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Save money with this four-CD set of Virginia Genealogy Records!

Over the years, we have published hundreds of collections of Virginia source records and compiled genealogies: Books like Lyon Tyler's massive 5-volume Encyclopedia of Virginia Genealogy and John Gwathmey's definitive Catalogue of Revolutionary Soldiers and Sailors of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Clayton Torrence's celebrated index, Virginia Wills and Administrations, 1632-1800, is just one of our many definitive sourcebooks that provide Virginia family historians with authoritative time-saving research aids. In fact, most of our Virginia books are the pre-eminent books on their subjects.

You'll find the Tyler, Gwathmey, and Torrence volumes plus 40 other titles (many of them multi-volume works) on the four CD-ROM publications included in this set. With these CDs you can acquire an outstanding collection of Virginia titles at a fraction of the cost of the books imaged and indexed on them, as well as a savings of $50.00 off the cost of the individual CDs.

Below are detailed descriptions of the four CDs that make up this phenomenal set:

Colonial Virginia Source Records identifies 350,000 individuals in a unique collection of colonial Virginia source records, namely, wills and administrations, marriage records, family histories, tax records, newspaper abstracts, and military records. In all, this CD contains images of the pages of 10 books originally published by GPC. Among the 10 are some of the most important Virginia reference books ever published, many of them classics!

Virginia Genealogies and Biographies, a two-disc CD set, identifies some 310,000 individuals in meticulously crafted studies that span as many as three centuries. Until now this body of material has been totally beyond the reach of the ordinary researcher, available only at a handful of public and university libraries. Drawing liberally on private letters, diaries, and manuscripts, as well as church records, newspapers, and personal reminiscences, this is one of the best-documented collections of Virginia genealogies and biographies ever assembled.

Virginia Colonial Records, which names nearly a quarter-million Virginians living in the colony between 1607 and 1776, is the largest and most complete collection of Virginia colonial records ever assembled on CD. 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 spouses, 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. This rich CD is derived from 13 prominent Virginia genealogical reference works.

Virginia Military Records: Colonial Wars, Revolutionary War, War of 1812 contains a definitive collection of books dealing with the military records of Virginia in the colonial wars, the Revolutionary War, and the War of 1812. Naming 275,000 members of the militia and the established army, the books included on this CD are the undisputed favorites in their respective fields. From Lloyd Bockstruck's Virginia Colonial Soldiers, to John Gwathmey's Historical Register of Virginians in the Revolution, to the monumental Muster Rolls and Payrolls of Virginia Militia in the War of 1812, the contents of this CD cover the entire spectrum of Virginia's early military history.