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General West
Virginia Links
West Virginia Archives and
History
West Virginia Surname
Exchange
Mining Your
History is our statewide genealogy society.
Thousands of West
Virginia Surnames can be found at
this
GenCircles site.
Information
about obtaining West Virginia Birth & Death Certificates
Wondering about those
images on tombstones in West Virginia? Visit this site to learn more about
Gravestone Iconography.
Looking for West
Virginia cities and towns.
Here's a good
place to look. Or you might check
out this site.
West Virginia's GenWeb
Project: Les Shockey is the coordinator for WVGenWeb. Stop by
the site for a visit. This is also a link to ALL county GenWeb pages in the
state. If you haven't done GenWeb yet, you haven't done genealogy on the
Internet!
Colson Hall and
the West Virginia and Regional History Collection at Colson Hall on the WVU
campus in Morgantown is one of the finest places to research your West Virginia
families. Want to see what's in their collection?
Check
out this website!
Virginia Microfilm
Available in West Virginia HCPD can order any of this microfilm
for you to use on Inter-Library Loan in our facility at Horner, WV. And, you
can also order it through your home library for use there. So. . . . Look here
before traveling to Richmond!
It's important to
remember that until 20 June 1863 West Virginia was a part of Virginia. You need
to visit the Virginia State
Library to find all your missing pieces.
If you have
ancestors from the Upper Ohio Valley area in both West Virginia and Ohio, you
might check out Henry Howe's entire book,
Historical
Collections of Ohio.
Cities and
Counties in West Virginia
HCPD's Civil War Site
has been updated. You'll find listings for some of our West
Virginia regiments and information about West Virginians buried at
Andersonville!
Springtime in the Alleghenies is
the time for Ramp Feeds! Wonder what a Ramp is? Wanta' attend a festival.
Come along to Elkins,
West Virginia, for a special treat.
Several bits of
information that might be of interest to researchers in Central West Virginia
will be found
here.
Chalkley's
abstracts of the Scotch-Irish settlers from the Augusta County records is a
primary source for researchers of western Virginia (now W.Va.) during the early
settlement period. Read all three
volumes of Chalkley's here.
The Greenville
Treaty was important to the earliest settlers of Central West Virginia. Visit
the Darke
County, Ohio, page to learn more about the treaty.
Cyndi's Page of many links
pertaining to West Virginia
Wild and Wonderful West Virginia
Index
Check out
Appalachian Heritage today!
Did your ancestor
serve under Major General Anthony Wayne? Lots of Virginians did! This is a must visit
site!
Many West Virginians
were early settlers in Oregon. Search for your missing family members on the
Oregon Trail website.
West Virginia
Family Links
Hersman and other
Central West Virginia connections will be found on
Maude Margaret Hersman's
site.
Bonnett, Waggoner
and other families from
Central West Virginia are found in The Waste Family website.
Betty Dotson Renick
has oodles of West Virginia connections on her site.
Stop by for
a visit!
Johnston/Johnson, Gay, Singleton,
P'fost/Post, Rommetsch, Smith, and Rennie are on
this site - along with
the West Family of Lewis County and Central West Virginia.
Stop by the
SKIDMORE family site.
Nearly 18,000
individuals are listed
in this
site of West Virginia families. Worth your time to visit!
WINEMILLER family settled
in Lewis and Upshur Counties
You might also talk to
Robert Westfall about the Hezekiah
Westfall-Barbara Winemiller families.
Quanah Mount has
MOUNT, BARTLETT, COLE, NUTTER, and
WEBBon his Web Site. We're glad that Quanah told us about his
site.
Larry Metz maintains a Metz Genealogy page. Maybe your West Virginia
connection will be found
here.
Discussion groups
of Hacker's Creek Pioneer Families. It's all automatic. Click the surname, type
sub in the body of the message which appears, then click send. Zip! You'll soon
be talking to others researching YOUR family name. Do you belong to a
surname discussion group dealing with Central West Virginia families?
Send us the subscription
instructions and we'll invite others to participate.
Adkins Family
Genealogy and Reunion.
More information on
the
Colonel
William Lowther family and allied lines at this site.
Crise, Sine, and
Whittaker and others from Barbour and Harrison Counties in West Virginia will
be found on
Sylvia's
site.
Follow this link to
Lori's
SAMPLES genealogy
Rev. Abner Morse wrote
about first 12 Richards that came to these shores, and their descendants,
through 1861. Read about the Morse Book on my web page. Just
scroll down past the technical stuff until you arrive at the Richards Genealogy
page, and click on the various sections. View the actual Morse Book, page by
page, that book, "Genealogical Register of the Descendants of Several
Ancient Puritans," Volume III, by Rev. Abner Morse, cited in "The
Search For Richards" on my web site, which has been
posted by David Blackwell on his
very excellent page. When on the page, scroll down and click on:
Richards1861/
For information on the
Power family, check
out Dr. Donald Maxwell's website.
Should your link
be listed here? Contact us with the
address and we will include it.
Explore more genealogical links
on some of our
West Virginia County Websites.
Explore more genealogical links in our
Gedcoms & Text
Files
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