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Welcome
to Buckingham
County,
Virginia
Family
History
and Genealogy
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Welcome
to Buckingham County,
a free access family history and genealogy web site, a part of the
VAGenWeb and USGenWeb Projects. I am the host for
Buckingham County and I am currently becoming acquainted with all of
the truly fascinating history that honors Buckingham
County. I will research and contribute all I can, but
I encourage each one of you to be a participant of this project and
help develop the spirit and history of the families of Buckingham
County. Since Buckingham
is one of the Virginia counties where records were destroyed or
burned, even more dependence is necessary for researchers and
volunteers to submit data for the benefit of family members across
the country and with roots in Buckingham County. If you have any
material you can share, i.e. family documents, images, photos,
cemetery information, source material, birth, marriage, etc.,
please send them to me and I will display it on the Buckingham
County web site quickly.
Cemeteries are always of
concern due to age, deterioration, and vandalism. Many times a
cemetery transcript and/or tombstone photographs are the only link
to the past (especially in a burned county), thus having the ability
to open many doors for many families. As they say, a
picture is worth a thousand words, especially if the picture
pertains to a loved one. I will support any effort the best I
can for volunteers to turn over every rock in Buckingham
County, finding and
documenting every cemetery, large or small, for an everlasting
record. If you have any suggestions, comments, sources, or
just what-have-you ?, please communicate, send me a line.
I will be very responsive to your request and/or needs.
I would also like to
commend the previous host for Buckingham
County, Ms. Carol
Morrison, whose contributions and devotions to Buckingham
County, and to her
ancestors of Buckingham County, was an inspiration to many
researchers. I am indebted to her and and I am sorry her
schedule has precluded her to cut back on some of her areas of
interest. She will certainly be missed, but I will earnestly
continue her efforts and her commitment to the families of Buckingham
County, Virginia.
Douglas Anderson
If
you would like to host a county in Virginia, please contact
Fred Spradlin, the
VAGenWeb Project Coordinator. You do not have to live in the county
your adopting or even the same state.
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SEARCH THE
BUCKINGHAM COUNTY WEB SITE
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| Buckingham
County was formed in
1761 from Albemarle
County and was probably named either for the English county
of that name or for the Duke of Buckingham. According to
some sources, however, the name came from Archibald Cary's tract
of land called Buckingham, on what was then Willis's Creek. The
county seat (now Buckingham) was first called Maysville. The
second courthouse, designed by Thomas Jefferson, was burned in
1869, when many of the records were destroyed. The Clerk of the
Circuit Court has birth and death records from 1896 and Marriage,
Divorce and Probate Records from 1869.
Parishes: Tillotson.
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Buckingham County Resources
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About the USGenWeb Project
In March and April, 1996, a group of
genealogists organized the Kentucky Comprehensive Genealogy Database
Project. The idea was to provide a single entry point for all
counties in Kentucky, where collected databases would be stored. In
addition, the databases would be indexed and cross-linked, so that
even if an individual were found in more than one county, they could
be located in the index.
In June, as the Kentucky Project was coming to
completion, it was decided to create this page for all states,
establishing the USGenWeb.
Volunteers were found who were willing to coordinate the collection
of county pages for a state page. If you would like to contribute
your data or create a county page within a given state, please
contact the person responsible for maintaining your state page.
Data contributed to this VAGenWeb site must
comply with Fair Use and copyright practices. Documents contributed
to the USGenWeb and VAGenWeb remain the property of the
contributors.
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Copyright © 1999-2011 Douglas Anderson and
Copyright © 1999 Carol Morrison - Fayetteville, North Carolina
For information regarding Buckingham County, VA please
contact: Douglas
Anderson
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