Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Albemarle County Genealogy and History Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption! Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this website become a useful research tool. If you would like to join our group and become the host of this county, please visit our Volunteer Page and contact Kim. (A desire to transcribe data and basic webpage skills are necessary) We regret that we have no time to perform personal research for anybody. All data we come across will be added to this site, so please keep checking back here. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County Information In 1744, the Virginia General Assembly created Albemarle County by taking the northern portion of Goochland County.  The county was named in honor of Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle and titular Governor of Virginia at this time.  The large county was divided in 1761, forming Buckingham and Amherst counties, at which time the county seat was moved from the formerly centrally located Scottsville to a piece of newly central land, Charlottesville. President Thomas Jefferson was born in the county at Shadwell, though it was a part of Goochland County at that time.  His home of Monticello is located in the county. 2009 Population: 88,726 | Area: 723 Sq Miles | County Seat: Charlottesville National Protected Area Shenandoah National Park PARKS: Beaver Creek Lake -- Chris Greene Lake -- Charlotte Y Humphris Park Darden Towe -- Dorrier Park -- Ivy Creek Natural Area -- Mint Springs Valley Park Ragged Mountain Natural Area -- Simpson Park -- Totier Creek Walnut Creek Park Towns & Unincorporated Towns Scottsville - Barboursville - Crozet - Earlysville -- Free Union - Ivy - Keene - Keswick Notable Residents Chilton Allan - David Bailey - Mary Chapin Carpenter - Dabney Smith Carr - Christopher Henderson Clark - Edward Coles - Greensville Dowell - James T Farley - James Walker Gons - John Grisham - John Harvie - Samuel Hopkins - Thomas Jefferson -  Walter Leake - Meriweather Lewis - Howie Long - Joseph Martin - Dave Matthews - James Monroe - Sissy Spacek - Bebe Williams - William Wirt Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Jan 2012 Luke Pryor Biography Dec 2011 David Meriwether Biography Massie Family Biography Nov 2011 Walter Glasco Charlton Biography Edmund Murphy Robinson Biography  Oct 2011 Willaim B. Snead Biography Sep 2011 Robert Garlick Hill Kean Banjamin Watkins Lacy Biography Jun 2011 Thomas Jefferson Bio Mary Anna Page Obituary James Hoge Tyler Bio May 2011 Bio: Col. L. Bremond Orders: 1744-1748 Mar 2011 News-Agriculture: Gante Marriages Solemized by Rev. John Gibson 1800-1846 Bios: Johnson, Mundy CIRCUIT CLERK Albemarle County Courthouse Court Square 401 East Jefferson Street Charlottesville, VA 22902-5110 Phone: (434) 972 4083 (434) 973 4085 Fax: (434) 293 0298 Surrounding Counties Augusta Co VA - Buckingham Co VA - Fluvanna Co VA - Greene Co VA - Louisa Co VA Nelson Co VA - Orange Co VA -  Rockingham Co VA Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.