Virginia Genealogy Trails welcomes you to Bland 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. If you would like to be notified of when our Virginia sites are updated, Subscribe to our Mailing Lists. Virginia is covered on the Northeast States List County Information Bland County was formed in 1861 from Wythe, Tazewell, and Giles counties. Later there was more land from Giles County added. The people of the area had become dissatisfied with the distance to the various county seats. The rough mountain trails did not lend themselves to the quick and pleasant conduct of necessary legal affairs. There was also great dissatisfaction with taxes paid for the benefit of those far removed from the rugged mountains and valleys of Bland. Thus an act to establish the County of Bland passed the General Assembly of the State of Virginia on March 30, 1861. The county was named after Richard Bland, a leader of Colonial Virginia whose arguments laid the intellectual foundation for freedom and independence from the mother country. [wikipedia.org] Online Data Bibles Biographies Birth Records Cemeteries Census Records Church / Religion County Records Death Records Families County History Marriage Records Military Records Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries Photographs Queries School Records Slaves / Slavery Wills / Probate Records County Updates May 2012 - 1890 Veteran's Census - Unknown Location  Dec 2011 Rev. William Ward Hicks Biography Jul 2011 Harman Family Marriages Search our Sites Surrounding Counties * Mercer County, West Virginia - north * Giles County - northeast * Pulaski County - southeast * Wythe County - south * Smyth County - southwest * Tazewell County - west Visit our National Site Visit our VA State Site Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.