Jefferson County, West Virginia Genealogy

  United States&#160;  West Virginia&#160;  Jefferson County West Virginia county in the Shenandoah Valley region. County Courthouse  Jefferson County P&#160;O&#160;Box 208 Charles Town, WV 25414 304-728-3215 County Clerk has birth, death from 1853 Military records from 1918 (except Civil War years) </li>Marriage, Probate and Land Records 1801<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="Handybook" /> </li></ul> History Parent County 1801--Jefferson County was created 8 January 1801&#160;from <a href="Berkeley County, West Virginia">Berkeley</a> County. County seat:&#160;Charles Town <span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref" name="Handybook">The Handybook for Genealogists: United States of America,10th ed. (Draper, UT:Everton Publishers, 2002). Boundary Changes See an interactive map of Jefferson County <a href="http://www.n2genealogy.com/westvirginia/wv-maps.html">boundary changes</a>. Record Loss Places / Localities Populated Places Neighboring Counties Resources Research Guides <ul>Good, Rebecca H. and Rebecca A. Ebert. Finding Your People in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia. Bowie, Md.: Heritage Books, 1998. 4th ed. <span class="fck_mw_template"> </li></ul> African American <ul>Heinegg, Paul. <a href="http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Jeffersontax.htm">"Jefferson County Personal Property Tax List, 1802-1820,"</a> ''Free African Americans.com. ''[Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.] </li></ul> Cemeteries Census <span class="fck_mw_template"> Join us in <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/1940census">indexing the 1940 Census</a> Church Court Genealogy It is anticipated that this bibliography will eventually identify all known family histories published about residents of this county. Use this list to: <ul>Locate publications about direct ancestors </li>Find the most updated accounts of an ancestor's family </li>Identify publications, to quote <a href="Elizabeth Shown Mills">Elizabeth Shown Mills</a>, about an ancestor's "FAN Club" [Friends, Associates, and Neighbors] </li></ul> General Compiled genealogies that treat multiple Jefferson County families include: <ul>O'Dell, Cecil. Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia. Marceline, Mo.: Walsworth Pub. Co., 1995. <span class="fck_mw_template">. One of the most impressively researched one-place studies in the United States. In a review, Dorman stated "Comprehensive studies such as this appear only rarely. This volume should be in every Virginia genealogical collection."<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">John Frederick Dorman, &quot;Review of Pioneers of Old Frederick County, Virginia,&quot; in The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 39, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1995):236. </li></ul> <ul>Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants:&#160;A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908, Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. n.p.: n.p., c1909. Available at <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; digital version at <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=10569">Ancestry</a> ($); <a href="http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH26&amp;CISOPTR=11424">Family History Archives</a> and <a href="http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=qcdva3048_shenandoah">World Vital Records</a> ($). [3 copies at FHL.] </li></ul> Bibliography <ul>[Hefflebower] Rohrbach, Lewis Bunker. Hoffelbauer Genealogy, 1585-1993, The American Families Hefelbower, Heffelbower, Heflebower, Hefflebower, Heflybower, Hefflibauer, Heflibauer and Heffelbauer Together with Their German and Austrian Ancestry. Camden, Me.: Picton Press, 1993. <span class="fck_mw_template">. </li>[Hieronymus] Gentry, Veronica J. Descendants of Conrad Hironimus (Heironimus) Whose Will Was Probated in Frederick Co., Virginia in 1816. MSS., available at <span class="fck_mw_template">. </li>[Hieronymus] Chenault, Louise Ryan, John P. Hieronymus, Dorothy Hieronymus, and George P. Unseld. The Hieronymus Story. Salt Lake City, Utah, 1959. </li>[Hieronymus] Hieronymus Family in America. The Hieronymus Story, 1985. Baltimore, Maryland: Gateway Press, 1985. Available at <span class="fck_mw_template">. </li>[Sinclair] Hall, Newman Arnold. "Allerton of Virginia," The Virginia Genealogist, Vol. 32, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1988):83-92; Vol. 32, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1988):171-178; Vol. 32, No. 4 (Oct.-Dec. 1988):287-296; Vol. 33, No. 1 (Jan.-Mar. 1989):13-18; Vol. 33, No. 2 (Apr.-Jun. 1989):94-102; Vol. 33, No. 3 (Jul.-Sep. 1989):175-180. Digital version at <a href="http://www.americanancestors.org/search.aspx?Ca=098&amp;Da=285">American Ancestors</a> ($). <span class="fck_mw_template">. </li></ul> Land Local Histories <ul>Cartmell, T. K. Shenandoah Valley Pioneers and Their Descendants:&#160;A History of Frederick County, Virginia (Illustrated) from Its Formation in 1738 to 1908, Compiled Mainly from Original Records of Old Frederick County, Now Hampshire, Berkeley, Shenandoah, Jefferson, Hardy, Clarke, Warren, Morgan and Frederick. n.p.: n.p., c1909. Available at <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; digital version at <a href="http://search.ancestry.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=10569">Ancestry</a> ($); <a href="http://contentdm.lib.byu.edu/cdm4/document.php?CISOROOT=/FH26&amp;CISOPTR=11424">BYU Family History Archives</a> and <a href="http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=qcdva3048_shenandoah">World Vital Records</a> ($). [3 copies at FHL.] </li>Norris, J. E.. History of the Lower Shenandoah Valley Counties of Frederick, Berkeley, Jefferson and Clarke: Their Early Settlement and Progress to the Present Time, Geological Features, a Description of Their Historic and Interesting Localities, Cities, Towns and Villages, Portraits of Some of the Prominent Men, and Biographies of Many of the Representative Citizens. Chicago: A. Warner, 1890. Original edition available at <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; 1972 reprint available at <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; digital version of original edition at <a href="http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=10570">Ancestry</a> ($); and <a href="http://www.worldvitalrecords.com/indexinfo.aspx?ix=gpc0806346434_jenorris1890">World Vital Records</a> ($). </li></ul> Maps <a href="http://www.lva.virginia.gov/public/wv/map.htm">Map of 1850 Virginia and West Virginia</a> Military Revolutionary War <ul><li>A Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services: With their Names, Ages, and Places of Residence, as Returned by the Marshalls of the Several Judicial Districts, Under the Act for Taking the Sixth Census]. 1841. Digital versions at <a href="http://www2.census.gov/prod2/decennial/documents/1840c-01.pdf">U.S. Census Bureau</a> and <a href="http://books.google.com/books?id=W7JYAAAAMAAJ">Google Books</a> ''et. al''. 1967 reprint: <span class="fck_mw_template">. [See Virginia, Western District, Jefferson County on page 134.] </li><li>Rejected or Suspended Applications for Revolutionary War Pensions. Washington, D.C., 1852. Reprinted by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., 1969, and 1991. Reprints include&#160;"an Added Index to States." <span class="fck_mw_template"> ; digital version at <a href="http://search.ancestryinstitution.com/search/db.aspx?dbid=48141">Ancestry</a> ($). [Includes veterans from this county; Virginia section begins on page 238.] </li></ul> War of 1812 Jefferson County men served in the 55th Regiment.<span class="fck_mw_ref" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="ref">Stuart Lee Butler, A Guide to Virginia Militia Units in the War of 1812 (Athens, Ga.: Iberian Pub. Co., 1988), 114. . Civil War <ul><li>West Virginia, <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1932429">Civil War Service Records of Union Soldiers, 1861-1865</a> </li></ul> Naturalization West Virginia, <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1909003">Naturalization Records, 1814-1991</a> Newspapers Occupations <ul><li>Cutten, George Barton. The Silversmiths of Virginia (Together with Watchmakers and Jewelers) from 1694 to 1850. Richmond, Va.: The Dietz Press, Incorporated, 1952. <span class="fck_mw_template">. [Includes sections on Charles Town, Harper's Ferry, and Shepherdstown&#160;silversmiths.] </li></ul> Probate Jefferson County, West Virginia <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/image/index#uri=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.familysearch.org%2Frecords%2Fwaypoint%2F14030615%3Fcc%3D1909099">Will Books 1832-1970</a> West Virginia <a href="https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/show#uri=http://www.familysearch.org/searchapi/search/collection/1909099">Will Books</a> Taxation <a href="Virginia Tax Lists">How can Virginia tax lists help me?</a> <ul><li>[1802-1820] Heinegg, Paul. <a href="http://www.freeafricanamericans.com/Jeffersontax.htm">"Jefferson County Personal Property Tax List, 1802-1820,"</a> ''Free African Americans.com. ''[Heinegg abstracted free blacks listed in these records.] </li><li>[1815] Ward, Roger D. 1815 Directory of Virginia Landowners (and Gazetteer). 6 vols. Athens, Georgia: Iberian Pub. Co., 1997-2000. Available at <span class="fck_mw_template">. [The source for this publication is the 1815 land tax. Jefferson County is included in Vol. 6.] </li></ul> Vital Records <span class="fck_mw_template"> Societies and Libraries Family History Centers <ul><li><a _fcknotitle="true" href="Introduction to LDS Family History Centers">Introduction to LDS Family History Centers</a>&#160; </li></ul> Web Sites <ul><li>USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county. </li><li><a href="http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wvjeffer/">Jefferson County, West Virginia Bible Records</a> </li><li><span class="fck_mw_template"> &#160; </li><li><a href="http://www.cyndislist.com/us/wv">Cyndi's List for West Virginia</a> </li></ul> &#160;Learning How to<a href="https://www.familysearch.org/learn/wiki/en/Help:Contributor_Help">Edit our Wiki Sites</a> <span class="fck_mw_template"> References <span class="fck_mw_references" _fck_mw_customtag="true" _fck_mw_tagname="references" /><span class="fck_mw_template">

<a _fcknotitle="true" href="Category:Jefferson_County,_West_Virginia">Jefferson_County,_West_Virginia</a>