Virginia Public Records online by County
Below is a list of Virginia counties with links to public records they offer online. This list will be updated with links to more public records online. Clerks offices in Virginia offer free access to historic land records-some online.
At the County level these records include:
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property & land searches at Assessor (known as Commissioner of Revenue)
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property tax records at Treasurer
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recorded documents at Clerk
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and plat surveys at GIS & Mapping
For genealogy and family history purposes we’ve used these resources to look up addresses of former homes, figure out when someone lived there, track the value of the real estate, & document upturns and downturns in a family’s economic situation. It’s also helpful to look up any recorded documents, probate, deeds, lawsuits to track family members & add some depth to the family history.
State of Virginia
- Virginia Clerk – land records, free by creating a username and password
*has onsite Genealogy records
Augusta County Courthouse “The predominant record types stored at the Augusta County courthouse include deeds, law cases, criminal cases, land records, wills, and estate inventories that date back to the mid-1700’s. The Augusta County court records are the most voluminous and are one of the longest and most complete continuous collections of court records of any locality in the Commonwealth. They document an unusually large geographic area. For the period 1745 to 1770, the boundaries of Augusta County encompassed most of western Virginia and what became the states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Illinois, and Ohio, and parts of present-day Pennsylvania as far north as Pittsburgh. Between 1789 and 1808, Augusta County was the seat of a district court that heard lawsuits that originated in neighboring localities. They remain in the Augusta County courthouse to this day. Taken in totality, the records stored in the Augusta County courthouse are invaluable. They do not just document Augusta County history, but Virginia and the United States history as well.”
Virginia Mass Appraisal Network – searches these cities for a fee
- Amherst County
- Bath County
- Bland County
- City of Bristol, VA
- City of Fredericksburg
- City of Norton
- City of Waynesboro
- City of Winchester
- Clarke County
- Culpeper County
- Delmar, Delaware
- Dinwiddie County
- Essex County
- Franklin County
- Frederick County
- Gloucester County
- Goochland County
- Grayson County
- Greensville County
- Isle of Wight County
- King George County
- Lancaster County
- Louisa County
- Middlesex County
- Millsboro, Delaware
- Milton, Delaware
- Orange County
- Page County
- Powhatan County
- Rappahannock County
- Rehoboth Beach, DE
- Rockbridge County
- Russell County
- Scott County
- Seaford, Delaware
- Shenandoah County
- Smyth County
- Warren County
- Washington County
- Westmoreland County
- Wythe County
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