Marriages, churches, military resources, and places to find original records.
Free genealogy and local history
Welcome to Accomack County VAGenWeb
Free genealogy, records, cemetery information, maps, local history, and research links for Accomack County on Virginia’s Eastern Shore.
Accomack occupies the northern portion of Virginia’s Eastern Shore, with Maryland to the north and Northampton County to the south. The original Accawmack shire of 1634 covered the whole Virginia Eastern Shore; it was renamed Northampton in the 1640s, and present-day Accomack was formed from Northampton in 1663.
That history matters to genealogists. Families moved constantly across today’s county and state lines, so Accomack research often leads south into Northampton County VAGenWeb and north into Maryland’s Lower Eastern Shore.
A rebuilt Accomack site.
This version carries forward useful material assembled by earlier
VAGenWeb coordinators and contributors, while giving Accomack its own
Eastern Shore personality and plenty of room to grow.
Explore Accomack
Cemetery transcriptions, photographs, legacy lists, and Eastern Shore graveyard resources.
Historic maps, county mapping tools, and boundary references.
Archives, libraries, courts, GHOTES, and regional research sites.
County formation, Accomac/Drummondtown, religion, war, railroads, and the Eastern Shore setting.
The legacy Accomack bibliography, cleaned up and easy to scan.
Browse the Lower Delmarva Family Album for people, places, postcards, and family photographs from across the peninsula.
Lower Delmarva discussion, archived boards, and the legacy surname registry.
Send records, cemetery data, photographs, corrections, or volunteer for lookups.
From the old Accomack site
The previous site thanked Mark Lewis, Gene Williams, and Kevin Lett for their work. Their efforts, and the submissions of many researchers, are part of what this rebuilt site is intended to preserve.
Original records still matter
Accomack’s county records reach back into the seventeenth century. Abstracts, transcriptions, and databases are wonderful finding aids, but important conclusions should be checked against original records whenever possible.