The Virginiana Room

A special collection of local historical and genealogical materials

"Step back, and search the footprints of your past and the heritage of the state."
Liz Wilson

The Virginiana Room is home to both book and non-book materials on local history and genealogy.

Book Collection

• Journals of the House of Burgesses
• Acts of the General Assembly of Virginia
• Virginia vital statistics
• Histories and records for Virginia counties
• Virginia Historical Index, compiled by E. G. Swem
• Historical journals included in Swem's index
• Revolutionary and Civil War books on Virginia
• Genealogical handbooks and manuals
• Virginia census indexes (1790, 1810-1880)
• City of Hampton Annual Budgets and Council meeting minutes
• City Directories for Hampton, Newport News and York County
• Yearbooks for Hampton high schools

Non-Book Collection

• Virginia federal census schedules (1790, 1810-1880, 1900-1920)
• Virginia slave schedules (1850-1860)
• Virginia mortality schedules for (1850-1880)
• Federal census schedules, District of Columbia (1800-1840)
• Wills, deeds and vital records, Elizabeth City County
• Older local newspapers on microfilm
• Sanborn Fire Insurance maps, Hampton
• Virginia journals and genealogical quarterlies
• Files on local history and genealogy
• Vintage photographs of Hampton

Other Sources of Information

• Inter-Library Loan services
• Census Microfilm Rental Program
• American Genealogical Lending Library rental program

Questions? Call us at 757/727-1314.
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