• Extensive collection of materials on the people, places and events of the Lower Shenandoah Valley from 1732 to the present. The focus of the collection is Winchester and Frederick County.

• Over 4000 published books: abstracts of county court records, county histories, genealogies, regimental histories, and studies of battles from the French and Indian War to the Civil War.

• Newspapers from 1787 to the present, (incomplete).  Some titles have been microfilmed; however none are indexed.

• Census collection with all available United States Census records for the Lower Shenandoah Valley from 1790 to 1930.

• Over 600 linear feet of manuscripts and ephemera, maps, photographs, and oral history tapes.

• Manuscript collections and published books appear in the library’s online catalog.

Other Links:
Winchester Frederick County Historical Society   
Winchester Frederick County Historical Society blog
Genealogy Roundtable Activities
Shenandoah Valley Genealogical Society
Some Virginia Treasures in the Library of Congress
Virginia Gazette (early Virginia newspaper) through Colonial Williamsburg
Virginia Heritage  Guide to Manuscript & Archival Collections in Virginia
City and county records in the Library of Virginia
Photos from the Archives' 30th Anniversary Party, Nov. 2009 (on library's Facebook page)