Intermediate Genealogy Workshop | Finding Women

Intermediate Genealogy Workshop | Finding Women

Friday, October 10, 2025 | 9:30am - 12:30pm
$25 ($20 for Library of Virginia members)
Registration required: https://lva-virginia.libcal.com/event/14173264

Library of Virginia senior reference archivist Cara Griggs will provide an overview of researching women in Virginia from the settlement at Jamestown to when women received the right to vote in 1920. This workshop considers the unique challenges of finding information about women in records that often focus on men, as well as laws that pertained solely to women.

Types of records covered include those kept by local courts such as deeds, wills, free registers and lists of voters; state records including those of the Auditor of Public Accounts, the State Corporation Commission and the Bureau of Vital Statistics; federal records such as census schedules and records pertaining to immigration and naturalization; military records kept at the state and federal levels; and non-public records such as registers kept by religious institutions and business ledgers.

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You may also like the following events from Library of Virginia:

• This Saturday, 4th October, 10:00 am, Archives Month Open House | Tours of the Library of Virginia in Richmond
• Next Tuesday, 7th October, 12:00 pm, Documentary Film Screening | Historic Homes of Virginia in Richmond
• Next Wednesday, 8th October, 04:00 pm, Nationalism & Cosmopolitanism in the Creation of Richmond’s Confederate Monuments in Richmond, Virginia

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