Augusta County, Virginia Genealogy

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History
An interesting study, called the Valley of the Shadow Project, has collected military and private papers detailing the experience of the Civil War in Franklin County, Pennsylvania and Augusta County,Virginia.

Parent County
1738--Augusta County was created 1 August 1738 from Orange County. County seat:  Staunton

Neighboring Counties

 * Albemarle
 * Bath
 * Highland
 * Nelson
 * Pendleton County, West Virginia
 * Rockbridge
 * Rockingham

Cemeteries
For a more detailed list, including addresses, phone numbers, and external links, see Augusta County, Virginia Cemeteries.

The following is a list of cemeteries in Augusta County:

The Genealogy Center at Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has searchable databases for a number of Augusta County cemeteries.

Minorities
The Valley of the Shadow website has the Register of Free Blacks in Augusta County, Virginia, 1803-1845. Site also has a link to the Staunton City Register.

Newspapers
Indexed images of the Virginia Gazette(1736-1780) are available online through the Colonial Williamsburgwebsite. In addition, Professor Tom Costa and The Rector and Visitors of the University of Virginia have created a database of all runaway advertisements for slaves, indentured servants, transported convicts, and ship deserters listed in this source and other Virginia newspapers (1736-1803), see: The Geography of Slavery in Virginia. These newspapers are valuable resources for all regions of Virginia.

Vital Records
Some early marriages (groom only list) 1748-1788 are found in volume 2 ''Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia FHL 975.5916 F2c. ''These records were copied from a clerk's record book that was lost some time after the author transcribed the list in 1912. The original list was the clerk's record of marriage license payments and the date of the payment.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.
 * Family History Library Catalog