Do you have an exact page (or exact pages) of the Virginia Magazine of History & Biography that you want? If so, you can write to either to the Family History Library in Salt Lake City and request copies (there is a form, I believe, on <A HREF="www.familysearch.org">www.familysearch.org</A> - look for a link to Forms) OR you can write to the Allen County Public Library in Fort Wayne Indiana. Ask your public librarian to get you the exact address--or look for their website, which I do not know--it must be among my LONG list of several hundred websites. Use a search engine such as <A HREF="www.google.com">www.google.com</A> or a newish one <A HREF="www.kartoo.com"> www.kartoo.com</A> If you do not know the exact pages of this publication which you want, then I suggest this: Are you near a large genealogical library? If so, call them up and ask if they have several volumes of "Swem's Index", more formally known as Virginia Historical Index. It is conceivable that it MAY be at a large university or community college near you--anything is worth a try when a genealogist is on the trail of ancestors. (I have lots of material overlooked by college students - which are chuck full of genealogy - a bit at a time, but all useful. Books are generally shelved in Local History, but also check Immigration, and plain old genealogy. If the library uses the Library of Congress cataloging, you will find local history under books whose call numbers begin with F; immigration under Z; genealogy under CS; English records begin with DA and so on. Prowl around the open shelves and see what you can find. They may even have the Virginia Mag which you are searching for.) If you are near an LDS family history center, call them up and ask for their opening hours (and closing hours, of course). At the same time, ask if they have a microfiche collection. If they do, chances are they have Swem's Index (aka Virginia Historical Index) on 27 microfiches, No. 6046961. According to the online catalog of the FHL in Salt Lake City, this index is part of the microfiche project for FHCs and probably they were furnished with this index when the center opened. If you are near an LDS center, also ask whether they have hundreds of microfiche called the AIS = Accelerated Indexing System. This is a comprehensive census index for the whole US through 1850 census. There are some mortality schedules also. Each census year is called a Search. The earliest censuses, including some early tax lists, are on Search 1. Each Search generally (not always) is a subsequent census. There should be a free four-page index explaining this census. If not, there should be a notebook explaining the use of AIS. This is a tool which many professionals use to locate a family when they are beginning a search for a new family. Otherwise, dive in and teach yourself. You will find errors in duplication, omissions, misspellings, etc. But still it (AIS) is a useful tool. The AIS is flawed, but if a tool works, it works. It is a good way to pick up migration trails for your folks. If you know where your 2nd great-grandfather was in 1850, start with that census, and then work your way backwards in time. (I should have done that with more of my people--then I would have discovered [perhaps] that my migratory ancestors, from MD to NC to KY had spent a few years in TN. Oh, well, live and learn!!!) E.W.Wallace