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:*'''Online, or by telephone, or fax.''' You can use a credit card to pay their fee and request express delivery of an official West Virginia certified copy of a vital record for an extra fee from the private company '''[https://www.vitalchek.com/birth-certificates/west-virginia/west-virginia-vital-registration VitalChek West Virginia]'''. | :*'''Online, or by telephone, or fax.''' You can use a credit card to pay their fee and request express delivery of an official West Virginia certified copy of a vital record for an extra fee from the private company '''[https://www.vitalchek.com/birth-certificates/west-virginia/west-virginia-vital-registration VitalChek West Virginia]'''. | ||
:'''Genealogical research.''' A good resource for West Virginia genealogical vital record information is the '''[[West Virginia Archives and History]] Library''' in Charleston. Among other sources, they have early (pre-1917) county birth and death records. For marriage records prior to 1964 contact the county clerk of the county where the license was obtained.<ref name="VRGen" /> | :'''Genealogical research.''' A good resource for West Virginia genealogical vital record information is the '''[[West Virginia Archives and History]] Library''' in Charleston. Among other sources, they have early (pre-1917) county birth and death records. For marriage records prior to 1964 contact the county clerk of the county where the license was obtained.<ref name="VRGen" /> | ||
:'''Online indexes.''' Internet sites like Ancestry.com ($) provide information from some of West Virginia's vital records, ''for example'', births 1804-1938, marriages 1785-1971, and deaths 1853-1973.<ref>[http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx#ccat=hc=25&dbSort=1&sbo=1&title=&keyword=West%20Virginia&filter=0*34& Card Catalog - Ancestry.com] Keywords Search for "West Virginia" in the Birth, Marriage & Death category in ''AncestryInstitution.com'' (accessed 16 May 2017).</ref><br><br> | :'''Online indexes.''' Internet sites like Ancestry.com ($) provide information from some of West Virginia's vital records, ''for example'', Ancestry.com has West Virginia births 1804-1938, marriages 1785-1971, and deaths 1853-1973.<ref>[http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/CardCatalog.aspx#ccat=hc=25&dbSort=1&sbo=1&title=&keyword=West%20Virginia&filter=0*34& Card Catalog - Ancestry.com] Keywords Search for "West Virginia" in the Birth, Marriage & Death category in ''AncestryInstitution.com'' (accessed 16 May 2017).</ref><br><br> | ||
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