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Genealogy

Blackwater Regional Library offers hundreds of valuable genealogy resources to its patrons. Highlights include passenger lists, court records, marriage records, church and cemetary records, will and deed indexes, and war registers. We also hold many books tracing local family lineage.

The library also offers access to two powerful genealogy databases: (Only available in the library)

• Find your roots! This collection assembles every extant U.S. federal census, banking and military records, genealogies, local histories, primary source materials, and genealogical and local history serials.

Heritage Quest Online (at the library) (from home)

• One of the most valuable services available today for anyone researching ancestry in the United States. The company is best known for its collection of the U.S. Federal Census records from 1790 through 1930.
  
  

Web Resources:

• Library of Virginia's Genealogy Collection
  
• Virginia Cemeteries
  
• Virginia Genealogy
  
• Southampton County Historical Society
  
• Isle of Wight County Historical Society
  
• Surry County Historical Society
  
• Sussex County Historical Society
  
• Southampton History Group Message Board
  
• Regional Cemeteries
  
• Regional Genealogy Research and Links
• MSNBC's Best Links for Beginners
• Cyndi's List
• US Genweb
• Access Genealogy
• Family Search
• Geneanet
• Ancestor Hunt
• Free African Americans
• Access Genealogy
• Cheroenhaka/Nottoway Indians
  
  

The Library of Virginia holds the most comprehensive genealogical collection in the Commonwealth. It's well worth a trip to Richmond!