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Fairfax Circuit Court Historical Records
Holdings and contact information for Circuit Court historical records (from 1742 to the early 1900s), and links to information on later county records.

Fairfax County Asian American History Project
This group researches and preserves the experiences of Asian Americans who live in Fairfax County.

Fairfax County Inventory of Historic Sites
Lists more than 340 historically significant sites, ranging from little known to internationally famous.

Fairfax County Road Orders, 1749-1800
Road orders list the names of many of those living on or near a road, and contain information about roads, farms, landmarks and water features. A great source, especially for the pre-census years, from the Historic Roads of Virginia series published by the Virginia Transportation Research Council.

Fairfax County School Board Minutes
Searchable images of minutes from 1920 to the present.

Fairfax County Slave and Free Colored Births, 1853-1871

Fairfax County Stories 1607-2007
An anthology of stories and essays about Fairfax County, prepared as part of the celebration of Virginia's 400th anniversary. The site includes links to other sources. Based on the book, Fairfax County Stories, 1607-2007, which is available at all branches of the Fairfax County Public Library.

Fairfax County Tax Lists
Images of the 1789 Personal Property Tax List are an alternative to the missing 1790 census.

Fairfax County Time Machine
Aerial photographs show how three areas of Fairfax County changed from farmland to metropolis.

Historical Postcards of Fairfax, Virginia
The Randolph H. Lytton Historical Postcards of Fairfax, Virginia Collection features Fairfax City and Fairfax County businesses, institutions, government buildings, schools and other places of interest. Many of the cards show Fairfax motels, especially those along the Route 29 / Route 50 corridor. The collection contains about 200 postcards.

Local History Books
A list of local history, genealogy and historic preservation books currently available for sale from the Fairfax County Maps and Publications Center. All items also are available for borrowing from the library's collection.

Northern Virginia History Notes
A collection of articles about historic places in Fairfax, Loudoun and Prince William counties by local historian, Debbie Robison.

Tithables in Fairfax County
This transcription of a 1749 tithables list is presented by the Fairfax County Daughters of the American Revolution.

War of 1812 Military Service and Veterans
The Fairfax Genealogical Society has compiled military and genealogical information on Fairfax County's soldiers of the War of 1812.

Directory of Virginia Historical Societies
Provided by the Library of Virginia.

Fairfax Genealogical Society

Falls Church Village Preservation and Improvement Society

Great Falls Historical Society

Gum Springs Historical Society

Herndon Historical Society

Historic Fairfax City, Inc.
The Fairfax City preservation organization site includes a newsletter featuring historic buildings and events.

Historic Vienna, Inc.

Historical Society of Fairfax County, Virginia
The society's Web site includes a publications list and links to a brief county history and interactive historical tour.

Mount Vernon Genealogical Society

Tinner Hill Heritage Foundation
The story of an African American community near Falls Church.

Virginia Genealogical Society
The Society's Web site includes information on conferences and publications, and many useful links to genealogy resources, databases and societies.

Virginia Historical Society
The Virginia Historical Society's online catalog of books, manuscripts and photographs also includes an index to many Virginia historical magazines.

Alexandria Black History Museum
The Museum's Watson Reading Room permits visitors to use a growing collection of books, periodicals, oral histories and videos on African American history.

Alexandria Library
Includes searchable genealogy indexes, photographs, house histories and more. Many Fairfax County and Northern Virginia residents are included.

Arlington Public Library
Includes collection guides and a photographic tour.

Central Rappahannock Regional Library (Fredericksburg, Virginia)
Includes searchable articles, indexes and pictures. Many families have Fairfax County connections. There is also an extensive section of information on African American families.

District of Columbia Public Library
The Washingtoniana Collection includes a collection guide and useful links. Many Fairfax County families have close ties to Washington, DC.

Loudoun County
The Thomas Balch Library of Leesburg is home of the collections on Leesburg and Loudoun County. Includes a searchable cemetery database with more than 27,000 entries.

Prince William Public Library System
The Web site of the Ruth E. Lloyd Information Center, or RELIC, includes a collection guide, quarterly newsletter and an index to recent newspapers. The library system also provides a Digital Library, which includes a selection of birth, marriage and death records, and indexes to historic sites, photographs and maps.

17th Virginia Infantry, Company D, "Fairfax Rifles"
This re-enactment unit's site includes a regimental history and roster for many Civil War soldiers from the Fairfax area. The1861 Muster includes brief biographies from William Page Johnson's book, Brothers and Cousins: Confederate Soldiers and Sailors of Fairfax County, Virginia.

Blenheim
The walls of Blenheim, a Fairfax City farmhouse, bear the signatures and graffiti of Union soldiers who occupied the house in 1862-1863. Many of the soldiers were from Pennsylvania, New York, Michigan and Wisconsin regiments.

Chasing the Civil War: A Pathfinder
A guide to many sources for local Civil War research, including finding an ancestor's service record and burial. Includes information on local battles. Search strategies are applicable to Fairfax County events. The Virginia Room at City of Fairfax Regional Library owns most of these sources, however, call numbers may vary.

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Fairfax City Cemetery
A list of Confederate veterans buried in Fairfax City Cemetery. The list also includes those named on the cemetery's Confederate Memorial, which includes Fairfax Confederate veterans who are buried elsewhere. Six Union veterans are also listed. Site includes a history of the cemetery.  Note: This is not a complete list of all those interred in the cemetery.

Loudoun County Virginia in the American Revolution 1774-1783
This Web site for Loudoun County's Revolutionary War information includes some Fairfax County residents. Each of the names in the index is linked to databases that contain information on service in the militia or Continental Army, patriotic service or civil service.

Military Records and Resources
The Library of Virginia chronicles Virginians' participation in wars from the colonial era to World War II.

Society of the War of 1812 in Virginia
Includes a "Burial Index" of soldiers.

Sons of Confederate Veterans, Frank Stringfellow Camp
The local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The site includes a biography of local Civil War hero Frank Stringfellow.

They Died in Centreville
A study of Union casualties who died and/or were buried in Centreville, Virginia, based on Union service, hospital and regimental records.

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WWI Draft Registrations for Northern Virginia
Entries include name, age, address, date of birth, place of birth, occupation, employer, dependents, marital status, race, prior military experience and more. Some registrations also include father's place of birth, nearest relative and a physical description.

1790 & 1800 County Tax Lists of Virginia
Searchable images of land and personal property tax lists serve as alternatives to the lost 1790 and 1800 censuses.

African-American Sources in Virginia: A Guide to Manuscripts
This index to sources in collections around the state can be rapidly searched by keyword, subject, name, historical period or geographic location.

Civil War Sesquicentennial Commission
Information and events to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. Includes a link to Civil War entries from the Encyclopedia Virginia. Many events are in or near Fairfax County.

County Formation Maps
Follow county formation and boundary changes from 1617 to 1995.

Geography of Slavery in Virginia
A digital collection of runaway and captured advertisements taken from early newspapers. Helpful for anyone with an ancestor who was enslaved or who was an indentured servant or a convict servant.

Gunston Hall Probate Inventory Database
Gunston Hall's Probate Inventory Database includes household inventories of more than 300 selected individuals from Virginia and Maryland. The estates were recorded between 1740 and 1810, and were selected as "individuals with an economic status approximately that of George Mason." Most were recorded in Fairfax, Prince William, and Stafford Counties in Virginia and in Charles and Prince George's Counties in Maryland, but some are from as far away as the Northern Neck, Norfolk or Annapolis.

Hening's Statutes at Large
Early volumes of the laws of Virginia, beginning with 1619. Includes linked indexes of personal names, places and subjects.

History of Truro Parish in Virginia
Based on the parish's Vestry Books for the area along the Potomac from the Occoquan to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The records are continuous from 1732 to 1785, and include the names of many colonial residents. This book also contains records of the Overseers of the Poor from 1787 to 1802.

How to Research Your Historic Virginia Property
Discover the history of your old, or not so old house.

Legislative Petitions, 1776-1860
Virginia residents petitioned the General Assembly from 1774 to 1865. While the "petitioner index" includes only the principal people named in a petition, the full text will include original signatures of all interested parties. The full text of Fairfax County petitions is available on microfilm in the library's Virginia Room.

Library of Virginia
The site includes a catalog of books, archival materials, microfilm and extensive digital collections. Also useful is the Virginia Historical Inventory, part of the depression-era Virginia Writer's Project.

Loudoun County Circuit Court Archives
Searchable index to Loudoun County records. Wills, marriages, military and slave records are part of this growing collection, which includes many Fairfax County residents.

Loudoun County History
A searchable database of articles about Loudoun County places and events.

Online Searchable Death Indexes & Records
Online death indexes and cemetery records for many parts of Virginia.

Register of Servants Sent to Foreign Plantations, 1654 - 1686
This database of indenture contracts includes more than 15,000 indentured servants, English immigrants who contracted themselves for labor to come to the New World. Many sailed to Virginia and the Chesapeake region and others to the West Indies.

Richmond Daily Dispatch, 1861 - 1865
A searchable index linked to full-text articles. Includes news from Fairfax and Northern Virginia.

Tombstone Transcription Project
Links to cemetery listings for Virginia counties and independent cities. Prepared by volunteers for RootsWeb.com's Tombstone Transcription Project.

Virginia Gazette
An index with linked images of more than 8,000 pages of The Virginia Gazette, published in Williamsburg from 1736-1780. The news and advertisements also include people and places outside of Williamsburg. This database is part of Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Digital Library.

Virginia Genealogy
This guide, subtitled A Guide to Genealogical Resources at the University of Virginia, describes book, online and other sources for Virginia research. Many of these sources are available in our library's Virginia Room.

Virginia GenWeb
Links to maps, a tombstone project, county links, a surname registry and a Virginia GenWeb archives search.

Virtual Jamestown
This site from the University of Virginia includes information on Jamestown settlers and the Virginia Company, maps, muster rolls, and more.

The William & Mary College Quarterly Historical Magazine
Selected full-text articles from the early years of the The William & Mary Quarterly (1892 - 1919) containing primary source information from colonial Virginia records.

Congressional Cemetery
Some Northern Virginia residents and their ancestors are buried at Congressional Cemetery in Southeast Washington. The site includes death certificates, gravestone photographs and obituaries.

District of Columbia Vital Records Office
The Vital Records Office is the source of birth and death records. Marriage and divorce records are available at the District of Columbia Superior Court Marriage Bureau.

Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Includes a searchable library catalog.

Washington as it Was: Photographs by Theodor Horydczak, 1923-1959
More than 14,000 photographs of Washington, D.C. and the suburbs from the 1920s to the 1950s. Photos include street scenes and neighborhoods, as well as exteriors and interiors of commercial, residential and government buildings.

Washington, D.C. GenWeb
Includes links to many primary source records.