The Family & Local Histories Project images old books and manuscripts, and digitizes the text using OCR technology.

These books and manuscripts become fully searchable by name or keyword

The entire archive of text and images is placed online where users can search, browse, and print pages.

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Browse all titles in the Family & Local Histories Archive by selecting a county:

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Genealogy and local history books covering Virginia statewide

The following books have been imaged, and are available for viewing online:

• Historical, genealogical, and biographical account of the Jolliffe family of Virginia, 1652 to 1893

• The German element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

• History of the Lutheran Church in Virginia and East Tennessee

• Virginia counties : those resulting from Virginia legislation

• Dates of origin of Virginia counties and municipalities

• Virginia's boundaries

• Resources of south-west Virginia

• Virginia, a geographical and political summary : embracing a description of the state, its geology, soils, minerals and climate

• The colonial church in Virginia : with biographical sketches of the first six bishops of the diocese of Virginia

• Some emigrants to Virginia

• Political history of Appalachian Virginia, 1776-1927

• The peopling of Virginia

• History of the German element in Virginia

• The Scotch-Irish settlers in the valley of Virginia: alumni address at Washington College at Lexington, Va.

• The discoveries of John Lederer

• Annals of southwest Virginia, 1769-1800

• South-west Virginia and the Valley : historical and biographical.

• A history of the valley of Virginia

• The life and adventures of Wilburn Waters, the famous hunter and trapper of White Top Mountain

• The Shenandoah

• Stories of the Shenandoah

• Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia

• To the Shenandoah and beyond : the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee

• A description of the Peaks of Otter

• In the picturesque Shenandoah Valley

• Art work of scenes in the Valley of Virginia, published in twelve parts

• Memory days in which the Shenandoah Valley is seen in retrospection : with glimpses of school days and the life of Virginia people of fifty years ago