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West Virginia Surname Researchers. The purpose of this list is to assist and bring together people who are researching the same surname in West Virginia.

West Virginia Genealogy Surname Exchange. The Surname Exchange is a list of surnames and researchers compiled from the West Virginia State Archives' Genealogy Exchange cards submitted since 1987. Nearly 1,800 researchers from forty-seven states and seven countries currently participate in the exchange, which is designed to allow genealogists to contact others who are conducting research on identical surnames.

West Virginia Vital Research Records Project. The Vital Research Records Project is placing Birth, Death, and Marriage certificates on-line. Users can search the records and view scanned images of the original records.

West Virginia Marriage Project. This project endeavors to provide actual transcriptions of Marriage Applications and other Marriage Records.

Revolutionary War Pensioners of West Virginia

Unclaimed Civil War Medals : In 1866, the state of West Virginia authorized the minting of over 26,000 medals to honor its Union Civil War soldiers. Today, over 4,000 medals remain unclaimed. In order to claim an ancestor's medal, a claimant must submit his or her line of descent from the veteran along with documentation to support this line of descent.

Biographies of West Virginia Confederate Soldiers

1883 West Virginia Pensioners (partial)

West Virginia Biographies - Index

World Descendant Charts Genealogy Web Project. Linked Descendant Charts of Virginia and West Virginia Families and Their ancestors where ever they came from - Their descendants where ever they went covering many countries of the World and most all of the United States

Biographies of prominent Negro men and women of West Virginia. Published in 1923.

KYOWVA Genealogy Society Surnames (Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia)

Surname Helper : West Virginia. A surname engine for queries and surname registrations posted on various genealogy sites.

Don Norman's Family Files. Don Norman's Family Files are a research tool for your families with connections in Harrison, Lewis, Gilmer, Braxton, Roane, Ritchie, Nicholas, and Clay counties in West Virginia.

Search Allegheny Regional Family History Society's Web Site. Search for information in The Allegheny Regional Family History Society's on-line database of articles and information or on-line GedCom Files. Covers those counties in northeast West Virginia, southwest Pennsylvania, western Maryland and northwest Virginia.


  • Barbour County

    Barbour County, (West) Virginia: 1850 Census Index


  • Berkeley County

    Morgan Messenger (Berkeley, Berkeley County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2004.


  • Braxton County

    Braxton County, West Virginia 1836 Tax Records

    Braxton County, West Virginia Civil War Soldiers

    Braxton County, West Virginia African American Resources. Births 1853-1860; 1836 Tax List; 1840, 1870 and 1880 Census; Deaths 1853-1880.

    Braxton Citizens' News (Sutton, Braxton County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2005.


  • Brooke County

    Brooke County, West Virginia Surnames. Contact email address provided for each entry.

    Brooke County Review (Wellsburg, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1994.

    Brooke News (Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues from 1991 to 1994.


  • Cabell County

    Cabell County, West Virginia 1890 Special Veterans' Census


  • Calhoun County

    Calhoun County, West Virginia 1890 Special Veterans' Census


  • Gilmer County

    Glenville Democrat (Glenville, Gilmer County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1975.


  • Grant County

    Grant County Press (Petersburg, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1944.


  • Grayson County

    Grayson County, Virginia Church Records


  • Greenbrier County

    Mountain Messenger (Lewisburg, Greenbrier County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1985.


  • Jefferson County

    Farmer's Advocate (Charles Town, Jefferson County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse selected issues back to 1921.


  • Lincoln County

    Lincoln County, West Virginia 1870 Census Images Online


  • Marion County

    Marion County, (West) Virginia: 1850 Census Index


  • Marshall County

    Marshall County, West Virginia 1890 Special Veterans' Census

    Marshall County, West Virginia 1920 Census


  • McDowell County

    The Vance Cemetery, Paynesville, McDowell County, West Virginia


  • Mercer County

    Mercer County, West Virginia GenWeb Project Archives : Biographies, cemetery transcriptions, land abstracts, vital records, and more.


  • Monongalia County

    1790 Census Monongalia County, (West) Virginia

    Monongalia County, (West) Virginia: 1850 Census Index

    1853 Births Monongalia County, West Virginia

    Monongalia County, West Virginia - Pisgah Church Cemetery


  • Ohio County

    Ohio County, (West) Virginia 1850 Census

    Ohio County, West Virginia 1890 Special Veterans' Census


  • Pleasants County

    Pleasants County, West Virginia : Selected Death Records - 1853-1860

    Pleasants County, West Virginia, 1860 Census

    Pleasants County, West Virginia, 1870 Census

    Pleasants County, West Virginia - 1890 Census

    Pleasants County, West Virginia 1890 Special Veterans' Census


  • Roane County

    Times Record (Spencer, Roane County, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search or browse issues back to 2006.


  • Upshur County

    Upshur County, West Virginia 1870 Census (partial)


  • Wirt County

    Wirt County Journal (Elizabeth, West Virginia) (Free Newspaper Online - World Vital Records) : Search of browse issues back to 2006.


  • Wyoming County

    Search 1850 Wyoming County, West Virginia Census Search

  • GenMarket.com - West Virginia : Online Databases, Books, and CD-ROMS.


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