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Sign up to receive an email notification when A Research Guide to Virginia’s Historical Records by Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS, is available for purchase. The publication contains more than 500 pages and sells for $79.95. The VGS member price is $63.96.This publication packs between its covers the information, with examples, that is normally presented … Read more

Attention VGS members: The latest issue of the VGS Newsletter is now available on the website. Click “VGS Newsletter Archive” under the Publications menu. Census records often contain inaccurate ages and name spellings, but they can also include people who have been dead for years. Read more about it in the featured article, “Enumerating the Dead,” … Read more

While you’re waiting for your print copy to arrive in the mail, enjoy reading the latest issue of the Magazine online. Members should log into the website, click on “Publications,” and then “Magazine of Virginia Genealogy Archive.” This issue includes:

Today, US Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) published a final rule that included a reduction in fees for the USCIS Genealogy Program. Under the new rule, a Genealogy Program Index Search will drop from $65 to $30, if filed online. Similarly, Genealogy Program Record Requests filed online will now cost $30 per record. This is a 54% cut in fees to access the historical records held by USCIS.

Attention VGS members: The latest issue of the VGS Newsletter is now available on the website. Click “VGS Newsletter Archive” under the Publications menu. The featured article in this issue is “Transcribing a year in the life of Edward Dexter Pettengill (III) and what I learned about my grandfather by Robin C. Comfort. Also in … Read more

The Wythe County Genealogical and Historical Association announces its 2024 Family History Institute of Southwest Virginia on Saturday, 6 April 2024. This is an in-person event. The program begins at 8:00 a.m. and ends at 5:00 p.m. Eastern. An optional banquet follows at 6:00 p.m. Location: Wytheville Meeting Center, Wytheville, Virginia Featured speakers: Vincent T. Brooks, Senior … Read more

Hanover County has entered into a contract to purchase several properties located on Route 360 in Mechanicsville, Virginia, and owned by Linwood Paul Bosher and Joanne T. Bosher for construction of a new high school and middle school. During the course of a Phase I Cultural Resource Survey of the properties, an unnamed and unmarked … Read more