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I am Rebecca Maloney, County Coordinator for this Arlington County, VAGenWeb site. I hope you enjoy your visit. Please email me if you have any suggestions or contributions you would like to make. If you would like to adopt this county or any other Virginia Counties please contact me or our State Coordinator Jeff Kemp
HISTORY OF ARLINGTON COUNTY
Fairfax County ceded
the land of current day Arlington County to the Federal Government in
1789 as part of the District of Columbia, was returned to Virginia in
1846. First called Alexandria, in 1920 it took the name of the
Custis-Lee estate.
Here's a brief outline of the court system's
history for Arlington County:
1789-1801 Jurisdiction of Fairfax
County
1789 - General Assembly cedes land to the federal government
to create the permanent federal govenment seat in Washington, DC
1791 - Survey of District of Columbia
1801 - Federal offices move to
their new home in D.C. from Philadelphia
1801-1846 Jurisdiction of
District of Columbia
1801 - Alexandria Co. And the Circuit Court,
D.C. Is formed. Also formed is the Admiralty Court (1801-1802) and
Orphans' Court.
1802 - U.S. District Court is restored. Consolidated
with Admiralty Court.
1824 - Levy Court is established
1838 -
Criminal Court is created
1846-1920 Retrocession to Virginia
1846
- Alexandria County returned to Virginia
1847 - Alexandria County
Court is organized, assuming the functions of the Levy and Orphans'
Courts.
1852 - Circuit Superior Court of Law and Chancery is formed.
Takes over function of the D.C. Circuit and Criminal Court functions.
1904 - County Court ceases to exist. Jurisdiction is passed on to the
Circuit Court.
1920 - County name is changed to Arlington.
Alexandria Co. ceases to exist.
1748-1870 City of Alexandria History
1748 - Town of Alexandria is chartered in Fairfax County.
1779 -
City re-chartered as a city. Hustings Court established.
1801 -
Hustings Court abolished. Jurisdiction passes to the Circuit Court of
D.C.
1846 - City of Alexandria reverts back to Virginia.
1863 -
Alexandria becomes the capitol of the restored Virginian government. Is
the capitol until 1865.
1870 - Alexandria becomes a city independent
of Alexandria Co. The Corporation Court is organized (similar to a
county Circuit Court)
Since 10 July 2006
I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of Arlington County roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I live in Colorado and do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.
Make sure you check the "Research Resources" section! There are books on line: History of Arlington County, c. 1868 (it has all kinds of names and dates of Arlington County families), indexes of books: "The First 100 Years", also "Yankeetown News" from 1890, books for sale, newspaper articles beginning in 1877, helpful links, look up volunteers and local researchers to help you out.
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We are the chosen. In each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again. To tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. Doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So, we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors, "You have a wonderful family; you would be proud of us.". How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who I am, and why I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying - I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that the fathers fought and some died to make and keep us a nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. It is of equal pride and love that our mothers struggled to give us birth, without them we could not exist, and so we love each one, as far back as we can reach. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are they and they are the sum of who we are. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take my place in the long line of family storytellers. That is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and restore the memory or greet those who we had never known before."
by Della M. Cummings Wright; Rewritten by her granddaughter Dell Jo Ann McGinnis Johnson; Edited and Reworded by Tom Dunn, 1943."
General William Henry Fitzhugh Lee
Robert Edward Lee
Arlington County Courthouse
Arlington National Cemetery
If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:
Arlington County Coordinator - Rebecca Maloney
State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp
Asst. State Coordinators: Vacant
If you have questions or problems with this site, email the County Coordinator. Please to not ask for specfic research on your family. I am unable to do your personal research. I do not live in Indiana and do not have access to additional records.