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Virginia Genealogy Trails
welcomes you to
Pittsylvania County
Genealogy and History
Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy

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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)

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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.

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Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List

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County History
Pittsylvania was formed in 1767 out of Halifax County. William Pitt, the 1st Earl of Chatham, is who the county is named after. The western part of Pittsylvania County became Henry County in 1777. Pittsylvania is the largest county in Virginia and consists of over 982 square miles.