Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections is the first 
public library to participate in VIRGINIA HERITAGE,  a consolidated 
database of guides, or finding aids, to manuscript and archival 
collections in selected Virginia repositiories.  There are more than 
1,600 finding aids in the database.  The full-text of the finding aids 
is searchable by keyword and by individual institution. 

VIRGINIA HERITAGE is a cooperative project sponsored by VIVA, the 
Virtual Library of Virginia. The database, which is hosted by the 
University of Virginia Library, contains over 7,500 guides contributed 
by 27 libraries in 23 Virginia repositories.

Alexandria Library, Local History/Special Collections has published 
three finding aids through VIRGINIA HERITAGE.  More will follow:

A Guide to the Roberts United Methodist Church Records, 1877-1913
is available online at:
http://vip.lib.virginia.edu:8080/cocoon/vivaead/published/apl/vaallhs00001.xml.frame 
<http://vip.lib.virginia.edu:8080/cocoon/vivaead/published/apl/vaallhs00001.xml.frame>

A Guide to the Records of the R. H. Lancaster Lodge No. 1370, Grand 
United Order of Odd Fellows of the State of Virginia, 1890-1910 is 
available online at:
http://vip.lib.virginia.edu:8080/cocoon/vivaead/published/apl/vaallhs00002.xml.frame 
<http://vip.lib.virginia.edu:8080/cocoon/vivaead/published/apl/vaallhs00002.xml.frame>

Smith, Sara G. vs. Richmond & Danville Railroad Company and the Virginia 
Midland Railway Company, transcript
is available online at:
http://vip.lib.virginia.edu:8080/cocoon/vivaead/published/apl/vaallhs00003.xml.frame 
<http://vip.lib.virginia.edu:8080/cocoon/vivaead/published/apl/vaallhs00003.xml.frame>

If you have problems accessing these links,please go to the Virginia 
Heritage main site:
1. http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/
2. You can search for the finding aids by limiting the institution to 
Alexandria Library
3. Select the finding aid you would like to view

Other participating institutions in the project are the College of 
William and Mary, Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, George Mason 
University, Hollins University, James Madison University, Library of 
Virginia, Old Dominion University, Radford University, Randolph-Macon 
College, Roanoke College, Roanoke Public Library, Thomas Balch Library, 
University of Richmond, University of Virginia, Virginia Commonwealth 
University, Virginia Historical Society, Virginia Polytechnic Institute 
and State University, Virginia Military Institute, Virginia State 
University, Virginia Union University, Washington and Lee University, 
and Wytheville Community College.

Leslie Anderson Morales
Reference Librarian
Local History/Special Collections
Alexandria Library
717 Queen Street
Alexandria, VA 22314-2420
(703) 838-4577 x213
http://www.alexandria.lib.va.us/branches/lhsc.html







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