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Guide to Virgin Islands ancestry, family history and genealogy parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.

Virgin Islands may refer to an archipelago on the northeast corner of the Caribbean Sea between Puerto Rico about 60 miles (100 km) to the west, and Anguilla on the east. These islands are part of the much larger chain that helps separate the Caribbean Sea from the North Atlantic Ocean. The islands are divided into three main sections:

British Virgin Islands including Tortola, Anegad, Jost Van Dyke, and Virgin Gorda
Spanish Virgin Islands including Culebra, and Visques (part of Puerto Rico)
U.S. Virgin Islands (formerly known as the Danish Virgin Islands) including St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas

This disambiguation page lists articles about places with the same name.

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-== History ==
+''[[Caribbean]] [[Image:Gotoarrow.png]] [[Virgin Islands]]''
-The islands were named for [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ursula Saint Ursula] and the 11,000 Virgins by Christopher Columbus during his voyage of 1493–1496.
-The islands consist of an archipelago on the northeast corner of the Caribbean Sea between Puerto Rico about 60 miles to the west, and Anguilla on the east. These islands are part of the much larger chain that helps separate the Caribbean Sea from the North Atlantic Ocean. The islands are divided into three main sections:
+Guide to '''{{PAGENAME}} ancestry, family history and genealogy''' parish registers, transcripts, census records, birth records, marriage records, and death records.
-*'''[[British Virgin Islands Genealogy|British Virgin Islands]]''' : Tortola, Anegada, Jost Van Dyke, and Virgin Gorda
-*'''Spanish Virgin Islands''' : Culebra, and Visques (part of Puerto Rico)
-*'''[[United States Virgin Islands|United States Virgin Islands]]''' (known as the Danish Virgin Islands until their purchase in 1917) : St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas
-From 1625 to 1680 the Dutch West India Company controlled several islands collectively known as the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_Virgin_Islands Dutch Virgin Islands]. These included the islands of Anegada, St. Croix, Tortola, and Virgin Gorda.
+<font size="+1">'''Virgin Islands'''</font> may refer to an archipelago on the northeast corner of the Caribbean Sea between Puerto Rico about 60 miles (100 km) to the west, and Anguilla on the east. These islands are part of the much larger chain that helps separate the Caribbean Sea from the North Atlantic Ocean. The islands are divided into three main sections:
+*'''[[British Virgin Islands Genealogy|British Virgin Islands]]''' including Tortola, Anegad, Jost Van Dyke, and Virgin Gorda
+*'''Spanish Virgin Islands''' including Culebra, and Visques (part of [[Puerto Rico|Puerto Rico]])
+*'''[[U.S. Virgin Islands|U.S. Virgin Islands]] '''(formerly known as the '''Danish Virgin Islands''') including St. Croix, St. John, and St. Thomas
-[[Category:Virgin Islands, United States Files]]
+{{Geodis|Virgin Islands}}
+[[Category:Countries in the Caribbean]][[Category:Countries]][[Category:Virgin Islands]]