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Virginia Genealogy Trails
welcomes you to
Nansemond 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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County History
Nansemond was named after a tribe of Native Americans who lived along the Nansemond River when Jamestown was settled by English colonists around 1607. 
Nansemond County was once located in the Virginia Colony and the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States.  While it existed from 1646 untio 1972, it is now  considered an extinct county.  The Virginia Company of London, in 1619, included Elizabeth Cittie in the area which became Nansemond County.  The Virginia Company lost it's proprietary charter in 1624 and became a royal colony.  The County Seat of Nansemond County was moved from Jarnigan's or Cohoon's Bridge, to a new town named Suffolk, in 1750.  Suffolk became an incorporated town in 1808, and in 1910, an independent city. 
The County Seat and courts remained in Suffolk after Suffolk became politically independent of Nansemond County.  In July 1972, Nansemond County became an independent city named Nansemond.  The new city merged with the existing city of Suffolk on January 01, 1974.  It assumed the name of Suffolk.

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