Virginia Genealogy Trails
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York County Genealogy
and History
Volunteers
Dedicated to Free Genealogy
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.
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County History
York County was formed
originally as Charles River Shire for King Charles I. Charles
River Shire was named for the younger son of King James I.
Charles River Co and the Charles River names were changed to York
County and York River during the English Civil War. The river,
county and town Yorktown are thought to have been named for York, a
city in Northern England
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