates and rights, Accomack, County, Virginia, 1663-1709.
  • The marriage license bonds of Accomack County, Virginia, from 1774 to 1806, listed and indexed by Stratton Nottingham, 1965
  • Tombstone inscriptions of Upper Accomack County, Virginia, Compiled by Mary Frances Carey with Moody K. Miles, III and Barry W. Miles, Heritage Books, 1995
  • Virginia 1800 Accomack County census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, c. 1976
• Amelia County
  • Court order book 1, Amelia County, Virginia, 1735-1746, abstracted and compiled by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey, c. 1985
  • Deed book 2, Amelia County, Virginia : deeds 1742-1747, abstracted and compiled by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey, c. 1982
  • Will book 2, Amelia County, Virginia, 1771-1780, abstracted and compiled by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey, c. 1980
  • Will book 2X, Amelia County, Virginia, 1761-1771, abstracted and compiled by Gibson Jefferson McConnaughey, c. 1979
• Amherst County
  • Amherst County, Virginia, in the Revolution; including extracts from the "Lost order book", 1773-1782, by Lenora Higginbotham Sweeny, 1951
  • Marriage bonds and other marriage records of Amherst County, Virginia, 1763-1800, pub. 1973
• Appomattax County
  • Appomattox County, Virginia, tax lists, 1845 : only extant record for the first year the county was established : includes land tax rolls, personal property tax rolls, researched and transcribed by Harriett A. Chilton, 1973
• Augusta County
  • Abstract of land grant surveys, 1761-1791, by Peter Cline Kaylor, assisted by George Warren Chappelear, 1976
• Bedford County
  • Marriage bonds of Bedford County, Virginia, 1755-1800, compiled by Earle S. Dennis and Jane E. Smith, 1975
  • St. Stephen's Episcopal Church, of Bedford County, Forest, Virginia : historical records & registers from 1824 to 1915, cemetery records from 1824 to 1980, compiled by Helen Strange Patterson, 1983
  • The descendants of Joseph Wilkerson (12 May 1729-15 March 1829) and allied families of Bedford County, Virginia, researched, compiled, and handlettered by Janie Moseley Garraghty Jordan, c. 1995
  • "Our kin" : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia, by Mary Denham Ackerly and Lula Eastman Jeter Parker
• Botetourt County
  • Early marriages, wills, and some Revolutionary War records, Botetourt County, Virginia, compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, 1975
• Brunswick County
  • Marriage records of Brunswick County, Virginia, 1730-1852, compiled by Augusta B. Fothergill ; with an improved index by Anita Comtois, 1976
  • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Brunswick County, Virginia, 1750-1810, compiled and published by Catherine Lindsay Knorr, 1953
• Campbell County
  • Marriages of Campbell County, Virginia, 1782-1810, compiled and published by Lucy Harrison Miller Baber and Hazel Letts Williamson, 1971
• Charles City County
  • Charles City County, Virginia Court Orders 1687-1695, with a fragment of a court order book for the year 1680, compiled by Benjamin Weisger III, c.1980.
• Charlotte County
  • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Charlotte County, Virginia, 1764-1815, pub. 1951
• Clarke County
  • Clarke County marriages : 1836-1850, by John Vogt and T. William Kethley, Jr., 1983
• Culpeper County
  • Marriages of Culpeper County, Virginia, 1781-1815, compiled by Catherine Lindsay Knorr, 1954
  • Genealogical and historical notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. Embracing a rev. and enl. ed. of Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish, Raleigh Travers Green
  • An 18th century perspective : Culpeper County, compiled and edited by Mary Stevens Jones, 1976
• Dinwiddie County
  • Births from the Bristol Parish register of Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie counties, Virginia, 1720-1798 transcribed by Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, 1974
• Essex County
  • Index to marriages of old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia, 1655 [to] 1900, by Eva Eubank Wilkerson, 1953,52
• Fairfax County
  • Abstracts of wills and inventories, Fairfax County, Virginia, 1742-1801 : with rent rolls for 1761 and 1774, J. Estelle Stewart King ; with an new index by Elizabeth Petty Bentley, 1978
• Fauquier County
  • Abstracts of Fauquier County, Virginia : wills, inventories, and accounts, 1759-1800, by John K. Gott, 1972, 1976
  • The Wigfield and Nelson families of Fauquier Co., Virginia, compiled by J. Douglas Bradshaw, 1986
• Fincastle County
  • A brief of wills and marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831, compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, 1976
• Floyd County
  • Floyd County : a history of its people and places, by Amos D. Wood ; edited by Ann Scott Swain
• Franklin County
  • Marriage bonds of Franklin County, Virginia, 1786-1858; transcribed from the original records, annotated and alphabetically arranged. With a new index of brides, parents, and sureties, compiled by Marshall Wingfield, 1973
  • Cemetery records of Franklin County, Virginia, compiled by the Franklin County Historical Society, 1986
  • Entry record book, 1770-1796 : land entries in the present Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick, compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, 1988
  • Franklin County, Virginia, a history, compiled by Marshall Wingfield, 1964
  • Pioneer families of Franklin County, Virginia, compiled by Marshall Wingfield, 1964
• Goochland County
  • Early Virginia families along the James River : their deep roots and tangled branches, compiled and published by Louise Pledge Heath Foley, 1979
• Greene County
  • Greene County marriages : 1838-1850, by John Vogt, 1984
• Greensville County
  • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Greensville County, Virginia, 1781-1825, compiled by Catherine Lindsay Smith Knorr, 1955
• Halifax County
  • Halifax County, Virginia, deed book 1, 1752-1759 abstracted and compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, 1985
  • Halifax County, Virginia deed books 2, 3, 4, 5 & 6, 1759-1767, abstracted and compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, 1986
  • Marriages of Halifax County, Virginia, 1801-1831, compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito and James Hadley Prendergast, c. 1985
  • Will book 0, 1752-1773, Halifax County, Virginia, Marian Dodson Chiarito, c. 1982
  • Will book 1, 1773-1783, Halifax County, Virginia, Marian Dodson Chiarito, c. 1984
  • Vestry book of Antrim Parish, Halifax County, Virginia, 1752-1817, transcribed by Marion Dodson Chiarito, c. 1983
  • A history of Halifax County (Virginia), by Wirt Johnson Carrington, 1924
  • History of Halifax, Pocahontas Wight Edmunds
  • Abstractions of Exemptions from military service and etc., 1862-63 : a record book of Halifax County Court House, Halifax, Virginia, Mary Leigh Boisseau, c. 1980
• Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia)
  • Early records, Hampshire County, Virginia, now West Virginia, including at the start most of known Va. aside from Augusta district, compiled by Clara McCormack Sage and Laura Sage Jones, 1969
• Hanover County
  • Hanover County chancery wills and notes : a compendium of genealogical, biographical, and historical material as contained in cases of the chancery suits of Hanover County, Virginia, compiled by William Ronald Cocke, III, 1978
• Henrico County
  • Births from the Bristol Parish register of Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie counties, Virginia, 1720-1798 transcribed by Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, 1974
  • Early Virginia families along the James River : their deep roots and tangled branches, compiled and published by Louise Pledge Heath Foley, 1979
• Henry County
  • Entry record book, 1770-1796 : land entries in the present Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick, compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, 1988
  • Complete index and abstract of the Henry County order books #1 and #2, 1777-1782, by Charles P. Blunt IV, c. 1978
  • Henry County, Virginia, marriage bonds, 1778-1849 compiled by Virginia Anderton Dodd, 1976
  • A history of Henry County, Virginia, with biographical sketches of its most prominent citizens and genealogical histories of half a hundred of its oldest families, by Judith Parks America Hill, 1976
  • "Follow the periwinkle" : cemetery records of Henry County, Virginia, collected and compiled by the Henry County Historical Society
• Isle of Wight County
  • Wills and administrations of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1647-1800. With a consolidated index, by Jessica Budick and Anita Comtois, 1975
  • Marriages of Isle of Wight County, Virginia, 1628-1800, by Blanche Adams Chapman, 1976
  • Seventeenth century Isle of Wight County, Virginia; a history of the county of Isle of Wight, Virginia, during the seventeenth century, including abstracts of the county records, by John Bennett Boddie, c. 1938
  • Early Quaker records in Virginia, compiled by Miles White, Jr. ; reprinted with a new index, by Anita Comtois, 1977
• King George County
  • King George County Virginia will book A - I, 1721 - 1752 and miscellaneous notes, compiled by George King, 1978
• Lancaster County
  • Abstracts, Lancaster County, Virginia, wills, 1653-1800, by Ida J. Lee, 1973
• Loudon County
  • Abstracts of wills, inventories, and administration accounts of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1800 : with miscellaneous data, compiled by J. Estelle Stewart King, 1978
  • Loudoun County, Virginia, marriage records to 1881, compiled by Aurelia M. Jewell, 1975
  • Marriages of Loudoun County, Virginia, 1757-1853, compiled by Mary Alice Wertz, 1985
• Louisa County
  • History of Louisa County, Virginia, compiled by Malcolm Hart Harris
• Lunenburg County
  • Lunenburg County, Virginia wills, 1746-1825, indexed by Lorraine L. Fuller and Jean V. Sipe
  • Cumberland parish, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1816 : vestry book, by Landon C. Bell, c. 1930
  • Sunlight on the southside; lists of tithes, Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1748-1783, compiled by Landon C. Bell
  • The old Free state; a contribution to the history of Lunenburg County and southside Virginia, by Landon C. Bell, c. 1927
• Lynchburg
  • Marriages and deaths from Lynchburg, Virginia newspapers, 1794-1836, compiled by Lucy Harrison Miller Baber, Louise Ann Blunt, Marion Armistead Lewis Collins, 1980
  • Sketches and recollections of Lynchburg / by the oldest inhabitant (Mrs. Cabell) 1858, with Index by William Frederic Holcombe, 1920, and Places and people mentioned by Mrs. Margaret Anthony Cabell in "Sketches and recollections of Lynchburg" by Louise A. Blunt ... 1974, with index
• Madison County
  • Madison County marriages : 1792-1850, by John Vogt, 1983
• Middlesex County
  • Marriages of Middlesex County, Virginia, 1740-1852
• Montgomery County
  • Montgomery County, Virginia, tax lists, A, B & C, for the year 1788, transcibed by Netti Schreiner-Yantis, c. 1972
  • A brief of wills and marriages in Montgomery and Fincastle Counties, Virginia, 1733-1831, compiled by Anne Lowry Worrell, 1976
• Nansemond County
  • The vestry book of the Upper Parish, Nansemond County, Virginia, 1743-1793, compiled by the Virginia State Library, 1969
  • Early Quaker records in Virginia, compiled by Miles White, Jr. ; reprinted with a new index, by Anita Comtois, 1977
• New Kent County
  • The vestry book and register of St. Peter's parish, New Kent and James City counties, Virginia, 1684-1786, transcribed and edited by C. G. Chamberlayne, 1937
  • Old New Kent County : some account of the planters, plantations, and places in New Kent County, compiled by Malcolm Hart Harris, c. 1977
• Northampton County
  • The marriage license bonds of Northampton County, Virginia : from 1706 to 1854, listed and indexed by Stratton Nottingham, 1974
• Northumberland County
  • The marriage license bonds of Northumberland County, Virginia, from 1783 to 1850, listed and indexed by Stratton Nottingham, 1976
• Orange County
  • Marriages of Orange County, Virginia, 1747-1810
  • Orange County marriages : 1747-1850, by John Vogt, 1984
  • Tombstone inscriptions of Orange County, Virginia, by Margaret C. Klein ; with a foreword by William H. B. Thomas, 1979
• Page County
  • Page County marriage bonds : 1831-1850, by John Vogt, 1983
• Patrick County
  • Patrick County, Virginia birth records, 1853-1869, by Betty A. Pilson and Barbara C. Baughan, 1997
  • Patrick County, Virginia deed abstracts, 1791-1850, by Barbara C. Baughan and Betty A. Pilson, 1997
  • Tombstone inscriptions of the cemeteries of Patrick County, Virginia, compiled by O.E. Pilson, 1984
  • Entry record book, 1770-1796 : land entries in the present Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick, compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, 1988
• Pittsylvania County
  • Court Records
    • Abstracts of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, wills, 1767-1820, compiled by Lela C. Adams
    • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1767-1805, compiled by Catherine Lindsay Knorr
    • Marriages of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1806-1830, compiled by Kathleen Booth Williams
    • Marriages of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1831-1861, compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, 1982
    • Pittsylvania County, Virginia, deed books 1, 2 and 3, abstracted and compiled by Lucille C. Payne, Neil G. Payne
    • Pittsylvania County, Virginia deed book 4 (1774-1778)
    • Pittsylvania County, Virginia deeds, 1778-1780
    • Pittsylvania County, Virginia deeds, 1791-1794
    • Pittsylvania County, Virginia, inventories & accounts current : 1770-1797, compiled by Lucille C. Payne
    • Military records of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1767-1783 : taken from judgement books, 1-2-and 4 and deed book 4, Elizabeth Tunstall White, ed.
    • Pittsylvania County, Virginia, register of free Negroes and related documentation, by Alva H. Griffith, 2001
    • Alphabetical index to the court order books of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1767-1800, compiled by Genealogical Services, 1982
    • Pittsylvania County inventory, circuit court clerk, compiled by B. Kirke White, Jr., 1977
    • Old survey book, compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito
    • Entry record book, 1770-1796 : land entries in the present Virginia counties of Pittsylvania, Henry, Franklin, and Patrick, compiled by Marian Dodson Chiarito, 1988
    • (See also a listing of Pittsylvania County Courthouse resources)
  • Census Records
    • Books
      • 1820 Pittsylvania County, Va., census, compiled by Mike K. Williams
      • Pittsylvania, VA 1850 Federal Census, compiled by Sandra Onbey
    • Microfilms
      • 1790 - includes all of Virginia, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont;
      • 1820 - includes Greensville, Ohio, Pendleton, Pittsylvania, and Tyler Counties;
      • 1830 - all of Virginia;
      • 1840 - Orange, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties;
      • 1850 - all of Virginia, including slave records;
      • 1860 - Pendleton and Pittsylvania Counties, including slave records for 12 counties including Pittsylvania;
      • 1870 - Pittsylvania;
      • 1880 - Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Prince William, and Prince George Counties;
      • 1900 - Pittsylvania;
      • 1910 - Pittsylvania;
      • 1920 - Pittsylvania.
  • Military Records
    • Military records of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1767-1783 : taken from judgement books, 1-2-and 4 and deed book 4, Elizabeth Tunstall White, ed.
    • 42 volumes of the Civil War Regimental Series, including all of Pittsylvania County's units
    • Confederate soldiers of Pittsylvania County & Danville, by Mike K. Williams, 1988
  • Cemetery Records
    • Cemetery records of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, compiled by the members of the VA-NC Piedmont Genealogical Society, 1981
    • Cemetery records, collected by Harriett Whitehead ... [et al.]
    • The link : a record of the old Chatham cemetery, 1873-1983, Frances Whitehead Meyer, text; published by William Pitt Chapter, DAR, 1984
  • Towns and Communities
    • Tracks along the Staunton : a history of Leesville, Lynch Station, Hurt & Altavista by Diane Popek, 1984
    • The junction : Elba--Gretna, Virginia, by Estelle Ironmonger Tyler, c. 1990
    • Along the Dry Fork road, by S. Dail Yeatts
    • Yes There Is A Dry Fork Virginia, by Charles B. Motley, 1977
    • 1846-48 diary of Rev. J. Henry Smith during his first pastorate at Pittsylvania C. H., Virginia (now Chatham), by Rev. J. Henry Smith ; transcribed by O. Norris Smith, 1986 (in the Chatham Library Office)
    • A page from the past : Pittsylvania Court House one century ago, 1846, by Maude Carter Clement
    • Abstracts of Mt. Ararat Primitive Baptist Church : near Whitmell, Pittsylvania County, Virginia : includes biographies of area Primitive Baptist ministers, abstracted, compiled and published by members of the Virginia-North Carolina Piedmont Genealogical Society, 1981
  • Mills and Other Industry
    • Pittsylvania's eighteenth century grist mills, by Herman Melton, 1989
    • Pittsylvania's nineteenth century grist mills, by Herman Melton, 1991
    • The sergeant's Tomahawk Mill, by Herman Melton, 1991
  • Histories of the County
    • Eighteenth century landmarks of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, Research by Madalene Vaden Fitzgerald. Text by Frances Hallam Hurt. Cover sketch by Epps Turner Perrow. Photos. by Madalene Vaden Fitzgerald [and] Frances Hallam Hurt, 1967
    • The history of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, by Maud Carter Clement, 1929
    • A fading heritage : history as seen through native eyes, by Mary Ann Jones, 1984
    • An intimate history of the American Revolution in Pittsylvania County, Virginia, by Frances Hallam Hurt, 1976
    • Pittsylvania : homes and people of the past, compiled and published by Madalene Vaden Fitzgerald, 1974
    • Writings of Maud Carter Clement, by Maud Carter Clement, pub. c.1982
    • The Maude Carter Clement papers in the University of Virginia Library, compiled by Percial M. Thomas, 1980
    • The turn of the wheel : sketches of life in southern Virginia, 1756-1956, by Maud Carter Clement
    • History of Pittsylvania County, 1767-1920, by R. Thomas Hardy, c. 1984
    • Land of the bright leaf, Pittsylvania County, VA : The Pittsylvania Bicentennial Commission, 1967
    • Pittsylvania County's historic courthouse : the story behind Ex Parte Virginia and the making of a national landmark, Herman Melton, 1999
    • Virginia "publick" claims : Pittsylvania County, compiled and transcribed by Janice L. Abercrombie, 1992
  • County Newspaper (on Microfilm)
    • The Star-Tribune, 1938-2000
  • School Yearbooks
    • Chatham Episcopal Institute (now Chatham Hall), The Iris, 1914
    • Chatham Episcopal Institute (now Chatham Hall), The Iris, 1916
    • Chatham Episcopal Institute (now Chatham Hall), The Iris, 1920
    • Pittsylvania High School, The Pitt, 1939
    • Pittsylvania High School, The Pitt, 1940
    • Chatham High School, The Chat, 1945
• Port Royal
  • Hidden village, Port Royal, Virginia, 1744-1981, by Ralph Emmett Fall, 1982
• Powhatan County
  • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Powhatan County, Virginia, 1777-1830, compiled by Catherine Lindsay Smith Knorr, 1957
• Prince Edward County
  • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Prince Edward County, Virginia, 1754-1810, compiled by Catherine Lindsay Smith Knorr, 1950
• Prince George County
  • Prince George County, Virginia, wills and deeds, 1713-1728, Abstracted and indexed by Benjamin B. Weisiger III, 1973
  • Prince George County, Virginia Records 1733-1792 : Abstracts of the remaining county record books for the above period plus miscellaneous wills, compiled by Benjamin B. Weisiger III, 1975
  • Births from the Bristol Parish register of Henrico, Prince George, and Dinwiddie counties, Virginia, 1720-1798 transcribed by Churchill Gibson Chamberlayne, 1974
• Princess Anne County
  • The colonial vestry book of Lynnhaven parish, Princess Anne county, Virginia, 1723-1786, transcribed and edited by George Carrington Mason, 1949
  • Old churches, their cemeteries and family graveyards of Princess Anne County, Virginia, compiled and published by Laurie Boush Green & Virginia Bonney West ; photography by John Trafton Bonney, c.1985
• Rappahannock County
  • Rappahannock County marriages : 1833-1850, by John Vogt, 1984
  • Index to marriages of old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia, 1655 [to] 1900, by Eva Eubank Wilkerson, 1953,52
• Richmond
  • Marriages and deaths from Richmond, Virginia newspapers, 1780-1820, pub. 1983
  • Index to obituary notices in the Richmond enquirer from May 9, 1804, through 1828, and the Richmond Whig from January, 1824, through 1838, [Originally prepared by several members of the apprentice class of the Virginia State Library, 1904, under the direction of Mr. John P. Kennedy, librarian] ; edited by H. R. McIlwaine, 1974
  • The annals and history of Henrico Parish, Diocese of Virginia, and St. John's P.E. Church, edited and compiled by J. Staunton Moore ; with an added index to marriages, baptisms, burials, and inscriptions by Thomas L. Hollowak, 1979
• Roanoke County
  • Roanoke County marriages : 1838-1850, by John Vogt, 1984
• Rockingham County
  • Abstract of land grant surveys, 1761-1791, by Peter Cline Kaylor, assisted by George Warren Chappelear, 1976
  • Old Tenth legion marriages; marriages in Rockingham county, Virginia, from 1778 to 1816, taken from the marriage bonds, compiled by Harry M. Strickler
  • Virginia valley records, John Walter Wayland
• Shenandoah County
  • Shenandoah County marriage bonds : 1772-1850, by John Vogt, 1983
• Smythe County
  • Smyth County marriages : 1832-1850, by John Vogt, 1984
• Southampton County
  • Marriage bonds of Southampton County, Virginia, 1750-1800, compiled and published by Blanche Adams Chapman and Catherine Lindsay Knorr
• Spotsylvania County
  • A history of early Spotsylvania by James Roger Mansfield, 1977
• St. Mark's Parish
  • Genealogical and historical notes on Culpeper County, Virginia. Embracing a rev. and enl. ed. of Philip Slaughter's History of St. Mark's Parish, Raleigh Travers Green
• Surry County
  • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Surry County, Virginia, 1768-1825, compiled by Catherine Lindsay (Smith) Knorr
  • Births, deaths and sponsors, 1717-1778 from the Albemarle Parish register of Surrey and Sussex Counties, Virginia, by John Bennett Boddie
• Sussex County
  • Marriage bonds and ministers' returns of Sussex county, Virginia, 1754-1810, compiled by Catherine Lindsay (Smith) Knorr
  • Births, deaths and sponsors, 1717-1778 from the Albemarle Parish register of Surrey and Sussex Counties, Virginia, by John Bennett Boddie
• Warren County
  • Warren County marriages : 1836-1850, by John Vogt
• Washington County
  • Washington County marriage register, 1782-1820, abstracted by Beverley Fleet, 1966
• Westmoreland County
  • The marriage license bonds of Westmoreland County, Virginia, from 1786-1850
  • Wills of Westmoreland County, Virginia, 1654-1800, by Augusta B. Fothergill

North Carolina Records

• Marriage and death notices from Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1799-1825, compiled by Carrie L. Broughton, 1975
• Marriage and death notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1826-1845, compiled by Carrie L. Broughton, 1968
• Marriage and death notices in Raleigh Register and North Carolina State Gazette, 1846-1867, compiled by Carrie l. Broughton, 1975
• Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 : North Carolina
• North Carolina 1800 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples
• North Carolina 1810 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer
• North Carolina 1820 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer
• North Carolina 1830 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, David Schaefermeyer, Gary Ronald Teeples
• North Carolina 1840 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples
• North Carolina 1850 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer
• North Carolina taxpayers, compiled by Clarence E. Ratcliff
• Bulletin of VA-NC Piedmont Genealogical Society, 11 issues
• Free African Americans of North Carolina, by Paul Heinnegg, 1991

Maryland Records

• Heads of families at the first census of the United States taken in the year 1790 : Maryland Department of Commerce and Labor, Bureau of the Census; Ronald Vern Jackson, editor
• Maryland 1800 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples
• Maryland 1810 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer
• Maryland 1820 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples
• Maryland 1830 census index , editor Ronald Vern Jackson
• Maryland marriages, 1634-1777, compiled by Robert Barnes, 1975
• Maryland records; Colonial, Revolutionary, county and church, from original sources
• Maryland genealogies : a consolidation of articles from the Maryland historical magazine, with an introd. by Robert Barnes ; indexed by Thomas L. Hollowak
• To Maryland from overseas : a complete digest of the Jacobite Loyalists sold into white slavery in Maryland and the British and Continental background of approximately 1400 Maryland settlers from 1634 to the early Federal period with source documentation, by Harry Wright Newman
• The flowering of the Maryland palatinate : an intimate and objective history of the Province of Maryland to the overthrow of proprietary rule in 1654, with accounts of Lord Baltimore's settlement at Avalon, by Harry Wright Newman

Georgia Records

• The reconstructed 1790 census of Georgia : substitutes for Georgia's lost 1790 census, compiled by Marie De Lamar & Elisabeth Rothstein, 1985
• Index to Georgia wills, by Jeannette Holland Austin, 1985
• Georgia Bible records, compiled by Jeannette Holland Austin, 1985
• The Georgians : genealogies of pioneer settlers, by Jeannette Holland Austin, 1984

Ohio Records

• Early Ohio settlers : purchasers of land in southeastern Ohio, 1800-1840, compiled by Ellen T. Berry & David A. Berry, 1984
• Early Ohio tax records, compiled by Esther Weygandt Powell
• Ohio cemetery records, extracted from the "Old Northwest" genealogical quarterly ; with an index by Elizabeth P. Bentley, 1984
• Ohio marriages : extracted from the Old Northwest Genealogical Quarterly, edited by Marjorie Smith, c. 1977, 1980
• First ownership of Ohio lands, by Albion Morris Dyer, 1982

South Carolina Records

• Roster of South Carolina patriots in the American Revolution, compiled by Bobby Gilmer Moss, 1983
• South Carolina naturalizations, 1783-1850, compiled by Brent H. Holcomb, 1985
• The historical writings of Henry A.M. Smith : articles from the South Carolina historical (and genealogical) magazine, reprinted 1988
• A Confederate surgeon's letters to his wife, by Spencer Glasgow Welch, 1911 (South Carolina infantry. 13th regt., 1861-1865)

Tennessee Records

• Tennessee genealogical records : records of early settlers from State and county archives, by Edythe Rucker Whitley, 1980
• Tennessee cousins, by Worth S. Ray, 1980

Washington, D. C. Records

• District of Columbia 1820 census index, editors, Ronald Vern Jackson, Gary Ronald Teeples, David Schaefermeyer

Records from the South

• Notable southern families, compiled by Zella Armstrong
• Historical Southern families, compiled by John Bennett Boddie
• A key to Southern pedigrees, being a comprehensive guide to the colonial ancestry of families in the States of Virginia, Maryland, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, West Virginia and Alabama, edited by William Armstrong Crozier
• Old southern Bible records: transcriptions of births, deaths, and marriages from family Bibles, chiefly of the 18th and 19th centuries, compiled by Memory Aldridge [i.e. Alldredge] Lester
• Colonial families of the Southern States of America : a history and genealogy of colonial families who settled in the Colonies prior to the Revolution by Stella Pickett Hardy
• Colonial soldiers of the South, 1732-1774, by Murtie June Clark ; with an index by Judith McGhan
• Taproots, a Virginia & Carolina legacy, by Paul R. White, 1986

Records from New England

• Ancestral roots of sixty colonists who came to New England between 1623 and 1650, by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1951
• Ancestral roots of sixty colonists who came to New England between 1623 and 1650 : supplement, by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1952

Family Histories

• An Adams family of Virginia, 1800 to present : the descendants of Samuel Adams and Tamson Ann Dix Adams of Pittsylvania, Halifax, and Charlotte counties, Virginia, collaborated by Gordon S. Adams and Lona (Judy) Odell Adams Fletcher Seitz, c. 1990
• John Alexander : a Northern Neck proprietor : his family, friends, and kin, by Wesley E. Pippenger ; with introduction by T. Michael Miller, 1990
• The Edward Pleasants Valentine papers, abstracts of records in the local and general archives of Virginia relating to the families of Allen, Bacon, Ballard, Batchelder, Blouet, Brassieur (Brashear), Cary, Crenshaw, Dabney, Exum, Ferris, Fontaine, Gray, Hardy, Isham (Henrico County), Jordan, Langston, Lyddall, Mann, Mosby, Palmer, Pasteur, Pleasants, Povall, Randolph, Satterwhite, Scott, Smith (the family of Francis Smith of Hanover County), Valentine, Waddy, Watts, Winston, Womack, Woodson, 1927
• The patriarch : the rise and fall of the Bingham dynasty, by Susan E. Tifft, Alex S. Jones, c. 1991
• Family history of Martin Binnion, William Blackburn, Richard Hilton, Massey, Elisha Shelton, and James Smith, compiled by the Institute of American Genealogy, 1955
• Eppy N. Brumfield family genealogy, by Avanelle Collins
• Burnett-Baker-Beaman and related families : a history and genealogy with pictures, addresses, and copies of documents, research team, Bercha (Burnett) Jones, Archie Franklin Burnett, Blanche (Miller) Burnett, author ; layout and design by Morris and Julia Souders, 1978
• The Cabells and their kin. A memorial volume of history, biography, and genealogy, by Alexander Brown, D. C. L.
• A genealogy of the known descendants of Robert Carter of Corotoman, compiled and published by Florence Tyler Carlton for Foundation for Historic Christ Church, 1982
• The descendants of Capt. Thomas Carter of "Barford," Lancaster County, Virginia, 1652-1912, by Joseph Lyon Miller, 1982
• The Chaney family chronicles : a newsletter, by Margie Chaney Angle
• The Dalton gang story, by Nancy B. Samuelson, 1992 (includes genealogy information on the Dalton family)
• The Doss connection, by Libbie Griffin
• Elliott 'n' kin, compiled by John Burrows
• The Emerson's [sic] of Pittsylvania County, Virginia and their descendants, by Craig C. Emerson, 1978
• History of the Farthings of Virginia and Ohio, 1636-1981, by Earl E. Farthing, 1981
• A Finn genealogy, 1750-1985 : some ancestors and descendants of Colman Finn, 1823-1916, grandson of Richard Finn, 1750-1833 of Adair County, Kentucky, by Patricia Finn Hunter, 1986
• The genealogy of the Foust, Grubb, Yeatts, Short and Tucker families of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, compiled by Bertha P. Faust, 1976
• Giles, Walton, and Cox families, by Ruth Giles Fischer, 1957
• The early Gosney's [sic] of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, by Craig C. Emerson, 1980
• The Hairstons : an American family in black and white, by Henry Wiencek, 1999
• A history of the Hamblen and allied families, by Armeanous Porter Hamblen
• Holder family biographical and historical records and genealogy of Daniel Holder, 1758-1843 of Fauquier & Pittsylvania Counties, Virginia and Union County, South Carolina, edited by Edward A. Woolen, 1992
• Meet your ancestors : some descendants of Robert Hubbard, compiled by Noland Hubbard Bowling, c. 1985
• Keeping the lamp of remembrance lighted : a genealogical narrative with pictures and charts about the Jacksons and their allied families; unfortunate Peter B. Suman who was hanged and quartered in Fredericktown, Md. during the Revolutionary War hysteria; Bower, Bowman, Bachtell and Conard kin, and the family of my wife, Doris Christine Grace, by Elmer Martin Jackson, Jr., 1985
• History of the Jefferson family, by Dr. Betty Jefferson Harris
• A history of the Keesee family, by Vincent A. Keesee, 2000
• The Keesee family in Pittsylvania County, Virginia Vincent A. Keesee, 1980
• Mae Brittain-Keesee from Webster County, Missouri : her ancestors and descendants, by Bette June Nelson, 1987
• Layne-Lain-Lane genealogy; being a compilation of names and historical information of male descendants of sixteen branches of the Layne-Lain-Lane family in the United States, gathered from legal records and other available sources, by Floyd Benjamin Layne, 1962
• The Lewis, Harrison, Bezer, Schoolfield ancestry of John H. Lewis, d. 1907, of Lynchburg and the Wiatt ancestry of his wife, Elizabeth D. Langhorne, d. 1946, compiled by Elizabeth Lewis Otey, 1972
• The Lumpkin family of Georgia, by L. L. Cody, 1928
• The Green sea : descendants of Joseph Miller 1645 Settler of Norfolk County, Virginia and related lines, compiled byApril Wood Miller, c. 1990
• The Motleys of Virginia, by Lola Bernice Frakes, 1963
• Poingdestre-Poindexter : a Norman family through the ages, 1250-1977, by John Poindexter Landers ; final chapter by Robert Downs Poindexter
• Reynolds kith and kin, researched and compiled by Christine Reynolds Stone, 1988
• The Sams family of Virginia, by Crawford F. Sams, Conway C. Sams, Robert C. [i.e. D] Hackett, 1981
• Shelton county : a genealogy of Pittsylvania County's largest family, by April Miller
• History of the Sours family in Germany, Maryland, Pennsylvania, & Virginia, by William Merchant Sours, 1978
• Thornton : branches to westward by Richard Thornton Fox
• Vaden-Hailey-Ward : family notes from a lifetime collection of family data concerning my father's Vaden background, and my mother's Hailey and Ward connections, by Mary Jane Vaden, 1981
• Wade-Waid-Waide : A research book primarily of census cemetery and courthouse records for the states of Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiania, Kentucky, Massachusetts, Mississippi, Missouri, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Virginia, compiled by Mrs. Jeff Wade, 1975
• Descendants of John Richard Whitehead and Sallie Hunt Graves, compiled by Ruth T. and Janie Whitehead, 1956-58
• The descendants of Joseph Wilkerson (12 May 1729-15 March 1829) and allied families of Bedford County, Virginia, researched, compiled, and handlettered by Janie Moseley Garraghty Jordan, c. 1995
• The Wigfield and Nelson families of Fauquier Co., Virginia, compiled by J. Douglas Bradshaw, 1986
• A history of John Yeardley Yates of Pittsylvania and Patrick counties, Virginia : from mid 1700 to 1990, by Robert Somerville Radford Yates, c. 1990
• Early Virginia families along the James River : their deep roots and tangled branches, compiled and published by Louise Pledge Heath Foley, 1979
• "Our kin" : the genealogies of some of the early families who made history in the founding and development of Bedford County, Virginia , by Mary Denham Ackerly and Lula Eastman Jeter Parker
• Family history, compiled by Lucy Henderson Horton, 1922

Immigration Records

• Locating your immigrant ancestor : a guide to naturalization records, by James C. Neagles and Lila Lee Neagles, 1975
• Emigrants to America : indentured servants recruited in London, 1718-1733, by John Wareing, 1985
• New World immigrants : a consolidation of ship passenger lists and associated data from periodical literature, edited by Michael Tepper, 1979
• Founders of early American families : emigrants from Europe, 1607-1657, by Meredith B. Colket, Jr.
• The original lists of persons of quality ... who went from Great Britain to the American plantations, 1600-1700 ... , John Camden Hotten
• A bibliography of ship passenger lists, 1538-1825; being a guide to published lists of early immigrants to North America, compiled by Harold Lancour
• Some emigrants to Virginia; memoranda in regard to several hundred emigrants to Virginia during the colonial period whose parentage is shown or former residence indicated by authentic records, compiled by W. G. Stanard

War Records

• Revolutionary War
  • Military records of Pittsylvania County, Virginia, 1767-1783 : taken from judgement books, 1-2-and 4 and deed book 4, Elizabeth Tunstall White, ed.
  • DAR patriot index
  • Colonial soldiers of the South, 1732-1774, by Murtie June Clark ; with an index by Judith McGhan
  • Historical register of Virginians in the Revolution: soldiers, sailors, marines, 1775-1783, by John Hastings Gwathmey, introd. by H. J. Eckenrode, c. 1938
  • Virginia revolutionary militia, by John H. Smith
  • Virginia Revolutionary War State pensions, Virginia Genealogical Society
  • Virginia soldiers of 1776, by Louis Alexander Burgess
  • Virginia soldiers of the American Revolution, compiled by Hamilton J. Eckenrode
• Civil War
  • 42 volumes of the Civil War Regimental Series, including all of Pittsylvania County's units
  • Register of federal prisoners of war of the U.S. Army confined at Danville, Virginia, 1863-1864-1865 : and, Confederate soldiers deaths and effects at the Danville, Virginia hospital, 1862-1863, abstracted by Claude and Marilyn Lowe Halstead, 1982
  • List of Confederate soldiers who died in the Danville, Va. general hospitals, 1862-1865 by Raymond W. Watkins, 1982
  • Abstractions of Exemptions from military service and etc., 1862-63 : a record book of Halifax County Court House, Halifax, Virginia, Mary Leigh Boisseau, c. 1980
  • A Confederate surgeon's letters to his wife, by Spencer Glasgow Welch, 1911 (South Carolina infantry. 13th regt., 1861-1865)
  • Between two fires : Black soldiers in the Civil War by Joyce Hansen
• Misc.
  • Virginia military records : from the Virginia magazine of history and biography, the William and Mary College quarterly, and Tyler's quarterly with an index by Elizabeth Petty Bentley

Microfilms

• Census Records
  • 1790 - includes all of Virginia, Rhode Island, South Carolina, and Vermont
  • 1820 - includes Greensville, Ohio, Pendleton, Pittsylvania, and Tyler Counties
  • 1830 - all of Virginia
  • 1840 - Orange, Patrick, and Pittsylvania Counties
  • 1850 - all of Virginia, including slave records
  • 1860 - Pendleton and Pittsylvania Counties, including slave records for 12 counties including Pittsylvania
  • 1870 - Pittsylvania County
  • 1880 - Pittsylvania, Prince Edward, Prince William, and Prince George Counties
  • 1900 - Pittsylvania County
  • 1910 - Pittsylvania County
  • 1920 - Pittsylvania County
• Newspaper Records
  • The Star-Tribune, 1938-2000
  • New York Times, 1987-1999
• Miscellaneous Records
  • VSLA (Library of Virginia and Virginia State Archives) Guide to County Court Records
  • Index to the Microfilmed Court Records Available for Loan from VSLA

African-American Resources

• Pittsylvania County, Virginia, register of free Negroes and related documentation, by Alva H. Griffith, 2001
• Free African Americans of North Carolina, by Paul Heinegg, 1991
• Black courage, 1775-1783 : documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, by Robert Ewell Greene, 1984
• Black Genealogy, by Charles L. Blockson with Ron Fry, c. 1977
• Finding a place called home : a guide to African-American genealogy and historical identity, by Dee Palmer Woodtor, Random House, New York, 1999
• Between two fires : Black soldiers in the Civil War by Joyce Hansen
• The Booker T. Washington papers, Louis R. Harlan, editor
• "Dear Master" : letters of a slave family, edited by Randall M. Miller
• The Hairstons : an American family in black and white, by Henry Wiencek, 1999
• A history of the Keesee family, by Vincent A. Keesee, 2000
• Afro-American sources in Virginia : a guide to manuscripts, by Michael Plunkett, University Press of Virginia
• Lay my burden down : a folk history of slavery, edited by B.A. Botkin
• Slave counterpoint : Black culture in the eighteenth-century Chesapeake and Lowcountry, by Phillip D. Morgan
• Medicine and slavery : the diseases and health care of Blacks in antebellum Virginia, by Todd L. Savitt
• Slavery in the United States, by Leonard W. Ingraham
• A history of slavery in Virginia, by James Curtis Ballagh, 1902
• Amistad : the slave uprising aboard the Spanish schooner, by Helen Kromer

Jewish American Resources

• Finding our fathers : a guidebook to Jewish genealogy, by Dan Rottenberg, 1977

Native American Resources

• Occaneechie Saponi and Tutelo of the Saponi Nation : aka Piedmont Catawba : Southeastern Indian refugees from Virginia, the Carolinas and Tennessee in Ohio, Indiana and Michigan, written and compiled by Richard L. Haithcock, Vicki L. Haithcock, 1996
• Pocahontas' descendants : a revision, enlargement, and extension of the list as set out by Wyndham Robertson in his book Pocahontas and her descendants (1887) by Stuart E. Brown, Jr., Lorraine F. Myers, and Eileen M. Chappel, 1985

Heraldry

• Fairbairn's crests of the leading families in Great Britain and Ireland and their kindred in other lands, comp. from the best authorities by James Fairbairn, rev. by Laurence Butters, ed. by Joseph MacLaren, 1911
• Heraldry, by Julian Franklyn, drawings by Alan Keith-Hill, 1965, 1968
• Virginia heraldica, being a registry of Virginia gentry entitled to coat armor, with genealogical notes of the families, by William Armstrong Crozier

Assorted Genealogy Books

• American ancestry: giving the name and descent, in the male line, of Americans whose ancestors settled in the United States previous to the Declaration of Independence, A.D. 1776.
• The abridged compendium of American genealogy: first families of America, edited by Frederick A. Virkus, 1925
• Bermuda settlers of the 17th century : genealogical notes from Bermuda by Julia E. Mercer ; with an index by Judith McGhan, 1982
• English adventurers and emigrants, 1609-1660 : abstracts of examinations in the High Court of Admiralty with reference to Colonial America, by Peter Wilson Coldham, 1984
• In search of your British & Irish roots : a complete guide to tracing your English, Welsh, Scottish, & Irish ancestors, by Angus Baxter, 1982
• Colonial families of the Southern States of America : a history and genealogy of colonial families who settled in the Colonies prior to the Revolution, by Stella Pickett Hardy, Genealogical Pub. Co., 1974
• Colonial families of the United States of America, in which is given the history, genealogy, and armorial bearings of colonial families who settled in the American Colonies from the time of the settlement of Jamestown, 13th May, 1607, to the Battle of Lexington, 19th April, 1775, George Norbury MacKenzie
• Burke's American families with British ancestry : the lineages of 1,600 families of British origin now resident in the United States of America
• American and English genealogies in the Library of Congress, compiled under the direction of the chief of the Catalogue Division, 1967
• Scottish family history, a guide to works of reference on the history and genealogy of Scottish families, by Margaret Stuart; to which is prefixed an essay on how to write the history of a family, by Sir James Balfour Paul ..., 1930
• A guide to genealogical sources in the University of Virginia Library, compiled by Linda A. Bullock and Patricia Potter ; edited by Raymond A. English
• Huguenot pedigrees, by Charles E. Lart, 1967
• The Handbook of American genealogy, 1932
• Ancestral roots of sixty colonists who came to New England between 1623 and 1650, by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1951
• Ancestral roots of sixty colonists who came to New England between 1623 and 1650 : supplement, by Frederick Lewis Weis, 1952
• Seventeenth century colonial ancestors of members of the National Society Colonial Dames XVII Century, 1915-1975, compiled by Mary Louise Marshall Hutton
• The genealogical department : source records from the DAR magazine, 1947-1950, by Katie-Prince W. Esker, genealogical editor
• Index to American genealogies; and to genealogical material contained in all works such as town histories, county histories, local histories, historical society publications, biographies, historical periodicals, and kindred works, alphabetically arranged ..., 1966
• Register of ancestors, The National Society of the Colonial Dames of America in the Commonwealth of Virginia, 1979
• They went thataway, by Charles Hughes Hamlin, 1974
• The Virginia genealogist, by J. F. Dorman, 1957
• Bulletin of VA-NC Piedmont Genealogical Society, 11 issues
• Preserving your past : a painless guide to writing your autobiography and family history, Janice T. Dixon and Dora D. Flack, 1977
• Research in American genealogy, by Kay E. Kirkman, 1956
• Searching for your ancestors; the why and how of genealogy, by Gilbert Harry Doane

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