Local History and Genealogical Research in the University Libraries

Please note: Some church records are held in the collection at the Virginia State Library.

• Clark and Long, Guide to Church Records in the Archives Branch of the Virginia State Library Call No.: CD3568.5 V57 1981 Special Collections

Baptist records at the American Baptist Historical Society, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, Rochester, New York, and at the Virginia Baptist Historical Society, University of Richmond, Richmond, Virginia

• Historical records Survey, Virginia, Inventory of church Archives in Virginia: Guide to the Collection of the Virginia Baptist Historical Collection 2 v. in 3 Call No.: F225 H5 Special Collections and Newman 3rd floor (Obituary records & marriage notices in the Religious Herald 1828-1938)
• Virginia University Library, Annual Report of the Archivist Call No.: CD3560 V5 1936-1937 Remote Storage (requires notice for retrieval)

Church of Latter-Day Saints, LDS Genealogical Soc., Salt Lake City. Richmond State Branch, 5600 Monument Ave., Richmond, VA

• Brown, Handy Index to the Holdings of the Genealogical Society of Utah (U.S. County Records) Call No.: Z1220 B7 Newman 5th floor

Episcopalian records retained in parishes. For parish lines, see:

•  Axelson, A Guide To Episcopal Church Records in Virginia Call No.: F225 A9 1988 Newman 3rd floor
•  Cocke, Parish Lines: Diocese of Virginia (Virginia State Library publication no. 28) Call No.: BX5918 V8 C6 Newman 2nd floor
•  Fishwick, History of Montgomery Parish from 1856 to 1956 Call No.: BX5918 M6 F5 Special Collections and Newman folio

• Fries, Records of the Moravians in North Carolina 11 v. Call No.: F265 M8 F82 1954 Newman 3rd floor

• Berry, Our Quaker Ancestors: Finding them in Quaker Records Call No.: E184 F89 B47 1987 Newman 3rd floor
• Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy v. 6, Virginia meetings Call No.: E184 F89 H5 Newman 3rd floor