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Norfolk's Local History and Genealogical Collection

Research Links:

  • NPL Catalog

  • Ancestry.com
      Available Only Inside NPL

  • Local Newspaper
       Virginian Pilot

  • HeritageQuest Online

  • Sanborn Maps - Virginia

  • Norfolk AIR

  • Norfolk Cemeteries

  • Norfolk Journal and Guide 1921 - 2003

  • Norfolk annexations

  • Hurricanes

  • Mayors

  • Azalea Queens

  • Norfolk Chronology

  • Links

  • Finding Aids:

  • African American Resources at SMR  [pdf file]

  • List of Norfolk & Portsmouth City Annexations  [pdf file]

  • Our Newspaper Collection  [Excel]

  • Our Norfolk City Records Collection  [Excel]  

    How to Guides:

  • Researching Your Norfolk Property  [pdf file]

  • Unlocking a Norfolk City Directory  [pdf file]

    Special Collection:

  • City Directories

  • Norfolk Poll Tax   [Excel]   [html]

  • Yearbooks   [Excel]   [html]

  • Valos, William Troy. 1836 Free African Americans for Bourough of Norfolk, Virginia.
    Norfolk, Va: Norfolk Public Library, 2009.   [pdf file]

  • Virginia Seaport - City of Norfolk. C.E. Weaver series, illustrated cities.
    [S.l.]: C.E. Weaver, 1910.   [pdf file]

  • Virginia. Journal and Reports of the Commissioners Appointed by the Act of 1777,
    To Ascertain the Losses Occasioned to Individuals by the Burning of Norfolk and
    Portsmouth, in the Year 1776. 1836.   [pdf file]