Genealogy

Our office is responsible for housing and maintaining certain historical records beginning with Fincastle County, for the period of 1773-1777, and Montgomery County, for the period of 1777 and continuing. These records include land records/deeds, property tax records, limited revolutionary and civil war records, free negro records, civil and chancery court records (lawsuits and divorces), marriages and estates.

We also have limited birth and death records which date from 1853 to 1868 - the period before and after the Civil War. Other birth and death records must be requested from the Bureau of Vital Statistics in Richmond.

Looking for a specific record in our archives?

Related links and Genealogy resources:

• Carol Newman Library at Virginia Tech
• Civil War manuscripts
• Giles County Historical Society
• Image base
• Library of Virginia: The State Library and Archives of Virginia
• Local genealogical resources
• Montgomery Museum of Art and History
• National Archives
• New River Notes
• Roots Web
• Special collections
• University of North Carolina - Documenting the American South
• University of North Carolina - Southern Historical Collection
• Social Explorer
• Wythe County Museum
• National Historical Geographic Information System

Phone: (540) 382-5760

1 - Marriage Licenses, Payment Options and other General Questions
2 - Criminal division
3 - Civil division
4 - Probate division
5 - Land records/Record room
6 - Jury Information

Public hours:

Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.

Recording hours: 
Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Marriage license hours:
Mon.-Fri., 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m.