West Virginia Archives and History

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West Virginia Archives and History Contact Information Virginia E-mail:  Address: Virginia Historical Society 428 North Boulevard Richmond, Virginia 23220 Telephone: 804-358-4901 Hours: Mon. to Sat. 10 a.m. to  5 p.m., closed federal holidays Public transportation, maps, and directions: Directions to Virginia House Internet sites and databases: Virginia Historical Society Catalog Online Virginia Historical Society home page Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, tables of contents, indexes, online access tips West Virginia West Virginia Genealogical Society P.O. Box 249 Elkview, WV 25071 Telephone: 304-965-1179 The Allegheny Regional Family History Society Post Office Box 1804 Elkins, West Virginia 26241 Email: arhfs@yahoo.com West Virginia Archives and Libraries Internet Sites [http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhssoc.html West Virginia Historical Society] [http://www.wvculture.org/history/histsocs.html West Virginia Historical, Genealogical, and Preservation Societies] Historical Society of Western Virginia] Collection Description Good place to start researching West Virginia ancestors. Original manuscripts, biographies, county histories, and tax records, family folders, birth, marriages, deaths, maps, naturalizations, newspapers, periodicals, photos, directories, and county court records. Tips Admission to the research library and museum is free. Guides Alternate Repositories 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 Family History Library, Salt Lake City, 450 computers, 3,400 databases, 3.1 million microforms, 4,500 periodicals, 310,000 books of worldwide family and local histories, civil, church, immigration, ethnic, military, Mormon records. Allen County Public Library (Indiana) has a premier genealogical periodical collection, genealogies, local histories, databases, military, censuses, directories, passenger lists, American Indians, African Americans, Canadians. Neighboring Collections Library of Virginia, digital sources, databases, vital, military, newspapers, periodicals, tax, history, land records. National Archives I, Washington DC, census, pre-WWI military service & pensions, passenger lists, naturalizations, passports, federal bounty land, homesteads, bankruptcy, ethnic sources, prisons, and federal employees. 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