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• Welcome
  • About this guide
  • Virginia Room collection development policy
• Getting Started
  • Basic instruction in the process of genealogical research 
    • Scanning the big picture: overviews
    • Focusing in: topical guides
    • Documenting evidence
    • Organizing your materials
    • Passing it on
  • Orientation to research in Tazewell County 
    • Where's the beef? A prime consideration . . .
    • Arrangement of resources in the Library's Virginia Room
    • Primary resources for quick checks of Tazewell County genealogy
• Was Kilroy here?
  • Census records
  • Tax lists and other substitutes for census records
  • Birth records
  • Marriage records
  • Land records
  • Death 
    • Death records
    • Obituaries
    • Cemetery records
    • Wills
  • Family histories
  • Church records
  • Bible records
  • Photographs
  • Military records 
    • Colonial wars
    • Revolution
    • War of 1812
    • Civil War
    • Spanish-American War
    • World War I
    • World War II
    • Korea
    • Vietnam
  • Court records
  • Miscellaneous records
  • Periodicals
• Where did he come from?
  • Ethnic and international guides
    • African American
    • Native American
    • Melungeon
    • European and international
  • Immigration
• How did he get here?
  • Roads and migration routes
  • Maps and gazetteers
• Where do I go from here?

 

Passing it on

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo.  You can write your family history.

Carmack, Sharon DeBartolo.  Carmack’s guide to copyright & contracts: a primer for genealogists, writers & researchers.

Gouldrup, Lawrence P.  Writing the family narrative.

 

Inspiring examples illustrating the part of individuals in the broad sweep of history:

Gates, Henry Louis.  Faces of America:  how 12 extraordinary people discovered their pasts.

Matthews, Linda H.  Middling folk: three seas, three centuries, one Scots-Irish family.