"The WVGenWeb Project"

Links to West Virginia Web Sites

WV Genealogy Links

• Mining Your History Foundation - A Statewide Genealogy and Local History Society for "Almost Heaven" West Virginia
• Allegheny Regional Family History Society - dedicated to promoting interest in and preservation of family history and genealogy throughout the Allegheny Mountain Region
• Hacker's Creek Pioneer Descendants - an organization dedicated to the history and genealogy of West Virginia concentrating on central West Virginia: Lewis, Harrison, Monongalia, Barbour, Upshur, Webster, Braxton, Gilmer, and Doddridge Counties
• West Virginia Histories Homepage - contains a listing of history books that have been published relating to West Virginia
• West Virginia Collection - a regional collection of published materials that deals with West Virginia and surrounding states, particularly Virginia, Ohio and Kentucky
• West Virginia InfoMine - West Virginia State Library Commission
• West Virginia History Database - links to Archives & History and listings of history collections
• Everton's Genealogy in WV - Sources of Genealogical Information in West Virginia
• GISP - West Virginia county map and 1990 census information
• FuneralNet - search their database; soon to include cemeteries
• The Seventh WV Cavalry - Steve Cunningham's Civil War Page
• The Tri-County Researcher- A West Virginia Genealogical Publication covering Marshall, Tyler, & Wetzel Counties
• Genealogy in Wyoming Co., WV- lots of information here for Wyoming County researchers
• Wheeling Area Genealogical Society - formed to foster genealogical and historical research in Wheeling and surrounding environs, including the Ohio Valley area.
• McClain Printing Co - West Virginia history books and more.
• List of local histories - A list of local histories for Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Marion and Monongalia counties compiled by Karen Griggs.

West Virginia Surnames in the Roots Surname List
Thanks to the Root-L group for allowing us to post their search engine

Miscellaneous WV Links - Fun Stuff

• West Virginia Online - all kinds of West Virginia links
• West Virginia Web - more West Virginia links
• The Times - West Virginia's Online News Source
• CultureScape Photo Gallery: MountainNet - photographs from West Virginia
• New River Net - guide to events & entertainment in the New River area of southern WV
• Harper's Ferry National Historical Park - the starting place for Lewis and Clark's adventures and the ending place for John Brown's fort
• CPUBCO Events Line - listing of things to do and see in WV, updated weekly
• Travel and Recreation in West Virginia - online guide to travel in WV
• MountainNet - West Virginia Internet service providers
• Collis P. Huntington Railroad Historical Society - founded in 1959 to "preserve documents and artifacts of railroad history
• WSWP - West Virginia Public Television Online
• Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine - restored underground coal mine museum
• Charleston Gazette - online newspaper
• Charleston Daily Mail - online newspaper
• Bethany College
• Concord College
• Fairmont State College
• Shepherd College
• West Virginia State College
• West Virginia University
• West Virginia University at Parkersburg
• The Best of West Virginia - online guide to travel & recreation in WV
• Covered Bridges of West Virginia - information on seventeen remaining covered bridges
• Jeff Bridge's West Virginia Pages - list of famous people from West Virginia, a timeline of West Virginia history, and origins of place names in the state...

Sites with More WV Genealogy Links

• RootsWeb's Resources in WV
• Cyndi's List of WV Resources

General Genealogical & Historical Information Sites

• Genealogy Toolbox - a terrific first stop with many links and a search engine for the site.
• The Genealogy Home Page - another good place to start.
• Journal of Online Genealogy - free e-zine which focuses on the use of online resources and techniques in genealogy and family history
• Genealogy SF - with Brian's Hot List and lots of genealogy links.
• Janyce's Root Diggin' Department - yet another terrific general reference site.
• Compuserve's Genealogy Forum - lots of links and info here too.
• Surname to Soundex Code Converter - gives the soundex code used in 1880 and later census indexes
• Census Bureau - Search Name List - search for frequency of surnames and given names from 1990 census
• US Surname Distribution - searches and charts concentrations of surname in each state
• Research Tools - CD Lookups - ask for a lookup in a registered genealogy CD and volunteer to do lookups in yours.
• Cool Sites for Genealogists - chooses a new "cool" site each month
• National Archives and Records Administration - agency responsible for overseeing the management of the records of the federal government
• The Roots-L Library - good information for beginners and links to sites and reference tools.
• Treasure Maps - a how-to guide to genealogical research
• Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet - Over 27,450 links in over 70 categories!
• American Memory Homepage - Historical Collections from the Library of Congress
• Geographic Names Information Server - search for town, county, land features in this database
• A Barrel of Genealogy Links - lots of links to genealogy sites
• Lineages, Inc. - commercial site with online searches and geographically arranged resources
• Deciphering Old Handwriting - excellent page showing ways letters were written in old documents
• Family Origins - commercial software site with free trial download site and many aides to assist in your research. One of the very best genealogy programs.
• Family Tree Maker - commercial software site with beginner's information and searches of their databases
• Weekly Online Genealogy Newsletter - announcements and research helps
• Surnames.com - surname homepages on the net
• Surname Helper - more surnames at Rootsweb!
• The American Civil War - more links from Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland.
• Civil War Rosters by State - find your ancestor on the list!

Some Helpful Reference Sites

• ZipFind - calculate distance between two codes, all codes within a radius, and population figures within a zip code
• WWWebster Dictionary
• Library of Congress
• English-Estonian Dictionary
• English-Czech Dictionary
• English-Polish Dictionary
• English-Hungarian Dictionary
• English-Russian Dictionary
• Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

If you know of other links to West Virginia Resources that would be at home on this page, let me know.