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[[West Virginia Church Records|West Virginia Church Records]]: Depending on the denomination, church records can contain information about birth, marriage and death.
[[West Virginia Cemeteries|West Virginia Cemetery Records]]
[[West Virginia Census|West Virginia Census]]
[[West Virginia Newspapers|West Virginia Newspapers]]
[[West Virginia Periodicals|West Virginia Periodicals]]
[[West Virginia Military Records|West Virginia Military Records]]: Military pension records can give birth, marriage and death information,  In addtion, soldiers' homes records can included this same information.
[[West Virginia Probate Records|West Virginia Probate Records]]: If no death record exists, probate records can be helpful in estimating when an individual has died. Probate records in the 20th Century can contain the exact death date.
[[West Virginia History|West Virginia History]]: Local histories, family histories and biographies can all be sources of birth, marriage and death information. Often this information is found in county-level records or in surname searches of the Family History Library catalog.


=== Archives, Libraries and Societies  ===
=== Archives, Libraries and Societies  ===
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