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'''National Archives—Mid-Atlantic Region''' (Northeast Philadelphia)<br>14700 Townsend Road<br>Philadelphia, PA 19154-1025<br>Telephone: 215-305-2000<br>Fax: 215-305-2038<br>Website: http://www.archives.gov/midatlantic | '''National Archives—Mid-Atlantic Region''' (Northeast Philadelphia)<br>14700 Townsend Road<br>Philadelphia, PA 19154-1025<br>Telephone: 215-305-2000<br>Fax: 215-305-2038<br>Website: http://www.archives.gov/midatlantic | ||
''' | '''West Virginia Genealogical Society'''<br>P.O. Box 249<br>Elkview, WV 25071 <br>Telephone: 304-965-1179<br>Website: http://members.aol.com/edeaj/wvgenealogicalsociety.html | ||
''' | '''West Virginia Collection'''<br>West Virginia University Library <br>P.O. Box 6069<br>Morgantown, WV 26506-6069<br>Telephone: 304-293-3536 <br>Fax: 304-293-3981<br>Website: http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvcollection | ||
A useful guide to this collection is James W. Hess, ''Guide to Manuscripts and Archives in the West Virginia Collection.'' Morgantown, West Virginia. West Virginia University Library, 1974. (Family History Library {{FHL|47798|title-id|disp=book 975.4 A5h}}; 1959 edition by Charles Shetler, is on {{FHL|217188|title-id|disp=film 940918 item 4}}.) | A useful guide to this collection is James W. Hess, ''Guide to Manuscripts and Archives in the West Virginia Collection.'' Morgantown, West Virginia. West Virginia University Library, 1974. (Family History Library {{FHL|47798|title-id|disp=book 975.4 A5h}}; 1959 edition by Charles Shetler, is on {{FHL|217188|title-id|disp=film 940918 item 4}}.) | ||
'''Library of Virginia''' (State Library)<br>800 East Broad Street<br>Richmond, VA 23219-8000 <br>Telephone: 804-692-3888 <br>Fax: 804-692-3556<br>Website: http://www.lva.lib.va.us | |||
The Virginia State Library is an important resource for pre-1863 West Virginia research. | The Virginia State Library is an important resource for pre-1863 West Virginia research. | ||
'''The Allegheny Regional Family History Society'''<br>Post Office Box 1804<br>Elkins, West Virginia 26241<br>Email: [mailto:arhfs@yahoo.com] <br>Website: http://www.swcp.com/~dhickman/arfhs.html | |||
To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of West Virginia counties, use the 13 inventories of the county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. The Family History Library has copies of all of these inventories. These are listed in the Family History Library Catalog under WEST VIRGINIA - ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES. | To learn more about the history and record-keeping systems of West Virginia counties, use the 13 inventories of the county archives published by the Historical Records Survey around 1940. The Family History Library has copies of all of these inventories. These are listed in the Family History Library Catalog under WEST VIRGINIA - ARCHIVES AND LIBRARIES. | ||