Virginia Genealogy
The Heritage Public Library has digitized numerous yearbooks of schools in Charles City County Virginia and New Kent County Virginia. These yearbook images they have placed online for everyone at Internet Archive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 30 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or downloaded from the following links for free!
The Bedford Public Library has digitized numerous yearbooks of schools in Bedford County Virginia. These yearbook images they have placed online for everyone at Internet Archive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 53 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or downloaded from the following links for free!
For participation in the wars of the Colony of Virginia against the French and Indians, and for service rendered by the Militia in defense of the frontiers, the King’s Proclamation of 1763 granted certain amounts of land.
Virginia Baptists trace their historical roots to several groups of adult baptizers in early seventeenth-century England, some of whom had previously spent time in Holland. Three distinct types of Baptists initially planted the faith in the colony, at a multiplicity of points. The earliest congregations in Virginia were supported by missionaries from England known as the General Baptists. This branch of the faith was Arminian in orientation, believing that God issued a general offer of salvation to mankind. In their view individuals were invested with free will to accept or reject God’s gift of eternal life. There had been some … Read more
One of the three original companies of Baptists that emigrated to Virginia came from Maryland. From these arose the Regular Baptists, as they were for a season called in contradistinction to the Separates. These, though not so numerous as the Separates, are a large and very respectable body of people; for, with very few did they come into Virginia, and now they are become several Associations. Besides the Ketocton, which is a very extensive Association, the Red Stone, Greenbrier and Union all sprung from the same source. Our papers do not exactly agree respecting the date at which the first … Read more
The Accomac Association district lies altogether on the Eastern Shore of Virginia. The Gospel was first carried thither by Elijah Baker. After Mr. Baker had planted a number of churches both on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Virginia, and had been joined by other preachers from different parts, as well as by young ones raised under his ministry, he proposed that the churches should meet by their delegates and form an Association. This they did anno 1784. They took the name of the Salisbury Association from the town of that name in Maryland where they met. They also became … Read more
The court records abound in curiosities in the way of cases tried before the courts. The courts were strict, and did their best to preserve order, and never failed to administer justice to the best of their ability. The scandal-monger, liar, slanderer, and the common scold fared badly. I have only time for an instance or two, which must have been amusing to those not implicated, who beheld the execution of the sentences. For instance, Goody (or Goodwife) Curtis, the wife of John Curtis, tried to milk her cow one evening in the pen of Thomas Powell. At the same … Read more
The Meherrin Regional Library has digitized numerous yearbooks of schools in Virginia. These yearbook images they have placed online for everyone at Internet Archive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 67 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or downloaded from the following links for free!
The Blackwater Regional Library has digitized numerous yearbooks of schools in Virginia. These yearbook images they have placed online for everyone at Internet Archive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 27 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or downloaded from the following links for free!
The Culpeper County Library has digitized numerous yearbooks of schools in Culpeper County Virginia. These yearbook images they have placed online for everyone at Internet Archive. To facilitate your access we have provided links to the individual yearbooks below, by year published, oldest to newest. All 62 of these yearbooks, can be read, and/or downloaded from the following links for free! The schools and range of years (all years not available) include: Culpeper County High School (1950-1977), Culpeper High School (1932-1949), and George Washington Carver Regional High School (1949-1967). Culpeper County High School Yearbooks Vol 1950 – The Colonnade Vol … Read more