West Virginia Vital Records
Many web sites can help you find out more about your West Virginia ancestors. In the table of information below, you will find many WV web sites organized for you, including the type of record, the title, the web site address, the approx. number of records, the date range, whether or not it is free, and notes about the site. Come back often as we will be adding more and more genealogy web sites to help you learn more about using the Internet to find your genealogy.
Birth, Marriage, and Death Records
| Title of web site | Web site address | # of records | Date Range | Cost or Free | Notes |
| Global Tree West Virginia Births | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put WV in the birth place field | 0ver 200,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
| RootsWeb West Virginia Birth WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put West Virginia in the birth place field | 0ver 600,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb West Virginia Marriage WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put West Virginia in the marriage place field | 0ver 350,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| RootsWeb West Virginia Death WorldConnect Records | worldconnect.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/igm.cgi and put West Virginia in the death place field | 0ver 400,000 | varies | Free | WorldConnect, sponsored by RootsWeb, is an online genealogy board where people can post their genealogical information as well as their contact information to help in verification. |
| Obiruary Daily Times: West Virginia | obits.rootsweb.com
/cgi-bin/obit.cgi and put WV in the Keyword Search | 0ver 120,000 | more recent dates | Free | Another nice Rootsweb site. The problem is that most of the death records are more recent. But it’s a great start. |
| Global Tree West Virginia Deaths | www.gencircles.com
/globaltree/ and put WV in the death place field | 0ver 100,000 | varies | Free | A nice searchable site where people put up there own files in hopes to help others and/or get more information. So you would need to go to the submitter of the info to find out how accurate it is. |
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