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Registers of births, etc. [includes marriage and death]

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Scope Note: Includes vital records, such as records on birth, marriage, and death. Can include baptismal records, marriage licenses, obituaries, funeral records, etc.

Found in 86 Collections and/or Records:

First Christian Church (Connellsville) Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1376
Overview

Record of ministers, members, baptisms, deaths, meetings of the church board, reports of the various church departments, and organizational history.

Dates: 1865-1903
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Flat Fork Baptist Church, Minute Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2687
Overview Three minute books of the Flat Fork Baptist Church. Volume I: January 19, 1850 to April 11, 1869, begins with the organizing of the church, and contains minutes for monthly church meetings. The minutes include general business transactions, acceptance and exclusion of members, appointments of clergy, obituaries, and other similar actions. At the back of the volume are lists of members, lists of pastors, and the original deed for the church property. The lists of members include changes in...
Dates: 1850-1948
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Forks of Cheat Baptist Church, Photostats, Records

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2719
Scope and Contents

This collection consists of photostat copies and typescripts of original records of the Forks of Cheat Baptist Church, and consists mainly of letters of dismissal from Forks of Cheat and other Baptist churches in the area.

Dates: 1833-1895
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

G. N. Shorts, Undertaker, Funeral Register

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2975
Overview

Xerox copy of the funeral register of G. N. Shorts, a West Liberty undertaker. Dated 1893-1917.

Dates: 1893-1917
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Gladys Link Hartzell, Collector, Account Books

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2326
Overview

Account books of John Sheetz (1842-1882) with some pages used to record the words to Confederate songs; Doctor's (N.D. Pairan's) account book, 1836-1838; William Martin's account book for a general store, 1777-1783; and two ledger books used as scrapbooks, containing mainly notices of deaths and marriages.

Dates: 1777-1885
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Glen Williams and Pina Bowling Marriage Certificate

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2489
Overview

The marriage certificate of Glen Phillips Williams, Princeton, West Virginia, and Pina Opal Bowling, Princeton, West Virginia, April 27, 1929. Signed by Thos. Priddy.

Dates: 1929 April 27
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hampshire, Hardy, and Mineral Counties, Records of Marriages

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2191
Overview A six page xerox copy of a pamphlet, "Record of Marriages, Performed by Rev. William Welch of Mineral County" Mineral Co., W. Va., from 1816 to 1867. The marriages are listed for Hampshire County, 1816-1850; Hardy County, 1816-1859; Mineral County, 1865-1866 [sic] (1866-1867?); Allegheny Co., Md., 1816-1858. Eight pages (second copies of seven pages) of newspaper clippings of the column "Ancient History," clipped from the Keyser Tribune, 1913. The clippings of this column contain a list of...
Dates: 1816-1867
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Hancock County Marriages List

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 2814
Overview

Photo static copy of a list of Hancock County, (West) Virginia marriages, 1848-1853.

Dates: 1848-1853
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1015
Scope and Contents Newspaper clippings, mainly from Doddridge and Harrison county, concerning marriages, deaths, family histories, letters from World War I service men, nurses, and from former residents who had moved, or gone to other states to teach, including a series of letters from L.P. Willis from the Phillippine Islands and Japan. Mr.Willis was employed as a teacher and Head Of the Bureau of Education in Japan, and the Phillipines for twenty years. Also, included in the collection are tax and school...
Dates: 1778-1955
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center

Harrison and Doddridge Counties, Papers

 Collection
Collection Number: A&M 1018
Scope and Contents

Newspaper clippings, principally from Harrison and Doddridge county papers, concerning W. Va. Servicemen in World War I, weather and flood reports, and miscellaneous West Virginia Subjects. There are also some clippings from Parkersburg and various Ohio papers.

Dates: 1917-1950
Found in: West Virginia and Regional History Center