What's New

Here is a log of the latest updates, changes, and additions to the Dinwiddie County VAGenWeb as well as what is coming up next!

Recently Added

2026

• 2026 February 6:Added Coroner's Inquisitions to the African Americans in Dinwiddie County page.
• 2026 February 2: Expanded the African American Heritage page with primary source digital links to the Freedmen's Bureau Field Office Records (1865–1872) for Dinwiddie Courthouse and Petersburg.
• 2026 January 7: Compiled a biography of Dr. James Greenway. Additionally added two images of Dr.(Image 20) and Mrs. Greenway (Image 21)
• 2026 January 6: Began the transcription and index of Dinwiddie's Publick Claims. Publick Claims Landing Page
• 2026 January 5: Updated the Wales Plantation page with the inclusion of a slide gallery of 53 images of Wales from 1974, 1995 and 2009 courtesy of the Virginia Department of Historical Resources

2025

• 2025 December 28: Created the Wales Plantation page.
• 2025 December 28: Added Images 18: Historic American Buildings Survey, Creator, and Howell Briggs. Wales, U.S. Route 460 vicinity, Petersburg, VA.. & 19: Wales (Dinwiddie County, Va.) house.
• 2025 December 23: Updated the Louise (Louisa) Jones page to include a biographcial sketch
• 2025 December 19: Transcribed nine Dinwiddie death notices from the Family Visitor 1822-1824 and added to the Obituary page
• 2025 December 10: Added Images 16: Loblolly pine trees in Dinwiddie & 17: Wales house.
• 2025 December 10: Created the Estate Records for Lewis Meredith (1859-62) page.
• 2025 December 9: Created the WPA Slave Narrative: 1937 Interview with Louise Jones page.
• 2025 December 7: Updated and enhanced the Yellow Fever 1794 page.
• 2025 December 7: Updated and enhanced the Mason History page.
• 2025 December 7: All pages have been updated with a new navigation menu so that the menu is constant across all pages, except for a few legacy pages that we aren't planning on converting at this time.
• 2025 December 6: Converted the transcription of the Ministers’ Returns & Marriage Index (1850–1867) pages to the new template
• 2025 December 2: Uploaded and linked Blandford Cemetery tombstone images provided by Ken Schultz and Margaret Gagliardi to indexed pages T - Z. This upload of over 700 images is complete.
• 2025 December 1: Uploaded and linked Blandford Cemetery tombstone images provided by Ken Schultz and Margaret Gagliardi to indexed pages A - S.
• 2025 November 30: Updated the Home Welcome Webpage
• 2025 November 28: Created the African American History Webpage
• 2025 November 28: Began updating individual pages with updated navigation menu and footer
• 2025 November 25: Created the Biography of General William H. Brodnax Page
• 2025 November 25: Updated the Kingston Historic Home Page including adding two embedded photos to the photo gallery
• 2025 July 2: Added Map 3:WPA Inventory Annotated Map
• 2025 July 2: Updated the Cemeteries page and created pages for the Corinth, Mansons and Mizpah Cemeteries
• 2025 July 1: Created the Monthly Sketch of John Pegram and posted to the Dinwiddie Families Page
• 2025 June 23: Updated the five Bishop Deed pages
• 2025 June 21: Created the Kingston and Winona-Powell House Pages
• 2025 June 21: Added Images 9 — 13.
• 2025 June 19: Converted the remaining Miltary Pages to the updated format
• 2025 June 19: Converted the Harper Family Notes Page
• 2025 June 19: Converted the Roland B. Gill Autobiographical Page and added additional content
• 2025 June 8: Removed the Blandford Thumbnail page. Created Blandford Tombstone and Image and Transcription Page and Index pages and began to link Blandford Cemetery images thanks to Ken Schultz and Margaret Gagliardi
• 2025 June 5: Converted and Updated Sapony Church and Cemetery page. Converted and consolidated the Blandford Cemetery pages to a link off a new Blandford Cemetery page. Added several Blandford Images.
• 2025 June 4: Added Map 2 to the Dinwiddie Historical Maps page
• 2025 June 3: Created the Monthly Sketches and Quarterly Transcription Pages as well as first sketch ofAlfred W. Harris. Added Image 6 of Alfred W. Harris to the Dinwiddie Historical Images
• 2025 June 3: With the site conversion complete, we're now updating individual pages and fixing any broken links.
• 2025 June 3: Converted the Miltary Records Page
• 2025 June 2: Created the Death, Obituary, and History Pages
• 2025 June 1: Created the Vital Index, Birth and Marriage Pages
• 2025 June 1: Created the Court Records Index and Misc. Court Records Pages
• 2025 June 1: Created the Retired Resources Page for archiving the old Query and Surname Records
• 2025 May 29: Created the USGenWeb Family Group Sheets Special Projects and Court Index and Deed and Land Records Pages
• 2025 May 25: Created the USGenWeb Special Projects Page and converted the Dinwiddie Families pages; added USGenWeb Special Project sites to search engine
• 2025 May 25: Converted the 1870 US Census and 1920 US Census pages to the new website format and added additional information to the page
• 2025 May 23: Converted the 1850 US Census page to the new website format and added additional information to the page
• 2025 May 23: Transitioned to the new Dinwiddie County, Virginia USGenWeb site and archived the old site (which is still available for reference during the transition)
• 2025 May 23: Added Allen Family Bible page
• 2025 May 22: Created Books, Apamatica, and Mansfield and Historic Homespages and converted the Apamatica Ch1 and Old Homes pages from 2006 version of the site
• 2025 May 20: Created Bible Index page, Bain and Bristow bible pages from 2006 version of the site
• 2025 May 19: Created Community Index, Agriculture Heritage Index, and 4-H and FFA Heritage pages.
• 2025 May 19: Created Cemetery Index page. 🛠️ Note: This page is currently under construction and will be updated regularly.
• 2025 May 18: Created Census Records Index page
• 2025 May 18: Added Map 1 to the Dinwiddie Historical Maps
• 2025 May 18: Added Images 1-5 to the Dinwiddie Historical Images
• 2025 May 18-June 3: Restoring content from the 2006 version of the site
• 2025 May 18: Thanks to Templates-in-Time, Dinwiddie County VAGenWeb site has a new updated look
• 2025 May 18: Ed Olsen accepted as new Dinwiddie County, Virginia USGenWeb county coordinator

2006-2025

• 2006-2025: Dinwiddie County VAGenWeb site is dormant and no new content

1999-2006

• 1999-2006: Dinwiddie County VAGenWeb site is hosted by Beth Bond, Nola Duffy and Carol Morrison

 

Help Preserve Dinwiddie’s History!

We welcome your contributions to this community project. If you have family records, photographs, cemetery transcriptions, military rosters, newspaper clippings, or other genealogical materials related to Dinwiddie County, please consider sharing them. Your submissions can help others researching their roots and ensure these resources are preserved for future generations. To contribute or ask questions, just the county coordinator. Every piece of history matters—thank you for being part of the effort!

 

Last Updated: February 2, 2026

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