Genealogy Resources
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Radford Family Letters is a collaborative effort between Radford University and the Radford Public Library. McConnell Library Archives and Special Collections department digitized and made keyword searchable the original documents held in trust at the Radford Public Library. |
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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. |
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Online access Online access to Census and a growing body of family history. For even more resources, come to the library and research on our account to Ancestry Library. |
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ProQuest® African American Heritage is a groundbreaking digital resource exclusively devoted to African American family history research.It provides users a dedicated resource that not only brings together records critical to African American family research; but also connects them to a community of research experts, whose mentoring and assistance can frequently be the difference between research success and futility. MORE
Unknown no longer.
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ProQuest Obituaries™ offers more than 10.5 million obituaries and death notices in full-image format from uninterrupted historical archives of top newspapers. An obituary is often the only biographical sketch that was ever devoted to an individual and can provide valuable clues that significantly advance genealogical research. Researchers have long known this, but up until now there’s never been a resource exclusively dedicated to providing this treasured, deep historical content online.MORE |
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Brief history of the Radford Public Library from 1941 to the present day. This includes some notable names and movers and shakers from the local library community without whom the library would not be what it is today. MORE |
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Radford Then And Now was published 1976 in conjunction with the American Revolution Bicentennial Commission of Radford Virginia. The Radford Public Library scanned and indexed the publication through the guidance and direction of Marsha Dubose, the library genealogist. MORE |
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The Radford Public Library is offering to our patrons access through Proquest, the Sanborn Maps of Virginia in digital form. These maps were originally created for assessing fire insurance liability in urban areas of the United States. The maps are available from cities and towns in Virginia from 1885 through 1970. Information from the maps includes streets, buildings and utility structures. The digital maps can be downloaded and printed at your convenience. MORE |