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The Library of Virginia has prepared a list of [http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/AA_newspaper_holdings.pdf African-American Newspapers] they hold.
The Library of Virginia has prepared a list of [http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/AA_newspaper_holdings.pdf African-American Newspapers] they hold.
== Societies ==
*[http://www2.vcdh.virginia.edu/fbr/About_GenealogyGroup.shtml '''African American Genealogy Group of Charlottesville and Albemarle County''']. Website includes register of free negroes, local African American cemeteries.
*[https://sites.google.com/site/centralvirginiachapteraahgs/home '''Afro-American Historical and Genealogical Society (AAHGS), Chapter of Central Virginia'''
*'''AAHGS, Chapter of Greater Richmond''', P.O. Box 27833, Richmond, VA 23261
*[http://aahgshr.blogspot.com/ '''AAHGS, Chapter of Hampton Roads''']
*[https://sites.google.com/site/bbschapterofva/home '''AAHGS, Chapter of Burke Brown Steppe''']
*[http://www.aahafauquier.org/ '''Afro-American Historical Association of Fauquier County''']
*[http://mpaagenealogicalsociety.org/ '''Middle Peninsula African-American Genealogical & Historical Society of Virginia'''] serves the counties of Essex, Middlesex, King and Queen, King William and the Northern Neck (King George, Lancaster, Northumberland, Richmond and Westmoreland counties).


== Websites  ==
== Websites  ==
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*[http://www.afrigeneas.com/states/va/ African Ancestry in Virginia] at [http://www.afrigeneas.com/ Afrigeneas] includes a concise history of black people in the state. The site includes links to databases for several record sets.  
*[http://www.afrigeneas.com/states/va/ African Ancestry in Virginia] at [http://www.afrigeneas.com/ Afrigeneas] includes a concise history of black people in the state. The site includes links to databases for several record sets.  
*[http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/projects/bell/ J. F. Bell Funeral Home Records, Charlottesville, VA 1917-1989]  
*[http://www.virginia.edu/woodson/projects/bell/ J. F. Bell Funeral Home Records, Charlottesville, VA 1917-1989]  
*[http://www.accomacroots.com/default.asp African American History of Accomac County, Virginia] at Accomac Roots. Includes genealogy, census data, tax lists, indentures, cemeteries, maps, pictures, documents, and sources.
*[http://www.accomacroots.com/default.asp African American History of Accomac County, Virginia] at Accomac Roots. Includes genealogy, census data, tax lists, indentures, cemeteries, maps, pictures, documents, and sources.  
*[http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=592631&word= History of the American Negro, Virginia edition ]See page 728.  
*[http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/dgkeysearchresult.cfm?parent_id=592631&word= History of the American Negro, Virginia edition ]See page 728.  
*[http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas13&local_base=CLAS13 World War I History Commission Questionnaires].[http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/wwiqabout.htm Read more about the questionnaires.]  
*[http://lva1.hosted.exlibrisgroup.com/F/?func=file&file_name=find-b-clas13&local_base=CLAS13 World War I History Commission Questionnaires].[http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/guides/opac/wwiqabout.htm Read more about the questionnaires.]  
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