Index to Printed Virginia Genealogies Including Key and Bibliography

Essential to the Virginia researcher this celebrated book consists of an alphabetical surname index to all works published prior to 1930 containing genealogies of Virginia families. In all there are about 6000 family names with more than 18000 references each keyed to the work containing the pedigree-whether book magazine lineage paper or newspaper. Genealogical research in Virginia thus begins with this book for it provides the first part of the answer to any question as to what material has already been compiled on a particular family. The work is enhanced with an added Foreword by John Frederick Dorman the dean of Virginia genealogists.