Federal Census: 1790, 1810 – 1940

 

-          Very Helpful (microfiche)

 

Agricultural Census: 1850-1870

 

-          Somewhat helpful; limited information out of context (microfiche)

 

Personal Property Tax List: 1790, 1800

 

-          Somewhat helpful; limited information out of context (microfiche)

 

Loudoun County. Farms of Loudoun: A Loudoun County Directory of Farm Products and Services.Leesburg, Virginia: Loudoun County Agricultural Development Office, Dept of Economic Development, 1991.

 

-          Somewhat helpful

 

Loudoun County Jaycees. Loudoun County Farm Directory. Purcellville, Virginia: Loudoun County Junior Chamber of Commerce, 1955.

 

-          Somewhat helpful

 

Costantino, Roberto. Colonial Catoctin Volume I: The Fairfax Family and Freeholders of Piedmont Manor and Shannondale Manor, Loudoun County, Virginia Land Book, 1743-1820. New Orleans: Loyola University, 2006.

 

-          Somewhat helpful

 

Costantino, Roberto Valerio. Colonial Catoctin Volume II: The Fairfax Family and the Freeholders of Piedmont Manor and Shannondale Manor : Loudoun County, Virginia. Westminster, Md.: Willow Bend Books, 2006.

 

-          Somewhat helpful

 

Costantino, Roberto. Colonial Catoctin Volume I: The Fairfax Family and Freeholders of Piedmont Manor and Shannondale Manor, Loudoun County, Virginia Land Book, 1743-1820. New Orleans: Loyola University, 2006.

 

-          Very helpful; project specific

 

Duncan, Patricia B. Loudoun County, Virginia Will Book Index, 1757-1946. Westminster, MD.: Willow Bend Books, 2001.

 

-          Very helpful

 

Duncan, Patricia B., and Elizabeth R. Frain. Loudoun County, Virginia Marriages after 1850. Westminster, Md.: Willow Bend Books, 2000.

 

-          Not helpful; project specific

 

Virginia Memory: Library of Virginia – Chancery Suits Index

 

-          Somewhat helpful; could prove very helpful for other topics or for future research. The records I was looking at were not transcribed so it was very difficult to read the old handwritten records. It was great to see the facsimile of the records though to put them into context.

 

Digital Collections: Library of Virginia – Legislative Petitions Digital Collection

 

-          Somewhat helpful; could prove very helpful for other topics or for future research. Same pros/cons as with the chancery suits index.

 

Virginia Chamber of Commerce Photograph Collection – Library of Virginia

 

-          Not helpful; project specific

 

Virginia Colonial Records Project – Library of Virginia

 

-          Not helpful; project specific. Could prove very helpful for other topics.

 

Virginia Land Office Patents and Grants/Northern Neck Grants and Surveys – Library of Virginia

 

-          Not very helpful; project specific. Could prove very helpful for other researchers.

 

WPA Historical Houses Drawings Digital Collection – Library of Virginia

 

-          Not helpful; project specific

 

Duncan, Patricia. Index to Loudoun County, Virginia Land Deed Books (1757-1840). Westminster, Md.: Willow Bend Books, 2006.

 

-          Extremely helpful

 

Deeds and Wills – Thomas Balch Library (microfilm)

 

-          Very helpful, but very difficult to search through as they have not been transcribed

 

Historic House Files – Thomas Balch Library

 

-          Not helpful

 

Newspaper Records – Thomas Balch Library (microfiche with digitized archival listings)
 

-          Blue Ridge Herald – very helpful

-          Loudoun Mirror – not helpful

-          Loudoun Times-Mirror – not helpful

 

Ancestry.com

 

-          Very helpful because of its access to many digitized records, but only with paid account.

 

Findagrave.com

 

-          Somewhat helpful, but not always able to verify what people post as it’s an open source.