West Virginia Online Genealogy Records

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Guide to West Virginia Online Genealogy Records for researching ancestry, family history and genealogy: birth, marriage, death, census, church, military, immigration, and naturalization records.

West Virginia Statewide Online Genealogy Records This chart shows links to statewide collections. To find links to collections for lower jurisdictions (such as a county or town), go to Locating Online Databases. Ancestry.com, FindMyPast.com, and MyHeritage.com can be searched free of charge at your local family history center or the Family History Library in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Vital Records West Virginia State-wide, County Birth, Marriage and Death Records are online at the West Virginia Division of Culture and History, Archives and History. Beginning 1853. Births United States, West Virginia Births, index, ($) WV Division of Culture and History Birth Records West Virginia, Births Index, 1853-1969 Abstracts ($) West Virginia Birth Index, 1853-1914, index and images ($) West Virginia, Births and Christenings, 1853-1928 Index only. West Virginia, Births, 1853-1930 Index and Images Marriages WV Division of Culture and History Marriage Records. United States Marriages – West Virginia, 1674-1966 ($) index and images West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970 Index and images. West Virginia, Marriages Index, 1785-1971 ($) West Virginia Marriage Records, 1863-1900 ($) West Virginia, Marriage Index, 1931-1970, index. ($) Deaths WV Division of Culture and History Death Records West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999 Index and images. West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973 West Virginia Death Index & Certificates, 1853-1964, index and images ($) West Virginia, Deaths and Burials, 1854-1932 Index only. Index of Fatalities in West Virginia Coal Mines 1883-1925 United States Social Security Death Index. U.S., Social Security Applications and Claims Index, 1936-2007, incomplete, ($). African-Amercan Resources African American Online Genealogy Records, list of nationwide databases History of the American Negro, West Virginia Edition, index of biographies Biographies County and Town Histories with biographies Men of West Virginia ... v. 1, Vol. 2, e-book 1915 hand-book of West Virginia : the state's wonderful development, its natural resources and industrial advantages, biographies of prominent citizens and stories of leading business institutions, e-book An inside view of the formation of the state of West Virginia. With character sketches of the pioneers in that movement, e-book Cemetery Records West Virginia Cemetery Records at Interment.net Findagrave.com West Virginia Cemetery Records BillionGraves.com West Virginia Cemeteries Free! BillionGraves.com Index USGenWeb West Virginia Tombstone Transcription Project West Virginia Cemetery Readings, 1941, ($), index West Virginia Cemetery Records, by county Cemetery Junction I Dream of Genealogy West Virginia Census United States Online Census, 1790-1940 West Virginia, Compiled Census Index, 1860-1890 Compiled Genealogies Genealogies of West Virginia Families, ($), index A key to southern pedigrees FamilySearch Catalog North America, Family Histories, 1500-2000, index and images, ($). History County and Town Histories with biographies West Virginia Coal Mining West Virginia Prominent Men, index West Virginia History, Vol. 1, Vol. 2, Vol. 3 Land Records Sims Index to Land Grants Bureau of Land Management(BLM), General Land Office (GLO) Records, index Maps West Virginia Maps from MapofUS.org Includes boundary change map.

Military Records General Records U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases Indian Wars, dates vary U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases Revolutionary War, 1774-1783 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases West Virginians in the American Revolution ($) War of 1812, 1812-1815 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases Mexican War, 1846-1848 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases Civil War, 1861-1865 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases West Virginia, Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865 Index and images. Spanish-American War, 1898 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases West Virginia Volunteer Infantry. World War I, 1917-1918 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases World War II, 1941-1945 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases West Virginia, World War II Draft Registration Cards,1940-1945, index and images. Korean War, 1950-1953 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Korean War for Home-State-of-Record: West Virginia Vietnam War, 1964-1972 U.S. Federal Military Indexes and Records, list of nationwide databases U.S. Military Fatal Casualties of the Vietnam War for Home-State-of-Record: West Virginia Naturalization Records U.S. Passport Applications, 1795-1925 ($) West Virginia, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991 - index and images West Virginia, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991 ($), also at FindMyPast, index, and at My Heritage, index U.S., Naturalization Records - Original Documents, (World Archives Project) for West Virginia, 1856-1867 - Northern District, Wheeling, U.S. District Court ($) Newspapers West Virginia Newspapers ($) West Virgina Online Historical Newspapers WV Archives and History Vertical Files NewspaperArchive ($) Obituaries Genealogybank ($) Obituary Depot Obituary Links ObitsArchive.com - West Virginia United States, GenealogyBank Obituaries, 1980-2014 — index and images Periodicals PERiodical Source Index, index and images, ($) Probate Records West Virginia, Wills and Probate Records, 1724-1978, ($), index and images, incomplete. West Virginia, Will Books, 1756-1971 Index and images. Tax Records United States Internal Revenue Assessment Lists, 1862-1874 — images

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