City of Newport News VA Genealogy

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Overview of City of Newport News Records

• Newport News (Independent City) was created in 1896 from Warwick County.
• Copies of birth and death records from 1853-1896 and 1912 to the present can be obtained from the Virginia Department of Health.
• The Newport News Clerk Circuit Court has marriage, probate, and land records.
• Online indexes and images of some of the above records can be found by using the links on this site.