Guidelines
for Research: Our members volunteer their time and effort to
assist requests for research through the Goochland County Historical Society.
Volunteers’ are not genealogists and provide this service without compensation.
Because we are volunteers, research can take six (6) to eight (8) weeks. All proceeds are used to further the purposes of
the Society.
Our rates are as follows: $15.00 up to ½ hour
research ________ $30.00 up to 1 hour research ________
We will
search the following sources in this order for the time you have selected or you may
select the order you wish us to research by placing a number by each item listed below.
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_____The Douglas Register 1750-1797
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_____Marriages in Goochland 1733-1815
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_____Marriage Bonds and Ministers’
returns 1816-1854
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_____Abstracts of Wills 1727-1777 by Henley
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_____Facets of Goochland County by Agee
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_____Census Records of Goochland (1787, 1790,
1810, 1830, 1860, 1870)
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_____GCHS Family Files (donated &
generally not verified.)
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_____Colonial Road Orders
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_____Public Record Claims for the
Revolutionary War
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_____Early Virginia Families Along the James
by Foley
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_____Grave Sites and Cemeteries in Goochland
County
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_____St. James Northern Parish Vestry Book
1744 - 1850
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_____Turff & Twigg, The French Lands
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_____Goochland Yesterday and Today
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_____List of Colonial Soldiers of Virginia
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_____Virginia Revolutionary Warrants
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_____Confederate Records
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_____Virginia Wills and Administration
1632-1800
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_____Encyclopedia of American Quaker
Genealogy, Virginia
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_____Cavaliers & Pioneers Vols. 1 - 6
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_____Goochland Historical Society Magazine
(Volumes I thru XXVI)
Each search is for one family name only. It is best if you can give us the following
information:
Ancestor name to research:___________________________Married
to_______________________________________
Date of Birth ____________________Date of Marriage __________________Date of Death
_____________________
Parents names________________________________________
Children_________________________________________
Why do you think your ancestor was in Goochland County,
Virginia__________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Any information you think will help us
helpyou________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
__________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Signed __________________________________Date ________Check
enclosed $______________
Address _____________________________________________________________________________
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