West Virginia Archives and History: Difference between revisions

Good place to start researching West Virginia ancestors. Original manuscripts, biographies, county histories, and tax records,^[2] family folders, birth, marriages, deaths, maps, naturalizations, newspapers, periodicals, photos, directories, and county court records.^[3]

Tips[edit | edit source]

Admission to the research library and museum is free.^[1]

Guides[edit | edit source]

Alternate Repositories[edit | edit source]

If you cannot visit or find a record at the West Virginia Archives and History, a similar record may be available at one of the following.

Similar Collections

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Neighboring Collections

Library of Virginia, digital sources, databases, vital, military, newspapers, periodicals, tax, history, land records.
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Daughters of the American Revolution Library, Washington DC, Revolutionary War and colonial period, including family and local histories, cemetery transcriptions, Bible records, 15,000 genealogical membership applications.
Maryland State Archives, census, court, church, vital, military, probate, land, tax, immigration, naturalizations.

Sources[edit | edit source]

↑ ^1.0 ^1.1 "Visit the VHS," Virginia Historical Society, http://www.vahistorical.org/visit/location.htm, accessed 10 February 2012.
↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 117. At various libraries (WorldCat). FS Library Ref Book 973 J54d.
↑ West Virginia Archives and History in West Virginia Division of Culture and History (accessed 21 December 2013).

[visit-1] 1.0 ^1.1 "Visit the VHS," Virginia Historical Society, http://www.vahistorical.org/visit/location.htm, accessed 10 February 2012.

[DB117-2] William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 117. At various libraries (WorldCat). FS Library Ref Book 973 J54d.

[3] West Virginia Archives and History in West Virginia Division of Culture and History (accessed 21 December 2013).

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