Madison County, Virginia Genealogy

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Parent County
1792--Madison County was created 4 December 1792 from Culpeper County. County seat: Madison

Neighboring Counties

 * Culpeper
 * Greene
 * Orange
 * Page
 * Rappahannock

Cemeteries
LDS Cemetery Records

Vol. 1


 * page 146 - Fairview Cemetery, at Hood
 * page 149 - Rose Park Cemetery, at Wolfton

Court
Chancery Court


 * Indexes and images to Madison County, Virginia Chancery Records 1802-1881 are available online through Virginia Memory: Chancery Records Index. Additional records are available at the Madison County Courthouse. These records, which were often concerned with inheritance disputes, contain a wealth of genealogical information.

Immigration

 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes will a of resident of Madison County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Newspapers
Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in the Virginia Gazette and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia.

Probate
London Courts
 * Coldham, Peter Wilson. North American Wills Registered in London 1611-1857. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 2007. [Includes will a of resident of Madison County proved in London. These records often help establish an immigrant's place of origin.]

Taxation

 * Images of the 1799 Personal Property Tax Lists of Madison County, Virginia are available online at Binns Genealogy.

Websites
Link title
 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog