Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to James City 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 James City County is located on the Virginia Peninsula in the Hampton Roads region of Virginia.  It was first settled in 1607 by English colonists.  Originally and formally created in 1634 as James City Shire, it is one of the only remaining original five shires of Virginia to still be extant today.  TOWNS & COMMUNITIES Centerville - Croaker - Diascund - Five Forks - Grove - Indigo Park - Jamestown - Kingspoint - Lightfoot - Norge - Toano 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 Jan 2012 Norborne Berkeley Biography James Blair Biography John Blair Biography James Markham Marshall Biography Sir Francis Nicholson Biography Philip Ludwell Biography Ralph Wormeley Biography  Dec 2011 Charles D. Witherspoon Biography Lynhaven Parish Oct 2011 Alexander Spotswood Biography Lemuel Jackson Bowden Biography Jun 2011 Edmund Randolph Biography April 2011 Bios: Armistead, Brooks, Clopton, Constable, Davis, Henley, Jones, Lane, Mercer, Moncure, Trevilian, Tyler, Wharton Mar. 2011 1813 Postmasters Feb 2011 : Bios: Bowden Search our Sites Surrounding Counties Charles City Co VA - Gloucester Co VA - King and Queen Co VA - New Kent Co VA - Surry Co VA - York 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.