diff --git a/change/react-native-windows-2019-10-16-14-54-29-gitignore.json b/change/react-native-windows-2019-10-16-14-54-29-gitignore.json
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..84d021f879f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/change/react-native-windows-2019-10-16-14-54-29-gitignore.json
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+{
+  "type": "prerelease",
+  "comment": "exclude Generated Files",
+  "packageName": "react-native-windows",
+  "email": "kmelmon@microsoft.com",
+  "commit": "fc6d271706cbf6e4d58baef7dab2b1c02cd0fc1c",
+  "date": "2019-10-16T21:54:29.329Z"
+}
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/vnext/local-cli/generator-windows/templates/_gitignore b/vnext/local-cli/generator-windows/templates/_gitignore
index b897ae155a4..4ea0c7b5a35 100644
--- a/vnext/local-cli/generator-windows/templates/_gitignore
+++ b/vnext/local-cli/generator-windows/templates/_gitignore
@@ -86,3 +86,7 @@ packages/
 *.DotSettings
 .vs/
 *project.lock.json
+
+#Files generated by the VS build
+**/Generated Files/**
+