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Many birth, marriage, death and other records available online at the West Virginia Division of Culture and History

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Comment by Margaret Kerr Beckwith on November 4, 2009 at 4:54pm: Kay, I may not need it to the MyFamily sites -- I belong to the Pendleton County, etc. MyFamily website.

Comment by Kay Dilley Nichols on November 4, 2009 at 4:25pm: Margaret, Yes you need an invitation to visit any of the MyFamily sites. I will request an invitation for you. Don't know how fast they are at getting them out so give it a few days.

Comment by Margaret Kerr Beckwith on November 4, 2009 at 12:52pm: Thanks, Kay! I don't belong to either of these. Do I need an invitation to visit them?

Comment by Kay Dilley Nichols on November 4, 2009 at 12:42pm: Margaret; Here a two MyFamily sites that fit your needs, do you belong to them?
Pocahontas Co. WV Families
OUR WV ROOTS - Greenbrier to Braxton

Comment by Margaret Kerr Beckwith on November 4, 2009 at 11:43am: Most of my ancestors that were in what is now West Virginia were in Randolph, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Barbour, Greenbrier and Hardy counties.

Comment by Margaret Kerr Beckwith on November 4, 2009 at 11:41am: Thanks, Wilma -- I will look at the website but don't have any ancestors -- that I know of -- that were in the Clay County area!

Comment by Wilma Van Dee on November 4, 2009 at 11:35am: Margaret - I just sent your invitation! Good luck!

Comment by Margaret Kerr Beckwith on November 4, 2009 at 11:19am: The one WV genealogy website I use the most is the Pendleton, etc. one!

Comment by Margaret Kerr Beckwith on November 4, 2009 at 10:56am: Thanks to all! Most of the sites named I have been to! Wilma, my email address is margbeckwith@verizon.net.

Comment by Kay Dilley Nichols on November 4, 2009 at 10:50am: Absolutely the best WV site is
http://www.wvculture.org/history/archivesindex.aspx
If you have never been on this site you are missing something. This is where you find all of the birth, marriage, and death records for each county. The earliest are in the 1800s or when ever the country started to keep records about the newest are 1957. Sometimes you have to be creative in the spelling, it does accept the * as a wild card.
MyFamily has a huge number of West Virginia websites. They have the 'old' sites and the 'new' sites and they are different logins. I belong to 17 old sites and 4 new sites. There are two Tombstone sites that only have death information on them. Calhoun, Roane, Braxton and Clay County WV Tombstones and Jackson, Ritchie & Wirt County, West Virginia Tombstones The people who belong to these sites are doing a great service - they find the old family cemeteries up on a hill behind someone's house or barn and they get permission to go in and take photos and document who is buried there. They are wonderful sites.