Virginia Public Records

To begin, add a public record or view a list of counties, locations and resources for Virginia public records.

The Library of Virginia offers services to public agencies in order to help manage public records in Virginia. By authority of the Virginia Public Records Act and other state statutes and regulation, the Library is charged with maintaining and ensuring these public records are available for research and historical purposes.

The Library further assists with the move of Virginia public records that are considered to be of historical significance to the Archives at no cost save some copy charges. The collection housed by the Library of Virginia includes books, newspapers, magazines, city, county, state and federal publications and government records, architectural plans, records of businesses and organizations, even Bible records, personal papers and sheet music.

While the staff is available to assist researchers they are not able to perform in depth searches for individuals. For those who need the assistance of a professional researcher, the Library offers a list of researchers who specialize in Virginia public records and history.

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By law, citizens of the state have the right to do a Virginia public records search. It is at the state Library that all of these documents, statistics, and other methods of information keeping have been stored. It is also from there that anyone seeking the information should make their request. The process is quite simple and is provided at absolutely no cost to the information seeker.

Virginia County Public Records