VGS Webinar: A New Virginia Resource: What It is and What It Isn’t with Barbara Vines Little [12 Jun 2024]

Sources are important—we need to know what records are available and where they can be found. But, unless we understand the background and the law as it applies to the records, we will miss important clues and even lose our way because we assume things that are not so. It takes time and experience to learn the ins and outs of research in a particular area. A new resource is at hand, one that packs between its covers the information with examples that is normally presented in a one-week institute course. Join me for a peek inside.

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Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FUGA, FVGS, a professional genealogist, has lectured over the past thirty-plus years at conferences in thirty-two states on research methodology, Virginia and West Virginia resources and writing and publishing. Editor of the quarterly Magazine of Virginia Genealogy since 1996 and winner of the NGS Quarterly Award of excellence in 2001 and 2022, she has written articles for a number of publications including the New England Historical and Genealogical Register, the National Genealogical Society Newsletter, and the Board for Certification of Genealogists’ newsletter, OnBoard. The current editor of National Genealogical Society’s Research in the States series, she is the author of the West Virginia volume and has published three volumes of Virginia court records and edited others for publication. She served as coordinator and instructor for VIGR (Virginia Institute of Genealogical Research) Track II, 1996–2004 and as the coordinator and instructor of the Virginia track for Samford University’s Institute for Genealogy and Historical Research (IGHR) from 2007–2012 and the 2017, 2020, and 2023 Virginia track at SLIG (Salt Lake Institute of Genealogy). A member of the board of the Library of Virginia and a former board member of the Orange County Historical Society, she is a former board member and president of both the National Genealogical Society and the Virginia Genealogical Society.

VGS live webinars are open to all. Though webinar handouts are usually only available for VGS members, Barbara has graciously made the handout for this webinar available to all. You can download it here. However, the recording for is a VGS member benefit. Please do not share the links to webinar recordings with non-VGS members. Webinars are held the second Wednesday of February, April, June, August, and December at 7 p.m. Eastern Time.