Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Franklin 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 This county was named after Benjamin Franklin and formed in 1785, from parts of Bedford and Henry Counties.  It was the home of the Confederate General Jubal Anderson Early, and Booker T Washington, the slave who became one of the main civil rights activists of his era.  INCORPORATED TOWNS Boones Mill - Rocky Mount UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES Callaway - Ferrum - Glade Hill -North Shore - Penhook - Snow Creek - Union Hall - Westlake Corner 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 Dec 2011 Hon. Benjamin H. Oxley Oct 2011 Jubal Anderson Early Biography William Bowker Preston Biography Jun 2011 Stephen Thomas Wood Biography April 2011 Marriages: Paisley-Cochran Mar. 2011 Bios: Bandy, Brown, Claiborne, Fishburne, Starkey, Turner Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Bedford Co VA - Floyd Co VA - Henry Co VA - Patrick Co VA - Pittsylvania 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.