Williamsburg Virginia FamilySearch Center

Holiday Closures
The Williamsburg Family History Center will be closed 12/22/17 - 1/8/18 for the holidays.

Please visit us during our regular hours when we reopen in January. Happy Holidays!

16 November 2017
Brown Bag Lunch on November 16th, noon to 1 pm.

Shelly Flint will present amazing new insights into Indexing, now a web-based program.

Please plan to bring your laptop, tablet or other device to practice on.

Roots Magic class will be at 10:30 - 11:30 am same day.

No reservations required. Please join us at 2017 Newman Road in Williamsburg, VA 23188.

Evening Closures
The Williamsburg Family History Center will be closed the following evenings:

22, 23, 24, 29, 30 & 31 August 2017

We are sorry for any inconveniences. We will be open during regular morning hours:

22, 24, 26, 29 & 31 August 2017

4-8 July 2017
We are sorry for any inconveniences. Please visit us during other operating hours.

Also please visit us on Facebook @ Williamsburg Family History Center for updates, information and closures.

Third Thursday Brown Bag
21 September 2017

DNA Round 2: Getting Started with GEDMatch

Lise Embley will demonstrate the basics of using the DNA sharing site GEDMatch.

No reservations required. Please join us at 2017 Newman Road in Williamsburg, VA 23188.

Upcoming Events
See our Events page for more details.

Third Thursday Brown Bag
See the Events page to learn more about sessions and presenters.

RootsMagic User Group
TBA

Recent Presentations
Click on the presentation title to view and print the handout. Documents are in PDF format.

For more handouts, see our Presentation Handouts page.

September 2016 - Poznan Project - Polish and German Marriage Index, 1800-1899

August 2016 - Finding Williamsburg/James City County Ancestors

July 2016 -

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Resources
Our Family History Center features:


 * Personal assistance
 * Informative lectures and events
 * Lexmark multi-function printer/scanner with direct scan to FamilySearch Family Tree
 * Access to 2.3 million rolls of microfilm through the Salt Lake Family History Library
 * ScanPro digital film/fiche reader
 * Story Catcher interactive video interview terminal
 * NMI 2020 microfilm readers
 * Canon Lide flatbed scanner
 * Wifi access
 * 5 computer workstations

Our computer workstations provide free access to subscription genealogy websites including: Check out our ScanPro 2000 digital microfilm/fiche reader! The reader, and its accompanying computer, printer, and scanner represent top-of-the-line technology for viewing, printing, and saving images from FamilySearch microfilms and fiche.
 * Access Newspaper Archive
 * American Civil War Online
 * Ancestry.com
 * ArkivDigital online (Swedish church records)
 * findmypast (UK/Ireland/US/World Research, PERSI)
 * Fold3.com (US National Archives records)
 * MyHeritage.com (includes WorldVitalRecords and Mocavo data)
 * NewspaperArchive.com
 * ProQuest Obituary Collection
 * 19th Century British Newspapers

If you’ve never used microfilm before in your research, take five minutes to learn how to use the FamilySearch Catalog. Go to FamilySearch.org and click on Learn. A short video shows you how to use a Place Search or Last Name Search to locate microfilms that might be helpful to you in your research.

Once you find a film that you’d like to view, you may be able to view a copy of it at our center.