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Greensville County (Va.) Capitation Tax Lists include list for 1945-1947 and for 1960-1965.

Greensville County (Va.) Marriage Register, 1850-1861, is a list of licenses issued by the County Court clerk. These licenses include the names of the parties and the party of consent. The ages of the parties and the filing date for the license are periodically listed. From 1859-1861, a number was given to each license recorded. An internal index, A-W, is unnumbered. This index is arranged alphabetically by surnames according to the page number in the volume.

Greensville County (Va.) Ministers' Returns, 1850-1861, records the returns made by individual ministers within the county. Returns in this volume, prior to 1859, record the names of the parties, the date of the marriage ceremony and the minister's name and denomination. As part of the return process, ministers filed marriage certificates with the county clerk. These signed documents certified that a minister had performed the actual marriage ceremony between the named individuals on a certain date.

Ministers' Returns, 1785-1851, records the returns made by individual ministers of marriages performed within the county. The majority of returns are in the form of lists which record the date of marriage, the names of the parties married and the county of origin. In the process of preparing and sending the returns, the name of the minister, the minister's denomination and date of return are also recorded. Between pages 4 and 5 of the volume is located an internal index. The index is arranged alphabetically (A-Y) by the groom's surname according to the order of the page numbers in the volume. A loose estray record, dated 1813, is found in the front of the volume. Estray certificates, 1781-1831, are found in the second half of the volume. Estray records were generated by a locality to "give public notice of valuable, tame animals, either lost or found wandering and presumed escaped from their owners, allowing the owners to reclaim the animals." Both halves of the volume were microfilmed separately and spliced together to create one reel.