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Welcome
to
Nansemond County, Virginia
An Extinct County of Virginia
A Proud Part of The Genealogy Trails Group
Dedicated to Providing FREE Genealogy For ALL!
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Hello and
welcome to the Genealogy Trails website for the EXTINCT Nansemond
County, Virginia. 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.
This is a continuation of our original, and highly successful,
Genealogy Trails Illinois History and Genealogy Project and we are
excited about this opportunity to expand into other states. We welcome
your feedback and comments, and of course, your data contributions. If
you have data that you would like to have posted on this website,
please contact me.
We're
looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and
are interested in helping this project be as successful as our Illinois
websites are. If
you think you might be interested in joining our group, view our Volunteer
Page for further information and instructions on signing up..
If
you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website
updates, subscribe to our mailing lists
You are welcome to browse the
information on these pages and at the many links provided to garner the
data needed to continue your research into your family history.
However, Please remember that this information, in many cases,
represents years of painstaking research on the part of myself, or the
many generous volunteers who have donated their information to this
site. You can show your respect for these efforts by not taking things
to use on other websites and/or to claim as your own. I thank you in
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A LITTLE HISTORY ABOUT
NANSEMOND COUNTY VIRGINIA
Nansemond was named after a tribe
of Native Americans who lived along
the Nansemond River when Jamestown was settled by English colonists
around 1607.
Nansemond
County was once located in the Virginia Colony and the Commonwealth of
Virginia in the United States. While it existed from 1646 untio
1972,
it is now considered an extinct county. The Virginia
Company of
London, in 1619, included Elizabeth Cittie in the area which became
Nansemond County. The Virginia Company lost it's proprietary
charter
in 1624 and became a royal colony. The County Seat of Nansemond
County
was moved from Jarnigan's or Cohoon's Bridge, to a new town named
Suffolk, in 1750. Suffolk became an incorporated town in 1808,
and in
1910, an independent city. The County Seat and courts remained in
Suffolk after Suffolk became politically independent of Nansemond
County. In July 1972, Nansemond County became an independent city
named Nansemond. The new city merged with the existing city of
Suffolk
on January 01, 1974. It assumed the name of Suffolk.
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