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West Virginia Genealogy Databases
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West Virginia Genealogy Help Vital records, as their name suggests, are connected with central life events: birth, marriage, and death. Maintained by civil authorities, these public records are prime sources of genealogical information. These records are critically important in genealogy research, often supplying details on family members well back into the nineteenth century. There are many sources for birth, death and marriage events that are not in the West Virginia vital records office. Cemeteries, church records, newspapers, military records, immigration and naturalization records, as well as family records in letters and Bibles, are all places where evidence of vital events might be found. Once West Virginia vital records have been researched, and especially if none are available for the location and time period required, a good procedure would be to try to locate your West Virginia ancestors using West Virginia census records. Every state has a division charged with the responsibility of maintaining and dispersing public information from its vital record holdings. Each state page on this website indicates the availability of birth records, marriage records, death records, and divorce records and the agencies responsible for maintaining them. |
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West Virginia Vital Records Information (How to contact the Vital Records Department of West Virginia) Event: Birth or death Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: State office has had records since January 1917. For earlier records, write to Clerk of County Court in county where event occurred. Check or money order should be made payable to Vital Registration. Personal checks are accepted. To verify current fees, the telephone number is (304) 558-2931. Event: Marriage (State) Cost of copy: $5.00 Address: Remarks: Records since 1921. Certified copies available from 1964. Event: Marriage (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: County Clerk in county where license was issued. Event: Divorce (State) Cost of copy: See Remarks Address: Remarks: Index since 1968. Some items may be verified (fee $5.00). Certified copies are not available from State office. Event: Divorce (county) Cost of copy: Varies Address: See remarks Remarks: Clerk of Circuit Court, Chancery Side, in county where divorce was granted. |
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