More Resources
Welcome to our local history resource hub! Dive into the rich history of our community with these valuable online resources:
Roanoke City Public Library - Virginia Room
- Located at the Main Library in Downtown Roanoke, the Virginia Room holds the Libraries’ non-circulating historical and genealogical research resources. We are committed to collecting, preserving, interpreting, and making available materials of the Roanoke Valley and the Commonwealth of Virginia and some material from states closely tied to Virginia through births, immigration, migration, or boundary.
Botetourt County Historical Society, Inc.
- You can also browse their library collection online!
- You can also browse their online collection, here!
Library of Virginia - Virginia Memory
- Virginia Memory is part of the online presence of the Library of Virginia, the state archives and reference library. The Library maintains vast and varied collections of print materials, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and ephemera, maps and atlases, rare books, and fine art that tell the history of the commonwealth and its people.
- Virginia Chronicle is a historical archive of Virginia newspapers, providing free access to full text searching and digitized images of over 4 million newspaper pages.
- FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Containing more than four billion genealogical records, plus family trees and other resources. FamilySearch is provided free of charge, to everyone, regardless of tradition, culture, or religious affiliation. FamilySearch resources help millions of people around the world discover their heritage and connect with family members.
US GenWeb Project: Botetourt County
- This is a part of the USGenWeb project, which is an effort to organize genealogical materials on the Internet. The goal is to provide a web site specializing in the genealogy in Virginia with an emphasis on genealogy at the county level.