ÿþ<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE> The Virginia Colonial Records Project </TITLE> <META NAME = "DESCRIPTION" CONTENT = "Colonial Virginia records"> </HEAD> <BODY BACKGROUND = "wov_ltyw.gif" VLink = "#FF0000" ALINK = "#000000"> <CENTER><H1><I>The Virginia Colonial Records Project</I> </H1> </CENTER> <CENTER><P><IMG SRC = "wood.gif" ALIGN = "BOTTOM" BORDER = "0" VSPACE = "0" HSPACE = "0"></CENTER> <H3><I>The Virginia Colonial Records Project was established in the 1950s by the Virginia Historical Society, the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, the University of Virginia Library, and the Library of Virginia to reconsitute the archive of Virginia's colonial history--a documentary record decimated by war and fire during the Old Dominion's first three centuries.*<BR><BR>Between 1955 and 1985, project agents visited more than one hundred libraries and archives in Great Britain, Ireland, and France to survey their collections for Virginia related documents. Agents reported their findings about pertinent records on Survey Reports from which the project ordered microfilm of many original documents. The project has generated 14,704 of these Survey Reports (which vary in length from one to more than one hundred pages) and acquired 963 reels of microfilmed documents <P> <CENTER><P><IMG SRC = "wood.gif" ALIGN = "BOTTOM" BORDER = "0" VSPACE = "0" HSPACE = "0"> <CENTER><H3><I>Virginia Family Research<BR><A HREF = "index.html"></I>HOME</A> </H3> </CENTER><CENTER><hr size=7 width=75%></CENTER> <CENTER><B><FONT FACE=ARIAL size="2" color="black"> <!-- Begin BannersGoMLM.com Code --> <table width="500" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td><a href="http://www.BannersGoMLM.com/cgi-bin/ads/left/ads_nonssi.pl?advert=NonSSI&page=virginiafamilyresearch.10" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.BannersGoMLM.com/cgi-bin/ads/left/ads_nonssi.pl?ID=bgmlm&page=virginiafamilyresearch.10" width="250" height="72" border="0"></a></td> <td><a href="http://www.BannersGoMLM.com/cgi-bin/ads/right/ads_nonssi.pl?advert=NonSSI&page=virginiafamilyresearch.10" target="_blank"> <img src="http://www.BannersGoMLM.com/cgi-bin/ads/right/ads_nonssi.pl?ID=bgmlm&page=virginiafamilyresearch.10" width="250" height="72" border="0"></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"><a href="http://BannersGoMLM.com/cgi-bin/ref/index.cgi?dist=virginiafamilyresearch" target="_blank"> <img src="http://BannersGoMLM.com/images/codebottom.gif" width="500" height="19" border="0"></a></td> </tr> </table> <P> <!-- End BannersGoMLM.com Code --> *www.virginiafamilyresearch.com is the internet domain name of James & Karen Ward<BR> operating on the internet as <I>Virginia Family Research.</I><CENTER><H4>Revised: Sept 2010</H4></CENTER> </BODY> </HTML>