Resource Links

This link will access the list of Augusta County Circuit Court Clerks that have served since 1745. A valuable site if transcribing court documents as the names can be difficult to decipher! Scroll to the bottom of the link page to find the list of Clerks.

The Augusta County Genealogical Society meets the third Wednesday of every month at 1:00 pm except July, November, and December at the Augusta County Library in Fishersville, Virginia. Their Mission is three-fold: Help preserve genealogical records and public access to them, furnish aid and education in genealogical research methods, and foster and encourage interest in genealogical research. The speakers and programs are excellent and zoom attendance is usually available. They offer research service of records at the Augusta County Courthouse at an extremely reasonable rate.

The Augusta County Historical Society was founded in 1964. It adopted a constitution and by-laws and elected officers, including a board of directors. Membership was open to persons interested in the history and genealogy of Augusta County, Staunton, and Waynesboro, Virginia. ACHS office and research library hours are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday from 10am-1pm on the third floor of the RR Smith Center. It is strongly suggested that visitors and researchers make an appointment by either emailing adminachs@augustacountyhs.org or calling 540-248-4151 to ensure that our volunteer archivist is available to help. Research requests can be emailed to the archivist team at archivist@augustacountyhs.org The mission of the Augusta County Historical Society is to study, collect, preserve, publish, educate about, and promote the history of Augusta County and its communities. The society also strives to make the citizens of Augusta County aware of their heritage. Once on the site, click on the blue "Augusta County Portal" icon and you will have thousands of research articles tha have been written and compiled since the founding of the society. It is the ultimate resource for Augusta County and Shenandoah Valley historical records.

The Augusta County Library provides a welcoming gathering place with convenient access to information, experiences, and materials for the benefit of all members of the community. Once on the website you can sign up for a library card, the library newsletter, and weekly email updates.

A fabulous website with hundreds of PDFs available for downloading. Includes seminar locations for all things history and preservation oriented. A great resource!

About this publication: This publication is very sizeable, the hardbound volumes (3) contain approximately 600 pages each. For the website they have included navigation aids within the documents, as well as added hypertext links to the index. Other than that they have tried to keep the original formatting as close to the original books as possible. If you have ever had to search through Lyman Chalkley's work, you are sure to enjoy these pages, and find them useful. For your convenience there are some instructions for using this publication, as well as downloading and searching, available on each page.

Good resource for a number of questions one might have regarding how to and how not to cite deed records.

This site is maintained by the National Park Service and contains a plethora of additional links to access just about anything civil war. It goes far beyond being a name database.