West Virginia Fast Facts and Key Resources

• Statewide marriagerecords begin: 1964

• Contact for vital records:

Room 165
350 Capitol St.
Charleston, WV 25301
(304) 558-2931
<www.wvdhhr.org/bph/oehp/hsc/genealo.htm>

Web Sites
• Cyndi’s List: West Virginia

• Pre-statehood Records at Library of Virginia

• West Virginia Cemetery Transcriptions
<interment.net/us/wv>, <rootsweb.ancestry.com/~cemetery/westvirg/westvirg.html>

• West Virginia GenWeb Project

• West Virginia Links

• West Virginia Resources at RootsWeb
<resources.rootsweb.ancestry.com/USA/WV.html>

• West Virginia Vital Records Online
<www.wvculture.org/vrr/va_select.aspx>

• Appalachia in the Making: The Mountain South in the Nineteenth Century edited by Mary Beth Pudup, Dwight Billings and Altina Waller (University of NorthCarolina Press, $24.95)

• The Family Tree Resource Book for Genealogists edited by Sharon DeBartolo Carmack and Erin Nevius (Family Tree Books)

• West Virginia Encyclopedia edited by Ken Sullivan (West Virginia Humanities Council)

• West Virginia Genealogy Sources and Resources by Carol McGinnis (Genealogical Publishing Co.) 

Organizations and Archives
• Berkeley County Historical Society, Archives and Research Center
136 E. Race St., Martinsburg, WV  25401, (304) 267-4713, <www.bchs.org/genealogy.html>

• West Virginia Genealogical Society and Library
5238 Elk River Road N., Box 249, Elkview, WV 25071, (304) 965-1179, ext. 168, <members.aol.com/edeaj/wvgenealogicalsociety.html>  

• West Virginia Historical Society
Box 5220, Charleston, WV 25361, (304) 558-0230, <www.wvculture.org/history/wvhssoc.html>

• West Virginia University West Virginia and Regional History Collection
Library, Box 6069, 1549 University Ave., Morgantown, WV 26506, (304) 293-3536, <www.libraries.wvu.edu/wvcollection>  

• West Virginia State Archives
The Cultural Center, Capital Complex, 1900 Kanawha Blvd. E., Charleston, WV 25305, (304)