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WEST VIRGINIA Volunteers
The list below includes volunteers who were willing to do research in the area covered by this page at the time the original RAOGK site went down in late 2011. What has been lost lost is the contact information for those individuals.
- If you are one of the volunteers below, please contact the Wiki Admin.
- If you used one of these researchers previously, please ask them to contact the Wiki Admin so that there will be a link for them and a means for researchers to contact them.
NOTE: ... Volunteers ... if you want to, you can easily Update Your Volunteer Information yourself. Wiki editing is easy!
- However, if you don't want to edit/add something yourself, just contact the Wiki Admin and indicate what you want added/modified.
NEW/RETURNING volunteers, contact: the Wiki Admin with the following information, in the order specified:
- State or Country:
- County or province, parish, region, etc:
- Your name: (This is a "display name". If your name is Susan Jones, you could want a display name of "Suzie" .. "SueJ" ... "Susan J" ... or even "Susan Jones"
- Act of Kindness: (Describe the services you are willing to provide.)
See also:
Note: The list below reflects the volunteers appearing on the RAOGK site, as of the Way Back Machine Snapshot on 13 Jan 2010.
| County | Volunteer | Act of Kindness |
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| ALL | Art Suever | City Directories & Family Histories
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| ALL | Shelli | I can check censuses for all states. |
| All | Kathryn Hunt | Will do look ups for birth, marriage and death records not found on the WV Archive website. I will also do obit searches. Reimbursement required. Please be specific with your request including county and dates. Please be advised that I do not live close to the archives, so my trips are about once a month. |
| All | Jerry | 1887-1927 WEST VIRGINIA MINING ACCIDENTS, non-fatal (1887-1917) and fatal; can provide date, miner’s age or county of residence, and reference source. Accident report reference source for major fatal accidents for all years before 1999 if year and mine name or city is known. |
| All | Mary Youngblood | Access to Archives Room @ WV Division of Culture & History, Capitol Complex, Charleston (books, microfilm). Also can access Kanawha, Putnam & Jackson County courthouse lookups., Need specific dates and as much info as possible. |
| Berkeley | Candij | Will do public records lookups at Courthouse, lookups at genealogy section of library and take photographs of tombstones if general location is known. |
| Braxton | Marji Turner | Look ups from Wes Cochran books; Braxton Co, WV Marriages 1836-1875 and Braxton Co, WV Cemeteries, Vol I. I do not live in West Virginia |
| Fayette | Jim Berry | Gravestone pictures. Sorry, I'll only be there the first of August each year but I'll be happy to accommodate any requests at that time. |
| Grant | Gary White | Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Greenbrier | Dale McLaughlin | Will provide lookups from the following book: Cemeteries of the Anthony Creek District of Greenbrier County, WV. Book written by Greenbrier Historical Society. |
| Greenbrier | Larry Heffner | Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Hampshire | S. R. Haines | Gravestone pictures. Cemeteries in Hampshire Co. WV. |
| Hampshire | Marylou Crouch | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying., Public Records (library) lookups and copying., Gravestone pictures. willing to go to any cemetery in the county, |
| Hancock | Liane Freedman | Chester, WV/ East Liverpool, OH area ONLY. Obituaries from The Review (East Liverpool, Ohio)newspaper. Gravestone photos in the Chester/ East Liverpool area only. Reimbursement required for making copies. Will research indexes, obits, historical books, etc. that are located at the Carniege Library in East Liverpool, Ohio and at the Tri-State Genealogy Society library in Newell, WV. Will take photos of cemeteries in the Chester/East Liverpool area. |
| Hancock | Donna Sage | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying., Public Records (library) lookups and copying., Obituaries., Gravestone pictures., Reimbursement may be required. Other articles in local papers, Weirton Times and Evening Review, Will photograph all cemeteries in Hancock County. Have access to Tri County Genealogy Society in Newell that covers Ohio, PA, and WV |
| Harrison | Marian Post | Public Records lookups and copying. Court house records, some cemeteries. |
| Harrison | Karen Hucko | 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 census records, marriage records 1785-1894. |
| Kanawha | Rosalie Graham | Publication Lookup - Kanawha County,(West)Virginia Early Marriages Record 1788-1853 |
| Kanawha | Clyde "Butch" Willard | Public Records (library) lookups and copying. Will do census lookups. |
| Lewis | Debbie Ullom | Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Lincoln | Barbara J. Adkins | Videotaping Cemeteries, Still photos of tombstones and Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Mason | Genetta Coleman | Public Records (library) lookups and copying., Obituaries., Gravestone pictures., Reimbursement may be required. |
| Mercer | Anna Moore | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying., Gravestone pictures., Reimbursement may be required. I live within 10 minutes of the Mercer County Courthouse and will be happy to look up Public Records as long as there are approximate dates and or names provided. I would also be willing to take gravestone pictures for a small fee to cover fuel expense. Pictures will be provided through email attachment only. |
| Monroe | Arley Meadows | Lookups in the book "Cemeteries of Monroe County, West Virginia," published by the Monroe County Historical Society. Sorry, but I am unable to do any other research in Monroe County. |
| Ohio | Susie Koehrsen | Lookups in Marriage and Death Notices of Wheeling, Western Virginia and the Tri-State area 1818-1857; Marriage and Death Notices of Wheeling, Western Virginia and the Tri-State Area 1858-1865; Marriage and Death Notices of Wheeling, West Virginia and the Tri-State area 1866-1870. |
| Pendleton | Marji Turner | Grave Register Pendleton Co, WV 1977 & Grave Register II Pendleton Co, WV 1980 by The Pendleton Co. Historical Society, I do not live in West Virginia |
| Putnam | Mary Wysong | Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Raleigh | Dale McLaughlin | Will provide lookups from the following books: Raleigh County, West Virginia marriages 1850-1870. This book contains 500 marriages and was compiled from official Raleigh County records and was written by Pauline Haga. Note: No marriages were recorded during the Civil War. The 2nd book is records and church minutes from the New Salem Baptist Church located in the Richmond District of Raleigh County, WV. This book also contains a listing for burials in the church cemetery. The book contains official church minutes from 1878 to 1927 and has entries for church admissions and dismissals and baptisms. Book also written by Pauline Haga. |
| Raleigh | Vickie Aliff | Still photos of tombstones, Public Records lookups and copying. |
| Raleigh | Jerry | 1891-2000 MINE DEATHS; can provide date, usually miner’s age, remarks and reference source. |
| Randolph | Marji Turner | Book look up " Randolph County, WV Marriages 1787-1923" by Wes Cochran, I do not live in West Virginia |
| Ritchie | Jill S. McCall | I can do lookups in Ritchie County for the 1850, 1870, and 1880 censuses. |
| Ritchie | Marji Turner | Look Ups from the following: 1) History of Ritchie County by Minnie K. Lowther [index by Wes Cochran] 2) Ritchie Co, WV Cemeteries - through 1993 by Ritchie Co, Historical Society 3) Ritchie County Marriages 1843-1915 by Wes Cochran 4) Ritchie County Marriages 1916-1945 by Wes Cochran 5) Ritchie County Deaths 1918-1940 by Wes Cochran I do not live in West Virginia and do not have access to obits |
| Summers | Dale McLaughlin | Will provide still photographs of tombstones, public record lookups and copying and obituary lookup service. Newspapers in Summers County Library start 1901 to present. Will provide lookups in the Summers County Cemetery Book, published in 1997; and lookups in the Summers County History Book, written 1907 by James H. Miller. This book had many listings for pioneer families of Summers County. This book also has majority of Civil War soldiers from Summers County. |
| Tyler | Susie Koehrsen | Lookups in Hardesty's Biographical Atlas of Tyler County, WV. Published 1882. |
| Tyler | Julie | Lookups from resources available at the Public Library: 20+ Books of photocopied newspaper obituaries; Cemetery Inscription books; County & Family histories; Books of Births/Marriages/Deaths transcribed from courthouse records; and others. |
| Tyler | Karen Hucko | 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880 census records, marriage records 1815-1852. |
| Tyler | Jude | Cemetery Photos; some obituaries, public lookups and copying, |
| Upshur | Leon Lane Sr | cemetery photographs of local cemeteries in Upshur CO WV |
| Wetzel | Karen Hucko | 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900 census, and 1854-1893 marriage records. |
| Wetzel | Julie | Look-ups in resources available at the Public Library: 20+ Books of photocopied newspaper obituaries; Cemetery Inscription books; County & Family histories. I will also do look-ups at the Wetzel County Courthouse. |
| Wood | Jen Francisco | Public Records (courthouse) lookups and copying., Public Records (library) lookups and copying., Obituaries., Gravestone pictures. Rural cemeteries photographed subject to location and may require reimbursement |
| Monroe, Mercer, Greenbrier, Raleigh and Kanawha | Dean Land |
I can do any research needed in the counties including cemetery photos.
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