Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Greensville 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 Greensville County was established in 1781 from Brunswick County.  Sir Richard Grenville is likely the inspiration behind the naming of the county.  The Meherrin River forms the boundary behind Southampton County and Greensville County. TOWNS Jarratt - Skippers ***Emporia lies within the boundaries of Greensville Co, serves as the County Seat, but is an independent city.**** Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Families County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Slavery Records Wills/Probate Records Website Updates Jan 2012 John Randolph Chambliss Biography Edgar A. Hartley Biography Nathan Brooks Prichard Biography  Oct 2011 Colonel Everard Meade Field Biography Jun 2011 Thomas J. Flythe Obit Apr 2011 Officers Recommended & Qualified for Militia 1782-1815 Bios: Bass, Harris, Jones, Mason, Upshur, Winston Families: Hicks Mar 2011 1813 Postmasters Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Brunswick Co VA - Dinwiddie Co VA Northampton Co NC - Southampton Co VA - Sussex 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.