Genealogy

Online Resources

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!

Free access to s elect content from Ancestry.com is provided by the Library of Virginia to Virginians. Included data collections:

Alabama, Texas and Virginia, Confederate Pensions, 1884-1958
Virginia, Birth Records, 1912-2014, Delayed Birth Records, 1854-1911
Virginia, Death Records, 1912-2014
Virginia, Marriage Records, 1936-2014
Virginia, Divorce Records, 1918-2014

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.

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.