Virginia Genealogy Trails
welcomes you to
Princess Anne 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 History
Princess Anne County is an extinct county which was located in the British Colony of Virginia and the Commonwealth of Virginia from 1691 until 1963. Most of the former county is now located within the limits of the independent city of Virginia Beach.

The following communities were included in Princess Anne County.
Back Bay - Blossom Hill - Cape Henry - Creeds - Dam Neck - Great Neck - Hilltop - Green Lakes - Little Island - London Bridge - Lynnhaven - Kempsville - Mapleton - Munden Point - Newtown - Oceana - Pleasant Ridge - Princess Anne - Pungo - Sandbridge - Seatack - Thalia - Virginia Beach - Wash Woods