Surnames

• Listing of Surnames being researched

Vital Statistics

• Listing of Birth & Death Certificates

Large Databases

• Virginia Criminals 1607 - 1982

Freedman Savings & Trust

• Signatures of Depositors

Plantations

• Plantation Owners

  • Spencer Calvert

  • Reason Fryer

  • Ebenezer Morse

• Virginia's James River Plantations

Queries

• Surnames listed: Tyree

Military

• James Harris- Free & a Revolutionary War Vet of Patrick Co.

• Virginia Military Service Database

• Excerpt from John K. Martin Business Papers

Probate

• 1779 Petition to divide Bladen, Duplin & New Hanover Counties

• Tax List of Timothy Holtzclaw

• Descendants & Will Extract of William Mountjoy

Will and Estate Records

• Henry Tandy- partial list of slaves

• Will Extract of  Henry Wilson naming slaves

State Records

• Virginia USGenWeb Archives

• Virginia USGenWeb

• Virginia Black History Archive

• African American Cemeteries Online

• Free African Americans in Colonial Records - includes Indian Slaves and Free Indians

• Free African Americans of Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Delaware 

Probate Records

• Links pertaining to Probate Records

• 1802 Will of Timothy Tynes

• Virginia Slaves freed after 1782

Outside Links

• American Slave Narratives - An Online Anthology

• Library of Congress Slave Narratives from the Federal Writers' Project

• The Valley of the Shadow

• The Emancipation of Slave Lewis Roberson

Message Boards and Mailing Lists at Rootsweb

• VA African American Board

• VA-African American Mailing List

• VA Freedmen Mailing List

• VA Roots Mailing List