Founded in the year 1833 and named in the favor of Louis Winston, the Winston County occupies an area of 610 sq mi approximately. Louisville is the most densely populated city and the county seat. A population of around 19.1K with an excellent admixture of White, Native American, black or African American, Asian, Hispanic or Latino, Pacific Islander, and others along with more than 7.5K housing units and 5.4K families are found residing in this county.

The Winston County records index acts as the valuable online tool for genealogy records searchers to collect information on birth place and date, marital status, divorce decree, death and obituary including cemetery and burial news, naturalization and immigration reports, ancestral SSN data, census archive, military service and enlistment details, land and property allocation records, probate data including civil court proceedings, World War I&II and American civil war records, adoption history and so on.