What the WVU History Center Holds and How to Search It
There is a room in Morgantown that holds more of West Virginia’s written memory than any other place on earth, and most family researchers have...
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...
What the WVU History Center Holds and How to Search It
There is a room in Morgantown that holds more of West Virginia’s written memory than any other place on earth, and most family researchers have...
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...
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