Genealogy

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Ancestry Library Edition is only available in house at the library via our public computers or Wi-Fi. 

Ancestrylibrary.com offers unparalleled coverage of the United States and the United Kingdom, including census, vital, church, court, and immigration records, as well as record collections from Canada, Europe, Australia and other areas of the world!

Heritage Quest

Your Ancestors Become More Than a Name. Historical Insights, Photos, Records, and More. Access 20+ Billion Records on the World's Largest Online Family History Resource.

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Fold3® provides convenient access to military records, including the stories, photos, and personal documents of the men and women who served.

FamilySearch
FamilySearch is the largest genealogy organization in the world. Millions of people use FamilySearch records, resources, and services each year to learn more about their family history. Click here to create a free FamilySeach account.
Internet Archive
The Internet Archive, a 501(c)(3) non-profit, is building a digital library of Internet sites and other cultural artifacts in digital form. Like a paper library, they provide free access to researchers, historians, scholars, the print disabled, and the general public.
Waynesboro Public Library has contributed 34 Volumes of The Skyline, the Waynesboro High School yearbook, to the Internet Archive. 
You can view and download the yearbooks.

Digital Photograph Collection

Waynesboro Public Library Photograph Collection is part of The Library of Virginia's Digital Library Program (DLP) which preserves, digitizes, and provides access to significant archival and library collections. You can search the photographs here.


Waynesboro High School Yearbooks

The Virginia Yearbooks Digital Collection is an ongoing project in partnership with Virginia's local public libraries, LYRASIS, and IMLS to make public high school yearbooks available online. Browse here https://lva-virginia.libguides.com/yearbooks by county or city to find specific high school yearbooks.

The Deaf Culture Digital Library (DCDL) continues to develop and will see added resources from the Library of Virginia, such as the digitization of the Goodson Gazetter, published by the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind, as well as a finding aid for all LVA holdings related to deaf history.