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
It’s that time of the year when we all pause for a moment to consider our blessings. The Board of the Virginia Genealogical Society (VGS) is no different. We thank you, our members and friends, for your continued support of the organization and the genealogical community. Without you, we would not be able to: Without … 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
Beginning in 2021, James Madison University students in the Justice Studies program partnered with the Library of Virginia’s Making History project to make primary source materials which document racially motivated lynching in the commonwealth from 1866-1932 more accessible. The materials are now freely available through two digital projects. Read more in today’s The UncommonWealth https://uncommonwealth.virginiamemory.com/blog/2023/09/13/documenting-lynching-in-virginia-a-transcription-project-at-james-madison-university/