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Library of Virginia Contact Information E-mail: Contact Us Form Address: The Library of Virginia 800 East Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219 Telephone: 804-692-3500 Fax: 804-692-3556 Hours and holidays: Monday through Saturday, 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Please check our News & Events Calendar or contact us for any changes to our regular hours due to holiday closings, special events, or inclement weather. Directions, maps, and public transportation: Parking Information, Map, and Directions are found at the bottom of the page. Internet sites and databases: Internet site Online catalogue Digital collections include: Land Records Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants Vital Records Virginia Death Indexing Henley Marriage/Obituary Index to Virginia Newspapers Marriage Index for Richmond Enquirer/Richmond Visitor Obituary Index for Richmond Enquirer/Richmond Visitor Petersburg Public Library Newspaper Index Probate Records Index to Wills and Administrations Church Records Bristol Church and Family Cemeteries Index Military Records World War I World War I History Commission Questionnaires Civil War Confederate Disability Applications and Receipts Confederate Pension Rolls, Veterans and Widows Index to Confederate Veteran Magazine Index to Virginia Confederate Rosters Robert E. Lee Camp Confederate Soldiers' Home Applications for Admission War of 1812 Index to War of 1812 Pay Rolls and Muster Rolls Revolutionary War Culpeper County Classes, 1781 Dunmore's War (Virginia Payrolls/Public Service Claims, 1775) Revolutionary War Bounty Warrants Revolutionary War Land Office Military Certificates Revolutionary War Public Service Claims Revolutionary War Rejected Claims Revolutionary War Virginia State Pensions European Sources about Virginians Virginia Colonial Records Project Coats of Arms Index to Sources on Family Coats of Arms Biographies S. Bassett French Biographical Sketches WPA Life Histories Collection Collection Description Has a map collection, Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants, Dunmore's War Collection, and Blandford Cemetery Survey Records Collection. Tips To order materials by mail or fax, please print and complete the applicable forms from the categories listed below, and return them to the Library of Virginia with payment. A fee of $25.00 is charged for all returned checks. Fax orders: 804-692-3556 When planning a trip to the Richmond area, we recommend you check out the Richmond Metropolitan Convention and Visitors Bureau. Please also check our calendar to ensure the Library will be open and available to the public during your planned visit. Guides These items are available: Research guides; Newspapers guides; Census Records Guides; and Using the Library of Virginia Collections Guides. Alternate Repositories If you cannot visit or find a record at the Library of Virginia, a similar record may be available at one of the following. Similar Collections Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records. Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, Canadians. Neighboring Collections Virginia Historical Society, . National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees. Daughters of the American Revolution Library, Washington DC, Revolutionary War and colonial period, including family and local histories, cemetery transcriptions, Bible records, 15,000 genealogical membership applications. Maryland State Archives, census, court, church, vital, military, probate, land, tax, immigration, naturalizations. Sources