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Hello and welcome to the Northumberland County VAGenweb page. I am pleased to be your county coordinator.

As always, genealogy submissions are very welcome. If you have any documents or information on genealogy in Northumberland County, email me and share it with everyone that views this website. Submissions can be sent to maloneys7193@gmail.com

I am Rebecca Maloney, County Coordinator for this Northumberland County, Virginia 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 other ones in Virginia please contact me or our State Coordinator Jeff Kemp.

~Rebecca Maloney

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Northumberland County Was Established

Northumberland is named for a County in England and originally called Chickcoun, the history of the county dates back to 1648 when it was officially established, although the area began to be settled earlier in the 17th Century. The county was split in the early 1650's with Lancaster County being formed from the southern part in 1652, and Westmoreland County being formed out of the western part of Northumberland County in 1653. Heathsville is the seat of Northumberland County. The county records suffered some loss in a fire in the clerk's office on 25 October 1710. For more history of the county and region, visit the History section on the menu to the left.

I hope you find my efforts helpful in your research of Northumberland County roots. I am unable to do additional research on your family as I live in North Carolina and do not have direct access to records. I post everything I have for all to use.

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"The Chosen"

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."

 

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If you have questions, contributions, or problems with this site, email:

Northumberland County Coordinator - Rebecca Maloney

State Coordinator: Jeff Kemp

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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.

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