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Last Update: 21-Apr-2020
| What's New | Isle of Wight Archives Wills, Deeds, Obits, etc. |
Books | Cemeteries |
| Census, Tax, Voting Records |
Deeds & Land Records |
History | Marriage Records |
History of Isle of Wight County Isle of Wight Queries
Marriage Records
Death Records
Military Records
Cemetery Records:
Deeds & Land Records:
Census, Tax & Voting Records
The Smithfield Times
The Tidewater News
Zuni: Population 120: One of Isle of Wight's villages.
And more Zuni: Article and pictures
Isle of Wight Arts League An interesting place to visit.
Bike Ride Take a bike ride through the Isle of Wight countryside via You Tube.
Isle of Wight Topographic Maps: If you are working with old wills and deeds, this site gives the names, and latitude and longitude of swamps, creeks, branches, runs and rivers.
Virginia Century Farm Program: A list of Isle of Wight farms that have been in the same family for at least 100 years.
Miscellaneous Court Records from the William & Mary Quarterly: From the USGenWeb Archives Special Collections Project. Most records from the 1600's.
Isle of Wight Committee of Safety: Many Isle of Wight names from the Revolutionary Period. Note: This is a Hardy Family web page -- just scroll down.
The Geography of Slavery: Runaway slave advertisements (in early newspapers) that mention Isle of Wight.
Isle of Wight slaves freed after 1792 Virginia Legislative Enactment: Abstracts of wills and deeds in Isle of Wight court records. Bob's Genealogy Filing Cabinet II: Because this web site could be categorized as “Virginia links”, “Isle of Wight Family Research Pages”, or “Other Interesting or Helpful Sites”,
A History of Isle of Wight County: Written about 1907
by Col. E. M. Morrison for the Jamestown Tercentenary Exposition.
County Sketch and Historical Records:; From the William and Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine (April 1899)
Current Queries
Archived Queries
Ministers' Returns - Isle of Wight County, Virginia: 1799 - 1824
Isle of Wight County Marriage Bonds: 1812 - 1838
Isle of Wight County Marriage Bonds for Free African-Americans: 1812 - 1838
Isle of Wight County Death Register: 1853 - 1855
Isle of Wight County Slave Death Register: 1853 - 1855
Civil War Soldiers & Sailors System: A National Parks Service site to locate civil war ancestors.
Isle of Wight Avengers: Company F of the 61st Virginia Infantry, CSA
The Isle of Wight Historical Society's cemetery transcriptions. (Excellent site!)
Archives Deeds, Land Records & Patents
Newport Parish Vestry Book: Processioning - 1752-1760 ("Processioning" was the process
of land owners and witnesses reconfirming the boundary lines between adjacent properties -- generally every four years).
Local Newspapers
P.O. Box 366
Smithfield, VA 23430
Founded in 1920, published weekly on Wednesdays
1000 Armory Drive
Franklin, VA 23851
Franklin is separated from Isle of Wight by a bridge over the Blackwater River, and this paper, established in 1905, covers a lot of Isle of Wight news.
Isle of Wight History & Genealogy Sites
For deeds, copy & paste the following in your browser: http://www.usu.edu/history/faculty/nicholls/manumissions/isleofwightdeeds.pdf
For wills, copy & paste the following in your browser: http://www.usu.edu/history/faculty/nicholls/manumissions/isleofwightwills.pdf
Of special note:
I am giving it a special place on this page. It traces two Isle of Wight families (Jordan and Reynolds); it answers questions (even those you never thought to ask) about colonial research, customs and laws –
especially pertinent to Virginia. It may also give some research and organizing ideas that had not occurred to you (and me).
Jamestowne Society Organization of descendants of those who lived at Jamestown
Women and Education in Eighteenth-Century Virginia
English Family History and Genealogy: Lots of English data bases, many free.
Find-a-Grave Volunteers from all over the country find and register grave markers. Site has a search engine and often photos
of the markers. It is a "virtual cemetery" with the ability to leave "flowers", information and photographs of deceased relatives.
Registers of (English) Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686: (a Virtual Jamestown site)
National Archives: Genealogy Research Page
The OLIVE TREE Genealogy Homepage: Early ships' passenger lists.
Public Profiler/World Names: Where is your surname most common both in U.S. and world? Drills down to section of a country such as Yorkshire, England.
Slave Voices: Duke University Special Collections
Neighbors -- Now . . . . and Then:
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