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Projects

• Tidewater Virginia Families quarterly journal      ($)
• Essex Co. Virginia      (Source: American Local History Network)
• Essex County, Virginia      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• VAGenWeb's Essex County Project      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Caroline County, VA  to the west
• King and Queen County, VA  to the south
• King George County, VA  to the north
• Middlesex County, VA  to the southeast
• Richmond County, VA  to the east
• Westmoreland County, VA  to the northeast

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Essex County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Essex County GEDCOM Index 
• Genealogies--Virginia--Essex County      (Source: The Library of Virginia)
• Tidewater Virginia Families      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Tidewater Virginia Families: Generations Beyond  Adding the Families of Alsobrook, Bibb, Edwards, Favor, Gray, Hux, Ironmonger, Laker, Southern, Taylor, and Woolfolk     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Essex County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Essex County  Virginia Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Essex County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Essex County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Essex County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Essex County, VA Cemeteries 
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (20)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Essex County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Estate Records

• Virginia Colonial Abstracts  includes Essex County Wills and Deeds, 1711-1717     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

History (14)

Introduction and Guides

• County Records Availability      (Source: Genealogy, Inc.)
• Cyndi's List of Tidewater Area links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Cyndi's List of Virginia locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Essex County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Essex County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Essex County Records      (Source: The Records Project)
• Essex County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Essex Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Land Records

• Virginia Colonial Abstracts  includes Essex County Wills and Deeds, 1711-1717     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Virginia Land Records  includes Gleanings from the Records of (Old) Rappahannock County and Essex County, Va.     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Essex County Museum 
• Essex County Museum & Historical Society 
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• A Guide to Virginia County and City Records on Microfilm  Essex County     (Source: The Library of Virginia)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Essex County, Virginia     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

• Essex County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• Essex County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Essex County, VA Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• VAESSEX-L Essex County genealogy

  • VAESSEX-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • VAESSEX-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • VAESSEX-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• VATGS-L Virginia Tidewater Genealogical Society

  • VATGS-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • VATGS-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • VATGS-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• VATIDEWATER-L Tidewater area genealogy

  • VATIDEWATER-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • VATIDEWATER-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • VATIDEWATER-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Essex County      (Source: 1895 U.S. Atlas)
• Essex County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Essex County Post Offices 
• Essex County Post Offices  1846     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Essex County Postal Covers      ($)
• Essex County Topo Maps and Aerial Photos      (Source: Trails.com)
• Quad List of Tappahannock, Virginia      (Source: Maptech Historical Maps)
• Tiger Map Server Browser 

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Essex County, Virginia     (Source: Internet Archive)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Essex County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Essex County, Virginia  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Essex County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Essex County Records  The Antient Press     ($)
• Essex County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Essex County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Southern Claims Commission  Essex County, Virginia     (Source: Footnote)
• Tidewater Virginia Families: A Magazine of History and Genealogy Vols. 1-5      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Virginia Colonial Abstracts  includes Essex County Records, 1703-1706     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Virginia Colonial Abstracts  Volume II     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Virginia Land Records  includes Some Memoranda from Essex County, Va., Records     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Newspaper Records

• Essex County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Essex County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Historical Postcards of Essex County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Northern Neck of Virginia  Postcards Page
• Virginia--Essex County--Tappahannock.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Virginia--Essex County.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Essex County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Edenatta      (Source: Sankofa's Afrikan Slave Genealogy)
• Essex County      (Source: Sankofagen Wiki)
• Essex County, Virginia  1860 slaveholders and 1870 African Americans     (Source: Large Slaveholders of 1860 and African American Surname Matches from 1870)

Societies

• Essex County Museum & Historical Society 
• Essex County Museum & Historical Society 
• Tidewater Genealogy Society 

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (127)

Tax Lists

• The "1790" & "1800" Tax Lists      (Source: Virginia Tax Lists)
• Virginia Tax Records  includes An Annotated Copy of the Rent Roll of 1704, Quit Rent Roll for the Year 1715 and True and Exact Poll of the Election of Burgesses (1741)     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Virginia Tax Records  includes Virginia Quit Rent Rolls, 1704: Essex County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Virginia Tax Records      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Essex County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Patents  Essex County, Virginia     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Essex County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)
• Essex County, Virginia Marriages, 1655-1900      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia  1655 - 1900     (Source: World Vital Records)     ($)
• Index to Marriages of Old Rappahannock and Essex Counties, Virginia, 1655-1900      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• U.S. Federal Census Mortality Schedules, 1850-1880  Essex County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Virginia Marriage Records  includes Marriage Licenses in Essex County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Virginia Marriage Records  includes Essex, 1692-95     (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)

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