Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Halifax 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 In 1752, Halifax County was established from Lunenburg County. It was named after George Montague-Dunk, the 2nd Earl of Halifax TOWNS Clarksville - Halifax - Scottsburg - South Boston - Virgilina COMMUNITIES Clover - Cluster Springs - Cody - Nathalie - Omega - Turbeville - Vernon Hill 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 W. Lafayette Watkins Biography David Brandon Will of 1769 David Brandon Will of 1795 Francis Brandon Will George W. Brandon Will Rebecca Brandon Will William Brandon Will Judge H. W. Flournoy Biography Nov 2011 Mrs. Myrta Lockett Avary Biography George P. Watkins Biography J. B. C. Winston Biography Oct 2011 Census Excerpts Jun 2011 Snead-Vaden Marriage Easley Family Biography April 2011 Bios: Byrnes, Myers, Rodgers, Watts Obits: Nichols Mar 2011 Bios: Averett, Clay, Edmunds Feb 2011 Obits: Sizemore, Wade Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Campbell County - northwest * Charlotte County - northeast * Mecklenburg County - east * Granville County, North Carolina - southeast * Person County, North Carolina - south * Caswell County, North Carolina - southwest * Pittsylvania County - west 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.