These links are provided to allow you to access some beneficial sites while doing research without having to leave the website to "find" the data. The links open in a separate widow for your convenience. If you have links to sites that would be appropriate for inclusion, please use the contacts page to send the link and they will be reviewed and considered.
Resource Links
VCRIS - Virginia Cultural Resources Information System
The Virginia Cultural Resources Information System (VCRIS) is an online database that contains the inventory of buildings, districts, archaeological sites, and other types of properties. The public viewer part of the website is not very informative but it does list every site that the Virginia Department of Historic Resources current have in their database. You can search by county if you do not have any of the other keywords and it will give you every site for that locality. The president of Dutch Hollow Hanger Cemetery does hold a license for VCRIS data entry and retrieval with the Department of Historic Resources so use the contacts feature on the cemetery website to request information if necessary.
Virginia Chronicle - Library of Virginia
Newspapers were fickle things during the 19th century. They started and flourished, floundered and failed, restarted, were bought, sold, and probably traded. If you are searching a particular area for something during a particular time frame and you have used the newspaper name in you query, it might help to be assured that the newspaper was actually in business during that period. An absolutely free website for Virginia newspapers offered by the Library of Virginia. If you wish you can just click on the magnifying glass with the search menu blank and it will take you the newspaper page. It is a very self explanatory place to start your search. This site has publications that are not yet available on Newspapers.com. A great tool.
Virginia Department of Historic Resources
A site that must be surfed to be appreciated! All things history as they pertain to Virginia can be found here. A site that the reader can easily spend hours on! Excellent website!
Virginia Family Cemeteries Survey
An excellent resource if you are searching for private graveyards in Virginia. An older database but it is sorted by county and cemetery name. Many of the entries have contact persons listed but that part of the list may be out of date as the research was probably done around 1974. (Not prior to 1972)
Virginia Genealogical Society
We hope this site will make it easier for you to find resources to tell the story of your family. Whether or not you are a Society member, we invite you to explore our site.
Virginia Department of Energy Mines Map
This is not an all inclusive map of closed mines in Virginia but it does include both active and inactive sites, many dating back to the 1880s. This is an interactive site that provides the mine identifiers in the event you wish to follow up with the Bureau of Mines for more detailed information. The map is a product of the Virginia Department of Energy and there is a link that will access the home page where there are multiple links to mining resources.
Vital Statistics - Library of Virginia
A great portal into the LVA with many additional links once on the site. If you are looking for vital stats in Virginia and are not sure if or where they are recorded, this site offers great information on when, how and where Virginia records were compiled.