Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Floyd 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 History Floyd County Virginia's history begins in Southwest Virginia in the 1700's with the arrival of traders, trappers and hunters. Trader's Path is the earliest known travel way through Floyd County. It ran East to West, over the Roanoke River where Back Creek comes in, by John Mason's, R. Poage's, the waters of Back Creek and Southwest over Bent Mountain. The trail continued westward through the Little River area to the Lead Mines. First known attempts to settle Floyd County, appear to have been made during the 1740's. James Patton, in 1745, was granted by the Virginia Council, 100,000 acres on the New River and westward flowing waters. In 1749, the Royal Company of Virginia received a grant as well, on the westward flowing waters. This put the two companies in competition with each other to settle the area. January 15, 1831, the General Assembly of Virginia passed an act creating what is now Floyd County, out of Montgomery County. The new county got its name from the Governor at the time, John Floyd. In 1834, the courthouse was completed. A portion of Franklin County was given to Floyd County in 1870. Floyd County's county seat was first called Jacksonville, in honor of Andrew Jackson the 7th President of the United States. First incorporated in 1858, Jacksonville was re-incorporated on February 19, 1892, in order to enlarge the town boundaries. The General Assembly passed an Act on January 23, 1896, officially changing the name to Floyd, from Jacksonville. Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bibles County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Website updates Mar 2012:Register of Children of Colored Persons Jan 2012: Isaac Eldridge Huff, M. D. Biography Oct 2011: Allen Taylor Caperton Biography Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Carroll Co VA - Franklin Co VA - Montgomery Co VA - Patrick Co VA - Pulaski Co VA - Roanoke 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.