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United States West Virginia  Archives and Libraries''

The following repositories preserve sources, maintain indexes, and provide services to help genealogists document their ancestors who lived in West Virginia. Remember, prior to 1863 West Virginia was part of Virginia and many early West Virginia records are housed in Virginia repositories.

Wiki Articles on Major Repositories in West Virginia
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Online Records of West Virginia
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Library of Congress
Library of Congress 101 Independence Ave. SE Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ G4 Washington, D.C. 20540-4660 Telephone: Reading Room: 202-707-5537 Fax: 202-707-1957 E-mail: Ask a Librarian form Website: Library of Congress
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 * The Library of Congress "Local History and Genealogy Reading Room" has moved to the main reading room, but services are unchanged. They are part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American (including West Virginia), British Isles, and German sources.

National Archives II
National Archives at College Park, Maryland (Archives II) 8601 Adelphi Road College Park, MD 20740-6001 Telephone: 866-272-6272 Fax: 301-837-0483 E-mail: I have a question form Internet: National Archives at College Park, Maryland


 * Archives II houses documents created after 1900 at the departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Housing and Urban Development, Interior, Justice, Labor, State, Transportation, and Treasury, modern military records, passport applications, and District of Columbia records. Residents of West Virginia are found in their records.

National Archives at Philadelphia
National Archives at Philadelphia 14700 Townsend Road Philadelphia, PA 19154-1096 Telephone: 215-305-2044 Fax: 215-305-2052 E-mail: [mailto:Philadelphia.archives@nara.gov Philadelphia.archives@nara.gov] Website: National Archives Philadelphia


 * This branch has federal agency and court records for Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia. All U.S. federal censuses 1790-1940, and indexes. Also has passenger arrivals in Philadelphia 1800-1945 and Baltimore, pension and bounty land warrant applications, naturalizations 1790-1990, early federal history, diplomacy, military history, Chinese-Americans, World War II homefront, National Park Service, merchant marine, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, federal tax evasion and smuggling cases.

West Virginia Archives and History
West Virginia Archives and History The Cultural Center Capitol Complex 1900 Kanawha Boulevard East Charleston, WV 25305-0300 Telephone: 304-558-0220 Fax: 304-558-2779 Website: Archives and History Library

West Virginia Genealogical Society
West Virginia Genealogical Society P.O. Box 249 Elkview, WV 25071 Telephone: 304-965-1179 Website: West Virginia Genealogical Society

Allegheny Regional Family History Society
Allegheny Regional Family History Society PO Box 1804 Elkins, West Virginia 26241 Email: arhfs@yahoo.com Website: The Allegheny Regional Family History Society

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West Virginia University Wise Library
West Virginia University Wise Library West Virginia and Regional History Center PO Box 6069 Morgantown, WV 26506-6069 Telephone: 304-293-3536 Fax: 304-293-3981 Website: West Virginia Collection


 * World's largest collection of West Virginia-related research material including 4.5 million manuscript documents, 30,000 books, 15,000 pamphlets, 1,200 newspapers, 100,000 photographs and prints, 5,000 maps, 25,000 microfilms, and oral histories.
 * 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. The 1959 edition by Charles Shetler, is on

Library of Virginia
Library of Virginia 800 East Broad Street Richmond, VA 23219-8000 Telephone: 804-692-3500 Fax: 804-692-3556 E-mail: Contact Us Select department to open dialog box Website: Library of Virginia


 * The Library of Virginia is an important resource for pre-1863 West Virginia research. Their large genealogical collection has family Bibles, birth, marriages, deaths, divorces, histories, biographies, and newspapers. Many of their manuscripts are now online. The General Library contains printed materials, while the Research and Information Services Division consists of government records and other historical documents. Many collections are available online, such as Confederate pensions, veterans and widows, an index to wills and administrations, Revolutionary War bounty land, and Virginia Land Office patents and grants.

New York Public Library
New York Public Library U.S. History, Local History and Genealogy Division Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Room 315S New York, NY 10018-2788 Telephone: 212-930-0829 E-mail: Ask a Librarian form Website: New York Public Library


 * This is one of the largest research libraries in the world, including excellent genealogical resources for West Virginia. The library has city and telephone directories, vital records indexes, local histories, genealogies, federal and state censuses, passenger lists, genealogical collections (including DAR transcripts), and church records. For maps, try the Map Division at the same address.

Santa Cruz Public Library
Santa Cruz Public Library Downtown 224 Church Street Santa Cruz, California 95060 Telephone: 831-427-7707 ext. 5794 E-mail: E-mail reference service form Website: Santa Cruz Public Library


 * Holds the Genealogical Society of Santa Cruz County's library, including the Tina Brayton Collection which is equivalent to the Draper Manuscript Collection  but larger and with a better index, and many compiled genealogies of Virginia, Kentucky, North Carolina, Tennessee, and West Virginia families.

Guidebook

 * Ellen Garrison, Archives in Appalachia: A Directory (Boone, North Carolina: Appalachian Consortium Press, 1985). ; . Includes Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, and West Virginia arranged alphabetically by state, then by the name of the repository. Each entry lists the archive, its address, phone number, inclusive dates of the collection, the records of the collection, what subjects are covered by the collection, and the size of the collection. There are two indexes: Record type, and Subject, with reference numbers corresponding to the repository.