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Home >> Search, Additional
Resources, & Tools
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Link to United
States Town/County Database -- Interactive Search. If you need help
finding what county a town is/was located in, try this Town / County Database
Search feature at RootsWeb. Link to RootsWeb
Index of All Search Engines and Databases
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Search, Additional Resources, and Tools
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This search will allow you to search the contents of all publicly available documents and pages on this site. |
Search Engines
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AltaVista.com - general internet search engine |
| • Ancestor Search - Global Genealogy Search Engines |
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Ancestry.com - Genealogy search engine and services (Large
record collection - some free, most are not. Occasionally has free-trial
period for various paid areas.) |
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Civil War Soldiers, search regiments - National Park Service
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| • Dead Fred Genealogy Photo Archive |
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DistantCousin.com - West Virginia |
| • FamilySearch.org
by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Large
free record collection). The 1880 Census info now available online! (In addition to a First or Last Name, make sure you enter Census State = West Virginia , then select County as Pocahontas) Access to their valuable Family History Library system. Also see "What is the Family History Center?". |
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GenCircles (Large
free record collection) |
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GeneaNet Genealogical Database Network |
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GenForum genealogy.org |
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Gensite genealogy.org |
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Google.com - general internet search engine |
| • Libraries in Pocahontas County, Online Catalogs - Raleigh and Parkersburg Sub Hub Libraries |
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National Archives and Records Administration - Genealogy (how-to,
resources, databases) |
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ObitCentral.com - search The Pocahontas Times Obituary
Archive |
| • National Archives and Records Administration - Access to Archival Databases |
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Pocahontas County Mailing List - RootsWeb |
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Pocahontas County Message Board - RootsWeb/Ancestry |
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ProGenealogist - Records Retrieval and Ancestry Research |
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RootsWeb/Ancestry Message Boards (all) - locations, surnames,
topics |
| • RootsWeb - World Connect (Large free record collection) |
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Social Security Death Index Interactive Search - RootsWeb (Large
free record collection) |
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USGenWeb Archives - search all |
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USGenWeb Archives - search by state |
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USGenWeb Archives - search West Virginia (Large
free record collection) |
| • Virginia Military Institute Archives, Online Rosters Database |
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WorldConnect Project Global Search - RootsWeb (Large
free record collection) |
| • WebWide Surname Locator |
Additional Resources and Tools and Aids
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• Ancestry
Corner - forms for genealogists (group sheets, ancestor charts,
census abstracts, etc.) |
| • Bureau of Land Management, General Land Office Records |
| • Census Forms for Each Census Year and more - Ancestry.com (this section of the site is FREE). With these forms you will see the format and column headings for various census years - the old originals can be difficult to read. |
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• Charts For Reference In Genealogy Research (glossary
of terms, occupations, wars, disease, etc.) |
| • Family Bibles Website |
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• How Much Is That Worth? Comparing the purchasing power
of money in the United States (or colonies) from 1665 to any other
year including the present. |
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How to order West Virginia Vital Records. How and where to order
birth, death, marriage, deed, records, etc. — including Pocahontas
Co. |
| • Occupational Info, Dictionary of Occupataional Titles |
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• RootsWeb Soundex Code Converter. The Soundex system is
a method of indexing names in the 1880, 1900, 1910, and 1920 US
Census. Soundex can also aid genealogists by identifying spelling
variations for a given surname. |
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• The Calendar Home
Page. With this calendar you can view a month or year calendar
for any year 1 to 10000 A.D. |
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• Veterans Benefits &
Services, Burial and Memorial Benefits (National Cemetery Administration)
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• Vital Records Information for the United States (contact
info for birth/death certificates) |
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VitalChek Network - service for remote ordering of vital records |
| • What Is a First Cousin, Twice Removed? genealogy.com |
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West Virginia Birth and Death Records, WVGenWeb |
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• West Virginia
Hometown News - newspapers of WV |
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What was the Exchange Rate Then? - Find the exchange rate between
the the United States dollar and the British pound, for any year
between 1791 and 1999 |