The Stewart Bell Jr. Archives, located at the Handley Library in Winchester, Virginia, is a local history and genealogy center focused on the history of the City of Winchester and Frederick County, Virginia, and to a lesser extent, surrounding counties. Its collections include a variety of genealogical sources such as deeds and other property and land records; birth, death, and marriage records; published genealogies; tax lists; immigration, census, and court records; and other sources such a maps, manuscript collections, newspapers, and photographs. The collections include materials from the 1730s to the present. Researchers in the Reading Room may also access Ancestry, Fold 3 and Heritage Quest databases.
The Reading Room has two public computers for searching the catalog and other sources such as databases, indexes, and pathfinders. Two microfilm readers and a copier/scanner are available for researchers to use. Fees apply for paper copies. Researchers are encouraged to bring a flash drive to save copies of materials.
