Tracing West Virginia Families Across the State Lines
Your ancestors did not carry a map with the modern borders drawn on it. They followed the ridges and the rivers, and the ridges and the rivers do...
Finding Coal Camp Ancestors: Company, Camp, and Church Records
If your people worked coal in southern West Virginia, and for a couple of generations in places like McDowell, Logan, and Mingo nearly everyone did,...
West Virginia Land Grants and the Sims Index Explained
In a state settled by land grants, the land usually keeps a longer paper trail than the person standing on it. Your...
Beyond the Certificate: Deeds, Estates, and Chancery Suits
A birth or death certificate hands you a date. The rest of the courthouse hands you a life. If you have only ever pulled vital records, you have...
Working Around a Burned County With Tax Lists and Substitutes
Every West Virginia researcher eventually runs into it. You trace a family back to a county, go looking for the deed or the will that should be...
Tracing West Virginia Families Across the State Lines
Your ancestors did not carry a map with the modern borders drawn on it. They followed the ridges and the rivers, and the ridges and the rivers do...
Finding Coal Camp Ancestors: Company, Camp, and Church Records
If your people worked coal in southern West Virginia, and for a couple of generations in places like McDowell, Logan, and Mingo nearly everyone did,...
West Virginia Land Grants and the Sims Index Explained
In a state settled by land grants, the land usually keeps a longer paper trail than the person standing on it. Your...
Beyond the Certificate: Deeds, Estates, and Chancery Suits
A birth or death certificate hands you a date. The rest of the courthouse hands you a life. If you have only ever pulled vital records, you have...
Working Around a Burned County With Tax Lists and Substitutes
Every West Virginia researcher eventually runs into it. You trace a family back to a county, go looking for the deed or the will that should be...
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