Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Arlington 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/History Arlington County is located directly across the Potomac River to the southwest of Washington, D.C. Formerly part of the District of Columbia, the land now composing the county was retroceded to Virginia on July 9, 1846, in an act of Congress that took effect in 1847. It was called Alexandria County from that date until March 16, 1920, when an act of the General Assembly changed its name to Arlington County. Despite being organized politically as a "county" in Virginia, it is considered a Central City of the Washington Metropolitan Area by the Census Bureau, along with the adjacent cities of Washington and Alexandria, Virginia. At a land area of 26 square miles, it is geographically the smallest self-governing county in the United States. Arlington is the location of Arlington National Cemetery, Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, the Pentagon, Fort Myer, the Pentagon Memorial, the USMC War Memorial, the Air Force Memorial, and numerous other monuments. The incorporated town of Potomac (1908-1930) was located in Arlington County. However, it was annexed by the adjacent City of Alexandria in 1930, and thus, joined the lost towns of Virginia. Although "lost" as a political subdivision, the former town of Potomac is now a historic district of the City of Alexandria, and includes 1,840 acres and 690 buildings. The Town of Potomac was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1992. Arlington County is surrounded by Fairfax County on the north, west and south. It is adjacent along its southwest and southern borders to the City of Falls Church and the City of Alexandria; and along the Potomac River north. Included in the county are several neighborhoods, or "urban villages" such as Crystal City, Rosslyn, Ballston, Clarendon, Virginia Square, Westover, and Shirlington Arlington has no existing incorporated towns [source: wikipedia.org] Online Data Bibles Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Records Church / Religion County Records Death Records Families County History Marriage Records Military Records Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Photographs Queries School Records Slaves / Slavery Wills / Probate Records Updates Nov 2011 Allyn Capron Biography Oct. 2011 Marriages (1,631 Total New Marriages) Mar. 2011 Ball Family Cemetery World War II Honor List Historic Arlington Chapter1-9 Arlington National Cemetery Memorial Ceremony 1868 A Tribute to a Soldier, burial of Gen. Rosecrans Arlington National Cemetery History Feb. 2011 Bios: Broyhill Surrounding Counties Surrounded by Fairfax County on the north, west and south. It is adjacent along its southwest and southern borders to the City of Falls Church and the City of Alexandria; and along the Potomac River north. 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.