Virginia, United States Genealogy

{| class="FCK__ShowTableBorders" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" border="0"
 * valign="top" |
 * valign="top" |

{| class="FCK__ShowTableBorders" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="1" width="100%" border="0" United States &gt;  Virginia
 * valign="top" align="left" width="70%" |

{| class="FCK__ShowTableBorders" cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="100%" align="center" border="0"
 * align="center" colspan="2" |
 * align="center" colspan="2" |

Welcome to Virginia, Old Dominion

 * align="center" width="175" | [[Image:Virginia.png|190px]][[Image:Virginia flag.png|130px]]
 * }
 * align="center" width="175" | [[Image:Virginia.png|190px]][[Image:Virginia flag.png|130px]]
 * }

Independent Cities:
Counties now part of West Virginia:

Barbour. Berkeley. Boone. Braxton. Brooke. Cabell. Calhoun. Clay. Doddridge. Fayette. Gilmer. Greenbrier. Hampshire. Hancock. Hardy. Harrison. Jackson. Jefferson. Kanawha. Lewis. Logan. Marion. Marshall. Mason. McDowell. Mercer. Monongalia. Monroe. Morgan. Nicholas. Ohio. Pendleton. Pleasants. Pocahontas. Preston. Putnam. Raleigh. Randolph. Ritchie. Roane. Taylor. Tucker. Tyler. Upshur. Wayne. Webster. Wetzel. Wirt. Wood. Wyoming

Counties now part of Kentucky:

Bourbon. Fayette. Jefferson. Lincoln. Madison. Mason. Mercer. Nelson. Woodford

Extinct or ceded Counties or Cities:

Illinois. Dunmore. Elizabeth City. Fincastle. Kentucky. Manchester. Nansemond. Norfolk. Norfolk (Lower). Norfolk (New). Norfolk (Upper). Rappahannock (Old). South Boston. South Norfolk. Warwick. Yohogania

Featured content

 * Early Virginia Religious Petitions, 1774-1802
 * Compiled Records for Mid-South Research
 * Virginia Blacksheep Ancestors

Did you know?

 * Over 4 million brief citations (name, date, and source) to manuscripts, periodicals, and books are provided in Fremont Rider's (editor) American Genealogical- Biographical Index. Vols. 1-186+. Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library, 1952-. (Family History Library films beginning with 1698167) Many of the records of headright grants and land purchases in Virginia to 1749 have been indexed and published in Nugent, Nell Marion Nugent's Cavaliers and Pioneers: Abstracts of Virginia Land Patents and Grants. 5 vols. Richmond, Virginia: Dietz Print.: Virginia State Library: Virginia Genealogical Society, 1934, 1963, 1977-1979, 1994. (Family History Library film 1320779 item 5) Vol. 1 has 1623-1666, vol. 2 1666-1695, vol. 3 1695-1732, vol. 4 1732-1741, vol. 5 1741-1749. The Library of Virginia can be accessed at http://www.lva.lib.va.us/.
 * A hustings court is a citywide jurisdiction that heard minor civil and criminal cases and equity, probate, and orphan matters. Independent cities, such as Richmond, had hustings courts. In 1850, the hustings courts were replaced by the corporation courts.
 * An Index of Nineteenth Century Virginia Room by Room Inventories - http://departments.umw.edu/hipr/www/inventories/virginia/19cva.htm

Research tools

 * Find which county a town is in, what town a cemetery is in, even where a postoffice or building is by using the United States Geographical Survey's Geographical Names Information System.
 * David Rumsey Map Collection is a large online collection of rare, old, antique historical atlases, globes, maps, charts plus other cartographic treasures.
 * The Virginia GenWeb Project has a wealth of information and is a part of the larger USGenWeb Project. The USGenWeb Project provides internet information on every county in every state in the United States.

Things you can do
In order to make this wiki a better research tool, we need your help! Many tasks need to be done. You can help by:


 * }

Virginia moderator
The Virginia moderator is Gregory Bean. Please contact the FamilySearch Wiki administrator if you would like to be the assistant moderator for Virginia.


 * }