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Barbara Vines Little, CG, FNGS, FVGS, is a professional genealogist whose primary interest is in Virginia research, brick wall problems and complete genealogies. A member of the board of the Orange County Historical Society and a former president of both the National Genealogical Society and the Virginia Genealogical Society, she served as coordinator and instructor for VIGR (Virginia Institute of Genealogical Research) Track II, 1996-2004.

She has served as the editor of the quarterly Magazine of Virginia Genealogy since 1996 and is the former editor of the bi-monthly Virginia Genealogical Society Newsletter and MidAtlantic Germanic Society's newsletter, Der Kurier. Winner of the NGS Quarterly Award of excellence in 2001, she has written articles for a number of publications including the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, the National Genealogical Society Newsletter, the Board for Certification of Genealogists' newsletter, OnBoard; and the Association of Professional Genealogists Quarterly. The current editor of National Genealogical Society's Research in the States series, she is the author of the West Virginia volume and has published three volumes of Virginia court records and edited others for publication. She has lectured for the past twenty years at local, regional, state and national conferences in twenty-eight states on research methodology, Virginia and West Virginia resources and writing and publishing.