The last day to see our traveling exhibit “Determined: The 400-Year Struggle for Black Equality” is Monday, December 6! Digital Resources FOR LOCAL HISTORY AND GENEALOGY RESEARCH Vital Records (Birth, Marriage, Divorce, and Death) Ancestry.com (subscription may be required) FamilySearch.org (registration may be required) Census Records and City Directories Ancestry.com U.S. Federal Census Collection (subscription may be required) Ancestry.com U.S. City Directories Collection (subscription may be required) Newspapers Local newspaper obituary index (Jones Memorial Library) Chronicling America (Library of Congress) Virginia Chronicle (Library of Virginia) - available Lynchburg newspapers include the following: Lynchburg Weekly Gazette (1799–1805) Lynchburg Press (1809–1818) Lynchburg Press and Public Advertiser (1818–1820) Lynchburg Press (1821–1822) Lynchburg Virginian (1849–1852) Lynchburg Daily Virginian (1852–1860) Lynchburg Tri-Weekly Virginian (1885) Newspaper Archive (Library of Virginia) - must be Virginia resident with valid LVA account ProQuest Historical Black Newspapers (Library of Virginia) - must be Virginia resident with valid LVA account Elephind (thousands of historical newspapers) New York Times “TimesMachine” (subscription may be required) New York Times Article Archive (subscription may be required) The Lynchburg Counselor (University of Minnesota) - local African American newspaper, 1891–1892 (University of Minnesota) Court Records Chancery Court Records, 1805–1945 (Library of Virginia) - digital images available for the years 1805-1829, indexed information available through 1945 Virginia State Law, General Assembly, and Local Legislators Legislative Petitions, 1774–1865 (Library of Virginia) Revised Code of Virginia, 1819 (University of Virginia/HathiTrust) Database of House Members (DOME) African American Records Virginia Untold: The African American Narrative (Library of Virginia) Slave Narratives (WPA Federal Writers’ Project) (Library of Congress) Military Service Records Fold3.com (subscription may be required) DAR Genealogical Research Database for Revolutionary War-era individuals Photographs and Portraits Lynchburg Museum System Collection LynchburgHistory.com Galleries Maps and Aerial Photographs LynchburgHistory.com Lynchburg History Map Project (Historic Sandusky/University of Lynchburg) Lynchburg GIS Parcel Viewer Fire Insurance Maps Online (Library of Virginia) - must be Virginia resident with valid LVA account Cemetery Records Old City Cemetery, established 1806 Presbyterian Cemetery, established 1823 Spring Hill Cemetery, opened 1855 Grave Markers FindaGrave.com Undertakers/Funeral Home Records Diuguid Funeral Home, 1820-1950 (Old City Cemetery) Hughes, Fauber, and Other Funeral Homes, 1915-1985 (Jones Memorial Library) Historical Books and Publications Letters from Lee's Army; or, Memoirs of Life in and out of the Army in Virginia During the War Between the States, by Susan Leigh Blackford and Charles Minor Blackford, 1947 (University of Michigan/HathiTrust) Lynchburg and Its Neighbors, by Rosa Faulkner Yancey, 1935 (University of Virginia/HathiTrust) Lynchburg and Its People, by W. Asbury Christian, 1900 (Library of Congress/HathiTrust) Lynchburg's Pioneer Quakers and Their Meeting House, 1754–1936, by Douglas Summers Brown, 1936 (University of Michigan/HathiTrust) Memoirs of Narcissa Owen, 1831-1907, by Narcissa Chisholm Owen, 1907 (University of Virginia/HathiTrust) The Saga of a City, Lynchburg, Virginia, 1786-1936, 1936 (University of Virginia/HathiTrust) Sketch Book of Lynchburg, Va. Its People and Its Trade. Illustrated, by Edward Pollock and S. C. Judson, 1887 (Library of Congress/HathiTrust) Sketches and Recollections of Lynchburg by the Oldest Inhabitant, by Margaret Anthony Cabell, 1858 (Library of Congress/HathiTrust) Video WSLS Television Archives (University of Virginia) School Yearbooks Virginia Yearbooks Digital Collection (Library of Virginia) Ancestry.com U.S. School Yearbooks Collection, 1900-1999 (subscription may be required) Other Useful Resources Virginia Heritage (database of manuscripts and archival materials in Virginia) Digital Public Library of America HathiTrust Digital Library Google Books Internet Archive (Wayback Machine) Library of Virginia Lynchburg Museum System 901 Court Street Lynchburg, VA 24504 (434) 455-6226 museum@lynchburgva.gov