The Virginia Room of the Fairfax Regional Library - a Great Resource for African-American History and Genealogy Research

If you live anywhere near Fairfax Virginia and are engaged in African-American genealogy or history research, you may want to check out the Virginia Room of the Fairfax Regional Library, which has a collection that includes slave narratives, materials on the Underground Railroad, slave insurrections and escapes, Civil War materials, transcripts of probate materials, and much more. You can read a Fairfax Times article about this collection here.