yes, come with a plan of action, otherwise you'll be like a kid in a
candy store, so awed you won't know where to begin. I think you could
spend a lifetime in there and still not exhaust all their resources.
And if you're looking into Richmond, there is also the Valentine
Richmond History Center [or whatever the right name is], and the
Virginia Historical Society, also loaded with resources, letters,
documents, family Bibles, etc.

Nancy

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I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days.

--Daniel Boone



On May 13, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Bill Davidson wrote:

> The LOVa is a fantastic resource.  With minor exceptions, that
> facility has essentially replaced my visits to the courthouses in
> VA (luckily, I live only about 30-40 minutes from the LOVa).
> Deeds, wills, personal tax records, property tax records, death
> records, marriage records, census information, old newspapers/
> obits, etc. are all there for the State of VA (much of it is on
> microfilm).  The other side of the library (from where all of the
> microfilm readers are) has books that are segregated by county.
> Many of these contain transcriptions of actual records.
>
> You should go to the LOVa website and see what they have (and copy
> indexes of the things that look interesting).  That way, you can
> "go right to work" when you get there.  Also, the librarians are
> most helpful.  Free parking is available in the "basement garage"
>
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