Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Giles 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 Giles County was established in 1806 from Montgomery, Monroe, Tazewell and Wythe counties.  William Branch Giles who was born in Amelia County in 1762, is the inspiration behind the name.  He became a lawyer and was elected to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1790 to 1815.  Giles also served on the Virginia General Assembly until he was elected Governor in 1827. Giles County is the location of Mountain Lake, one of only two natural fresh water lakes in Virginia. The Lake drains into Little Stony Creek, which passes over "The Cascades", a spectacular waterfall, before reaching the New River The county seat is Pearisburg INCORPORATED TOWNS Glen Lyn - Narrows - Pearisburg - Pembroke - Rich Creek UNINCORPORATED COMMUNITIES Eggleston - Goldbond - Hoges Chapel - Kimballton - Maybrook - Newport - Prospectdale - Ripplemead - Staffordsville - White Gate Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Families / Bibles Queries Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates: Jan 2012 Judge David McComas Biography Dec 2011 Rev. William Ward Hicks Sep 2011 Newspaper Gleanings: Wyoming County Man Dies, Woman Injured In Wreck Jul 2011 Harman Family Marriages Jun 2011 Lewis Family Biography Easley Family Biography Mar 2011 Bios: Johnston Search our Sites Queries Surrounding Counties * Summers County, West Virginia - north * Monroe County, West Virginia - north * Craig County - east * Montgomery County - southeast * Pulaski County - south * Bland County - west * Mercer County, West Virginia - northwest 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.