Genealogy Research

Genealogy Collection and Eastern Shore Tales Research Links

• Chincoteague Oral Histories
  
• Delmarva Settlers
• American Origins
• Eastern Shore Stuff
• Eastern Shore Heritage
• Genealogy and History of the Eastern Shore
• Accomac Roots
• Island Bones (Chincoteague Cemeteries Online)
• Virginia Center for Digital History
• Free African Americans of VA, NC, SC, MD, and DE  
  
  

Mears Collection

• Introduction
• Main Menu
• References

Miles Files

• Introduction
• Main Data File
  
  

Langs of Accomack

Nock Family Heritage

Legislators from Accomack & Northampton Counties

• Colonial Period
• National Period
• Roster
  
  

Digital Imaging & Indexing Project

• Accomack County Court Records
• Accomack County, Virginia, Marriage Registry No. 4, 1896-1925
• 1800 Federal Census, Accomack County, Virginia, St. Georges Parish (A-K)
• 1800 Federal Census, Accomack County, Virginia, St. Georges Parish (K contd -Y)
• 1800 Federal Census, Accomack County, Virginia, Accomack Parish (A-J)
• 1800 Federal Census, Accomack County, Virginia, Accomack Parish (J contd -Y)
  

Marriage and Death Notices

• Death Notices 1881-1912
• Marriage Notices 1881-1912
  
  

The Countryside Transformed

• The Railroad and the Eastern Shore of Virginia, 1870-1935. A joint project of the Eastern Shore Public Library and of the Virginia Center for Digital History at the University of Virginia.
• The Countryside Transformed: The Eastern Shore of Virginia, the Pennsylvania Railroad, and the Creation of a Modern Landscape
• Genesis of a Railroad Town: Parksley, Virginia, 1884-1904  An interactive website tracing the development of Parksley from the town's beginnings with the coming of the railroad in 1884 and the formation of the Parksley Land and Improvement Company (PLIC) in 1885 to its incorporation in 1904.
  
  

EASTERN SHORE STORIES 

Oral histories from the eastern shore

Eastern Shore History Portal

• Listing of links to local history websites.
  
  

Historical Highway Markers

Accomack County VA Historical Highway Markers

Northern Neck-Middle Peninsula and Eastern Shore Region  

Tales From the Eastern Shore

• A Journey to the Eastern Shore
• Roger Michael - Eastern Shore's Own Pirate
• Henry Smith - Eastern Shore's Meanest Man
• A Mule, Mirror & Other Disasters
• Tippling Houses and Ordinaries
• Udderly Milked Dry
• Gloopmaker
• A Terrapin Supper
• Whitelaw Expanded
• Tobacco as Money
  
  

Personal Digital Preservation

http://www.digitalpreservation.gov/you/