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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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