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Virginia  Genealogy: Sources & Resources
Carol McGinnis
Softbound volume totaling
505
pages. Book is in new condition. Just what you need  for genealogy research. Per the publisher;
This is an encyclopedic listing of Virginia sources and resources for the genealogist. Ms. McGinnis devotes entire chapters to such subjects as Virginia land, people, and history; immigration and migration; vital records; Bible and church records; census      records; land and court records; manuscripts and records abroad; ethnic Virginia; slavery and African-Americans; counties and their records; independent cities and their records; genealogical collections; and genealogical societies. Several sections of the book are based upon answers to questionnaires which the author sent to Virginia courthouses and historical and genealogical societies. The bibliography alone runs to 125 pages and contains references to 1,421 books and articles on all aspects of      Virginia genealogy. By any measurement, this is a real giant of a book--and the standard by which all future textbooks on Virginia genealogy will be measured.
EDITORIAL REVIEWS
"While not claiming to be a comprehensive guide and bibliography to sources      and resources relating to the Commonwealth, it comes close to being the book      everyone would want to have close at hand. The author...has admirably pulled      together the history, records, and sources to touch on the basics and, in      many cases, delve a little deeper...
Virginia Genealogy
is an      important book--one that researchers of families in the Old Dominion will      want to own and use."--NATIONAL GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY QUARTERLY, Vol. 83, No.      1 (March 1995), pp. 65-67.
"...excellent book...this reference is a useful addition to the bookshelf of      the Virginia researcher, whether beginner or veteran."--FEDERATION OF      GENEALOGICAL SOCIETIES FORUM, Vol. 7, No. 1 (Spring 1995), p. 31.
"This is without doubt the finest reference work of its kind on records      sources in Virginia...This book can be recommended without reserve to      everyone who has even a slight interest in Virginia genealogical research      and to all libraries with any kind of genealogical collection, however      modest. If not the most valuable book of its kind published this year, it      will unquestionably come close to that honor."
--THE      AMERICAN GENEALOGIST, Vol. 68, No. 3 (July 1993).
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