Virginia Genealogy Trails
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Prince William 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.



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County History
An act of the General Assembly of the Colony of Virginia in 1731 created Prince William County Virginia. 
It came from a part of King George Co & Stafford Co. Originally it also included a parts of Arlington Co, Alexandria City, Fairfax Co,
Fairfax City, Falls Church City, Fauquier Co, Loudon Co, Manasses City, and Manassas Park City.
The county was named after the Duke of Cumberland, Prince William Augustus - a son of King George II.

NATIONAL PROTECTED AREAS
Featherstone National Wildlife Refuge - Manassas National Battlefield Park
Occoquan Bay National Wildlife Refuge - Prince William Forest Park

Surrounding Counties & Independent Cities

| Charles Co, MD | Fairfax | Fauquier | Loudoun| Stafford |