{"id":5,"date":"2013-08-05T17:38:45","date_gmt":"2013-08-05T17:38:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/centralvirginiagenealogicalassociation.wordpress.com\/?page_id=1"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:55:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T20:55:25","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?page_id=5","title":{"rendered":"About CVGA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Virginia Genealogical Association (CVGA) was formed in July 1977, to encourage, foster, and organize genealogical research, teaching, publishing, education, and recording. CVGA received its charter as a non-stock, non-profit corporation from the Corporation Commission of the Commonwealth of Virginia on 21 September, 1977.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/2019_CVGA_bylaws-revised.docx\">CVGA Bylaws, rev. 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<form action=\"https:\/\/www.paypal.com\/cgi-bin\/webscr\" method=\"post\" target=\"_top\"><input name=\"cmd\" type=\"hidden\" value=\"_s-xclick\" \/><\/form>\n<hr \/>\n<p>CVGA&#8217;s primary geographical focus is on the old counties of Albemarle, Augusta, Hanover, and Orange; that is, the present Piedmont counties of Albemarle, Amherst, Appomattox, Bedford, Buckingham, Campbell, Culpeper, Fluvanna, Goochland, Greene, Hanover, Louisa, Madison, Nelson, and Orange, and the Shenandoah Valley counties of Augusta, Page, Rockingham, and Shenandoah.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_18\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cvgaarea.gif\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-18 \" src=\"http:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/08\/cvgaarea.gif?w=300\" alt=\"Map of Central Virginia Genealogical Association Area\" width=\"300\" height=\"144\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-18\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Central Virginia Genealogical Association Area<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Contact us by mail:<br \/>\nCentral Virginia Genealogical Association<br \/>\nP.O. Box 817<br \/>\nEarlysville, VA 22936-0817<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSd82nIAW6-pJ_oTUBvZsSKbqRGIm_oWlbvqCMsLPaDBywUCzA\/viewform\">Email Us!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Officers:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>President, Susan Lindsay<\/li>\n<li>Vice President,\u00a0Linda Gore<\/li>\n<li>Recording Secretary<\/li>\n<li>Corresponding Secretary and Membership Chair<\/li>\n<li>Treasurer, Patricia Lukas<\/li>\n<li>Webmaster and Editor\u00a0of the\u00a0<i>Central Virginia Heritage<\/i>, Jean Cooper<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Central Virginia Genealogical Association (CVGA) was formed in July 1977, to encourage, foster, and organize genealogical research, teaching, publishing, education, and recording. CVGA received its charter as a non-stock, non-profit corporation from the Corporation Commission of the Commonwealth of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/?page_id=5\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-5","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2175,"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/5\/revisions\/2175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cvga.avenue.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}