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West Virginia Genealogy Databases
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West Virginia Statewide Genealogy at Ancestry
- A history of the valley of Virginia
- Annual report of the Adjutant General of the State of West Virginia for the year ending, 1864-1865
- Art work of scenes in the Valley of Virginia, published in twelve parts
- Genealogies of West Virginia Families
- Sims index to land grants in West Virginia
- South-west Virginia and the Valley : historical and biographical.
- The border settlers of northwestern Virginia from 1768 to 1795
- Virginia Census, 1607-1890
- Virginia Marriages before 1824
- Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1694-1742. [Vol. I]
- Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1742-1775. [Vol. II]
- Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1775-1800. [Vol. III]
- Virginia Northern Neck Land Grants, 1800-1862. [Vol. IV]
- Virginia Vital Records
- Virginia, Marriages, 1660-1800
- Virginia, Marriages, 1740-1850
- Web: West Virginia, Find A Grave Index, 1788-2011
- West Virginia Cemetery Readings, 1941
- West Virginia Census, 1860-90
- West Virginia Estate Settlements
- West Virginia History, Vol. 1
- West Virginia History, Vol. 2
- West Virginia History, Vol. 3
- West Virginia Marriage Records, 1863-1900
- West Virginia Prominent Men
- West Virginia, Births Index, 1853-1969
- West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973
- West Virginia, Marriages Index, 1785-1971
- West Virginia, Order Sons of Italy in America, Lodge Records, 1921-1969
West Virginia Military at Ancestry
- A diary : with reminiscences of the war and refugee life in the Shenandoah Valley, 1860-1865
- The Soldiery of West Virginia
- Union and Confederate Soldiers and Sympathizers of Barbour County, West Virginia
- West Virginia 5th Cavalry Roster
- West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors
- West Virginians in the American Revolution
Miscellaneous West Virginia at Ancestry
- History of the Galley family : with local and old-time sketches in the Yough region
- Legends of the Skyline Drive and the Great Valley of Virginia
- Memory days in which the Shenandoah Valley is seen in retrospection : with glimpses of school days and the life of Virginia peo
- Monongahela, the river and its region
- Pioneers and Their Homes on Upper Kanawha [West Virginia]
- Stockton centennial address
- Stories of the Shenandoah
- The Big Sandy Valley
- The German element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia
- The Grave Creek inscribed stone
- The Monongahela of old, or, Historical sketches of south-western Pennsylvania to the year 1800
- The plight of the bituminous coal miner
- The Shenandoah
- The story of the Robert P. Nixon family of Boothsville, West Virginia
- The Washingtons and their colonial homes in West Virginia
- To the Shenandoah and beyond : the chronicle of a leisurely journey through the uplands of Virginia and Tennessee, sketching th
West Virginia County Genealogy at Ancestry
- Brooke County, West Virginia History to 1882
- Cabell County annals and families
- Cabell County Annals and Families
- Census returns of Lewis County (West) Virginia for 1850 : copied from the original federal census records in the Census Bureau,
- Chronicles of old Berkeley : a narrative history of a Virginia County from its beginnings to 1926
- Fayette County, West Virginia Births, 1866-80
- Fayette County, West Virginia Births, 1881-87
- Fayette County, West Virginia Births, 1888-93
- Hampshire County Marriages of the 1800s
- Hampshire County Records, 1816-1923, Virginia/West Virginia
- Hampshire County [West] Virginia Personal Property Tax Lists, 1800-1814
- Hampshire County, Virginia (now West Virginia): Volume I–Minute Book Abstracts 1788-1802
- Hampshire County, Virginia (now, West Virginia): Volume II–Minute Book Abstracts 1817-1823
- History of Berkeley County, West Viginia
- History of Braxton County and central West Virginia
- History of Fayette County, West Virginia
- History of Hampshire County, West Virginia : from its earliest settlement to the present
- History of Hampshire County, West Virginia : from its earliest settlement to the present
- History of Harrison County, West Virginia
- Marriage Records of Berkeley County, Virginia 1781-1854
- Mason County, West Virginia Marriages, 1806-1915
- Raleigh County, West Virginia Birth Records, 1853-75
- Ritchie County, West Virginia History
- Roane County, West Virginia Families
- The history of Barbour County, West Virginia : from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time
West Virginia Town Genealogy at Ancestry
- Beckley Post-Herald (Beckley, West Virginia)
- Bluefield Daily Telegraph (Bluefield, West Virginia)
- Charleston Daily Mail (Charlestown, West Virginia)
- Charleston Mail (Charleston, West Virginia)
- Dominion Post (Morgantown, West Virginia)
- Fayette Journal (Fayetteville, West Virginia)
- Grafton, West Virginia, Grafton National Cemetery, 1867-2010
- Greenbrier pioneers and their homes
- Post-Herald And Register (Beckley, West Virginia)
- Raleigh Register (Beckley, West Virginia)
- Sunday Gazette-Mail (Charleston, West Virginia)
- The Charleston Daily Mail (Charleston, West Virginia)
- The Dominion News (Morgantown, West Virginia)
- The Dyer settlement, the Fort Seybert massacre : Fort Seybert, West Virginia
- The New Daily Telegraph (Bluefield, West Virginia)
- Weirton Daily Times (Weirton, West Virginia)
- Wheeling, West Virginia Directories, 1888-93