Isle of Wight County, Virginia Compiled Genealogies

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General
As of November 2010, a query for individuals born in Isle of Wight, Virginia at World Connect, results in more than 120,000 entries.

Isle of Wight County, Virginia Surnames (courtesy: Linkpendium) contains links to more than 300 online resources about this county's families, including compiled genealogies.

Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Isle of Wight County families include:


 * Boddie, John Bennett. Seventeenth Century Isle of Wight County, Virginia: A History of the County of Isle of Wight, Virginia, During the Seventeenth Century, Including Abstracts of the County Records. Chicago: Chicago Law Print. Co., 1938. Available at [3 copies]; digital versions at Ancestry ($) and Family History Archives. [Includes chapters on the following families: Bennett, Boddie, Brewer, Bridger, Davis, Exum, Godwin, Lawrence, Newman, and Pitt.]
 * Boddie, John Bennett. Southside Virginia Families. 2 vols. 1955-1956; reprint, Baltimore, Md.: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1976..
 * Brayton, John Anderson. Order of First Families of North Carolina Ancestor Biographies Vol. 1. Memphis, Tenn., 2011..
 * Chapman, Blanche Adams and Isle of Wight County Library (Virginia). Smithfield Branch. Chapman Collection of Virginia Family Names, Smithfield Branch, Isle of Wight County Library, 1635-1814. MSS., Blanche Adams Chapman Collection, Smithfield Branch, Isle of Wight County Library, at Smithfield, Virginia; also available at.
 * Chapman, Blanche Adams. "Isle of Wight Families," William and Mary Quarterly, Series 2, Vol. 10 (1930):254-260. Digital version at JSTOR ($).
 * Gwaltney, Anne W. Personal History Departments of Surry and Isle of Wight Counties, Virginia from Hardesty's Historical and Geographical Encyclopedia, Special Virginia Edition, c. 1884. [Virginia? : s.n., 1884?]. Available at.