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The Bedford Museum Genealogy and History Forum is a group that meets to discuss local history and genealogy. We are a very informal group and we welcome anyone who loves to discuss local history. Steve StClair will be our guest at this meeting. His family has been in Bedford for over one hundred years. His [...]

Ben Shrader, a Bedford County surveyor, will be speaking on his book, Descendants of Roderick Higginbotham of Taylor’s Mountain, Bedford County, Virginia. This interesting genealogy of the Higginbotham family began on a surveying job. Shrader needed to know who owned the property, and became so involved in the research of the descendants in order to [...]

A lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Lynchburg against the Bedford Museum over the sale of cemetery records has drawn in principals from the two largest law firms west of Richmond. Representatives of the Bedford Genealogical Society, Inc. sued the museum in November. They claim the museum has misrepresented itself as the owner of [...]

The speaker will be Dawn Fields from the staff at the Old City Cemetery in Lynchburg. She will be speaking on the history of this old cemetery, the people buried there and the revitalization the cemetery has undergone in recent years. The meeting is free and open to all interested in genealogy or wish to [...]

The Bedford Genealogical Society was formed in 1987 by a group of individuals wishing to preserve family histories of the people who have lived in this county and surrounding areas. One of the first large projects of the Society was begun by Dr. Tom Jennings (then Society President) to find, identify, and record all cemeteries [...]