Williamsburg Virginia Family History Center
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| 2017 Newman Road Williamsburg, VA 23188
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| Tues: 9:30am - 12:30pm and 6:30pm to 9pm Wed: 6:30pm – 9:00pm Thur: 9:30am – 12:30pm 2nd, 4th, and 5th Sat: 9:30am – 12:30pm CLOSED 1st and 3rd Saturdays |
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NOTICE: Our hours have changed! Effective August 2016, we will no longer be open on the first and third Saturdays of each month. Please see the info box for our new hours.
Upcoming Events[edit | edit source]
See our Events page for more details.
Third Thursday Brown Bag[edit | edit source]
Google Translate for Genealogy
Thursday, November 17, noon
See the Events page to learn more about sessions and presenters.
RootsMagic User Group[edit | edit source]
November 17, 2016 - 10:00 am
Topic TBA
Recent Presentations[edit | edit source]
Click on the presentation title to view and print the handout. Documents are in PDF format.
For more handouts, see our Presentation Handouts page.
September 2016 - [[::Media:2016-09 Poznan Project German and Polish Marriage Index.pdf|Poznan Project - Polish and German Marriage Index, 1800-1899]]
August 2016 - Finding Williamsburg/James City County Ancestors
July 2016 - Collection-specific Search Strategies
Resources[edit | edit source]
Our Family History Center features:
- Personal assistance
- Informative lectures and events
- Lexmark multi-function printer/scanner with direct scan to FamilySearch Family Tree
- Access to 2.3 million rolls of microfilm through the Salt Lake Family History Library
- ScanPro digital film/fiche reader
- Story Catcher interactive video interview terminal
- NMI 2020 microfilm readers
- Canon Lide flatbed scanner
- Wifi access
- 5 computer workstations
Our computer workstations provide free access to subscription genealogy websites including:
- Access Newspaper Archive
- American Civil War Online
- Ancestry.com
- ArkivDigital online (Swedish church records)
- findmypast (UK/Ireland/US/World Research, PERSI)
- Fold3.com (US National Archives records)
- MyHeritage.com (includes WorldVitalRecords and Mocavo data)
- NewspaperArchive.com
- ProQuest Obituary Collection
- 19th Century British Newspapers
Check out our ScanPro 2000 digital microfilm/fiche reader! The reader, and its accompanying computer, printer, and scanner represent top-of-the-line technology for viewing, printing, and saving images from FamilySearch microfilms and fiche.
If you’ve never used microfilm before in your research, take five minutes to learn how to use the FamilySearch Catalog. Go to FamilySearch.org and click on Learn. A short video shows you how to use a Place Search or Last Name Search to locate microfilms that might be helpful to you in your research.
Once you find a film that you’d like to view, you can order it online at FamilySearch.org/films. If you need help with Online Film Ordering, stop by the FHC and we’ll help. You'll get an e-mail notification when the film arrives.
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This article describes the services and resources available at a Family History Center, a branch facility of the Family History Library. |
