Virginia Vital Records
Many web sites can help you find out more about your Virginia ancestors. In the table of information below, you will find many VA web sites organized for you, including the type of record, the title, the web site address, the approx. number of records, the date range, whether or not it is free to search, and notes about the site. Come back often as we will be adding more and more genealogy web sites to help you learn more about using the Internet to find your genealogy.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree Virginia Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put VA in the birth place field | 0ver 880,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb Virginia Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Virginia in the birth place field | 0ver 3,500,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb Virginia Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Virginia in the marriage place field | 0ver 1,700,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Old Virginia Obits 1790-1940 | virginiaobits.homestead.com/ | over 750 entries | 1790-1940 | Free | A nice little site that might just have your name. Obituaries are wonderful because they usually give so much information. The webmaster says to make sure and check back as they are adding more and more. |
| RootsWeb Virginia Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put Virginia in the death place field | 0ver 1,400,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: Virginia | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put VA in the Keyword Search | 0ver 210,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree Virginia Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put VA in the death place field | 0ver 350,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
Census Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| The USGenWeb Census Project | www.us-census.org and go down to Census Surname Search and then find VA and put in the word "census" | 571 links with varying numbers of records per each | 1790-1920 | Free | Wow, what a site! Transcribed by volunteers and still in the works, I really found this site great! You can search by year, state, or name! |
| Census Online, Virginia, 776 links | www.census-online.
com/links/VA/ | 1,000s | 1840-1900 | Free | Another nice site without the information of how much is posted. A lot is posted however it is difficult to search through to find your ancestor as there is not a surname search |
Cemetery Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Virginia Inscription Cemetery Search | www.obitcentral.com
/cemsearch/va-cem.htm | 2456 documents with various numbers of results per each | varies | Free | Another nice searchable site that takes a lot of its information from RootsWeb, but it also catalogues from other cemetery sites. |
| Cemetery Transcription Library | www.interment.net
/data/search.htm | 100s | varies | Free | What a cool site! It's hard to pin point exactly how many records there are per site as it only gives the "best" 300, although it gave a general number for the entire site. |
| Search the Virtual Cemetery | www.genealogy.com
/VG/vcem_search.html | 100s | varies | Free | A nice searchable site. And how fun it was to bring up a name and see a picture of the actual headstone. |
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