Periodicals supply current information in successive issues. We collect and retain those which contain either genealogical information or local history. Included in the collection are the following: 

• American Archivist 1953-1995 and 2000-2003
• American Spirit (DAR) Magazine 1995-2003
• Ancestry 1998-2001
• Archival Outlook 2000-2003
• Battlefield Update 1994-2003
• Civil War 1989-2003
• Civil War Times 1994-2003
• Civil War Illustrated 1984-2003
• Confederate Veteran 1989-2003
• Everton's Family History Magazine 2000-2003
• Genealogical Helper 1995-2001
• Hallowed Ground 2000-2003
• Kentucky Ancestors 1980-1988
• National Genealogical Society Quarterly 1979-1995
• The New England Historical and Genealogical Register 1980-2003
• The Palatine Immigrant 1983-1998(incomplete)
• Southern Partisan 1992-1998
• United Daughters of the Confederacy 1997-2003
• Magazine of Virginia Genealogy 1988 to 2003
• Virginia Cavalcade 1954-2002 ~ searchable table of contents for all issues available at LVA's web site.
• Virginia Magazine of History and Biography 1893-2003
• The William and Mary Quarterly 1986-2003
• Wonderful West Virginia 1985-1997, Genealogy Reports from Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio, and