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=== Contact Information  ===
=== Contact Information  ===


==== Virginia ====
==== Virginia ====
 
'''E-mail:'''&nbsp; <br>  
'''E-mail:'''&nbsp; <br>  


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==== West Virginia  ====
==== West Virginia  ====


*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvgs/ West Virginia Genealogical Society]<br>P.O. Box 249<br>Elkview, WV 25071 <br>Telephone: 304-965-1179  
*[http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvgs/ West Virginia Genealogical Society]<br>P.O. Box 249<br>Elkview, WV 25071 <br>Telephone: 304-965-1179


*[http://www.swcp.com/~dhickman/arfhs.html The Allegheny Regional Family History Society] <br>Post Office Box 1804<br>Elkins, West Virginia 26241<br>Email: arhfs@yahoo.com
*[http://www.swcp.com/~dhickman/arfhs.html The Allegheny Regional Family History Society] <br>Post Office Box 1804<br>Elkins, West Virginia 26241<br>Email: arhfs@yahoo.com
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==== Internet Sites  ====
==== Internet Sites  ====


*[http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvhssoc.html West Virginia Historical Society]  
*[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]  
*[http://www.wvculture.org/history/histsocs.html West Virginia Historical, Genealogical, and Preservation Societies]


*[http://westernvahistory.org/ Historical Society of Western Virginia]
*[http://westernvahistory.org/ Historical Society of Western Virginia]

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West Virginia Archives and History

Contact Information[edit | edit source]

Virginia[edit | edit source]

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[1]

Public transportation, maps, and directions:

Wikipedia has more about this subject: Virginia Historical Society

Internet sites and databases:

West Virginia[edit | edit source]

Internet Sites[edit | edit source]

Collection Description[edit | edit source]

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

  • 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[edit | edit source]

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 "Visit the VHS," Virginia Historical Society, http://www.vahistorical.org/visit/location.htm, accessed 10 February 2012.
  2. ↑ William Dollarhide and Ronald A. Bremer. America's Best Genealogy Resource Centers (Bountiful, Utah: Heritage Quest, 1998), 117. At various libraries (WorldCat). FHL 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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Major
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Boyd County Public Library (Ashland, KY) · Clarksburg-Harrison Public Library · Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (Pittsburgh, PA) · Library of Congress (Washington, DC) · Library of Virginia (Richmond, VA) · Martinsburg-Berkeley County Public Library · Mary Ball Washington Museum and Library (Lancaster, VA) · Maryland State Archives (Annapolis, MD) · National Archives I (Washington, DC) · National Archives II (College Park, MD) · National Archives at Philadelphia (PA) · New York Public Library (New York City, NY) · Parkersburg and Wood County Public Library · Roman Catholic Diocese of Charleston · Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown (Santa Cruz, CA) · University of Chicago Library (Chicago, IL) · Virginia Historical Society (Richmond, VA) · Washington National Records Center (Suitland, MD) · West Virginia Archives and History · West Virginia University Wise Library · West Virginia Vital Registration Office
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