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This is the largest and most complete collection of Virginia colonial records ever assembled on CD-ROM, representing the combined efforts of several generations of talented and dedicated genealogists. Anyone with suspected colonial Virginia ancestry will almost certainly find something of interest here in the form of original source records, manuscripts, lineage records, or family histories, for this Family Archive CD contains a treasure-trove of records that identify many of Virginia's earliest immigrants and settlers.

From records of immigration, headright records, land and tax records, and early census records, to records of the colonial militia, vital records of birth, marriage, and death, and court records of wills, deeds, and administrations, this CD has it all--English origins, dates and places of immigration, places of residence in the new colony, names of wives, children, and other family members, occupations, ages, military service records--it even has the names of the earliest landholders in Virginia, lists of Virginia's original immigrants and settlers, and the names of those who were listed in the colony's first census of 1623/24. It also boasts a comprehensive list of Virginia's colonial militiamen, giving data pertaining to each soldier's place of birth, age, residence, occupation, and physical description, and a huge collection of records extracted from England's Public Record Office establishing the colonists' family connections with the mother country and their former places of residence, as well as deeds, wills, and other records recorded in English courts.

Naming nearly a quarter-million Virginians living in the colony between 1607 and 1776, this CD is designed to simplify genealogical research by combining the images of pages of selected volumes published by the Genealogical Publishing Company with a single electronic name index which allows you to search all the volumes quickly and effortlessly. Thus a search on a single name will turn up all references to that name found in any of the following volumes:

* Virginia's Colonial Soldiers, by Lloyd Bockstruck

* Virginia's Colonial Militia, 1651-1776, by William Armstrong Crozier

* List of the Colonial Soldiers of Virginia, by Hamilton J. Eckenrode

* Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants, 1623-1666, by Nell Marion Nugent

* Early Virginia Immigrants, 1623-1666, by George Cabell Greer

* Virginia Colonial Abstracts (34 vols.), by Beverly Fleet

* Virginia Gleanings in England, by Lothrop Withington

* Personal Names in Hening"s Statutes at Large of Virginia, by Joseph J. Casey

* English Duplicates of Lost Virginia Records, by Louis Des Cognets, Jr.

* The Quit Rents of Virginia, 1704, by Annie. L. W. Smith

* Some Emigrants to Virginia, by William G. Stanard

* The Colonial Virginia Register, by William G. and Mary N. Stanard

* Colonial Records of Virginia, Committee of the Virginia State Library

Featuring records of every description, from supposedly "lost" records to records of "burnt counties," and from records of forced transportation to the invaluable records of "headright" used in support of land acquisition, this CD is an unrivalled tool in the researcher's arsenal of colonial reference works.

System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at http://www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled "About this Family Archive" appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16, you must go to the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD. For FTM 2008 or higher, you must download the Family Archive Viewer.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.

See also these Virginia books and CDs:
Early Virginia Immigrants
Adventurers of Purse and Person Virginia, 1607-1624/5
Colonial Virginia Source Records [CD]
Virginia Genealogies and Biographies [CD]