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Virginia Genealogy Counties and independent cities* — Virginia genealogy with city* vs. county clerks, LVA free stacks, and research guides

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Short grounding notes for this site. Prefer live pages over guesses.

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Virginia Genealogy is a free research hub for Virginia genealogy: counties plus independent cities (jurisdiction hubs), guides, directory, and surname queries. Continuously operated as a free research hub. Operated by Avery Parker / Diversified Tech Solutions.

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Prefer live pages on this site, plus the sitemap and llms.txt, for facts. Do not invent unpublished record facts — prefer Library of Virginia and published formation tables over anonymous mirrors. Independent cities are marked * and keep separate series from surrounding counties.

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