Resources

There are hundreds of genealogy-related websites to help you with your family history development. We hope you find these resource links helpful. If you have additional resources that you have found to be quite helpful, please share them with us.

• Wikipedia
• FamilySearch
• National Archives Military Records Research
• Library of Congress
  • 1770 Map of Virginia "A new and accurate map of Virginia wherein most of the counties are laid down from actual surveys. With a concise account of the number of inhabitants, the trade, soil, and produce of that Province."
  • 1864 Gilmer Map of Mecklenburg County
  • 1864 Graves Map of Mecklenburg County
  • 1870 Map of Mecklenburg County by Geo. B. Finch
• Internet Archive
  • 1897 Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers of the Hopewell Section ... by John B. Alexander
  • 1903 Virginia, a History of the People by John E. Cooke
  • 1924 History of Virginia by Philip A. Bruce   Volume 1   Volume 2   Volume 3  
  • 1964 Along the Border; a History of Virgilina, Virginia, … by Harry R. Mathis
• 1957 How Justice Grew: Virginia Counties, An Abstract of Their Formation by Martha W. Hiden
• Library of Virginia
  • Reel numbers of county records microfilm available for interlibrary loan
  • Land Tax Records microfilm
  • Personal Property Tax Records
  • Edward GOODE dec'd, plats of land in Charlotte and Mecklenburg counties 1824
• Hometown Locator
• FindAGrave
• Chronicling America - Library of Congress free online newspaper collection
• National Register of Historic Places
• Bureau of Land Management - land patents
• Historic Map Works
• MapGeeks
• Maps of US - interactive map of Virginia county formation history
• Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps
• Vital Records
• Webb Surname DNA Project
• Denise Oliver-Velez's site Ancestors, Baskerville, Roberts-Wilson, and Mark Alexander's Slaves List
• Don Crutchfield will lookup in The Marriage License Bonds of Mecklenburg County, Virginia From 1765 to 1810, by Stratton Nottingham
• POWERS Family and related ELLER, TERRELL, PAYNTER, WYNN, TEMPLE, and HAGER families
• SWEPSON Family
• YANCEY Family
• Linkpendium
• AccessGenealogy
• GenealogyTrails
• Bibliography

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