{"id":4725,"date":"2013-09-05T09:36:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/?p=4725"},"modified":"2013-09-03T20:38:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-04T01:38:16","slug":"genealogy-by-the-states-week-35-west-virginia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/genealogy.julietarr.com\/blog\/genealogy-by-the-states-week-35-west-virginia\/","title":{"rendered":"Genealogy By the States &ndash; Week 35 &ndash; West Virginia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"West Virginia\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"West Virginia\" src=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/3f0beeda4321_11CDE\/West-Virginia.jpg\" width=\"150\" height=\"82\"><\/p>\n<p>I only have a few people in my database that are connected to West Virginia.&nbsp; And by a few, I mean I can count them on one hand.&nbsp; While I was filling in a few missing pieces on those people, I learned that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvculture.org\/history\/archivesindex.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">West Virginia Archives &amp; History<\/a> website has digitized many vital records, including marriages.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>From the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wvculture.org\/vrr\/va_select.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">Vital Research Records page<\/a>, you can choose birth, death, or marriage.&nbsp; After you choose a type, you will see on the right-hand side of the page a list of counties and year ranges for records available.&nbsp; All of the images are indexed, so conduct your search, choose from the results list, and view the image of the record.<\/p>\n<p>I managed to find the marriage record for Francis Xavier Webster and Hilda Cummings, who married in Wellsburg, Brooke, West Virginia on 28 January 1937.&nbsp; Francis is my second cousin, three times removed.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"Webster-Cummings-Marriage\" style=\"border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px; background-image: none; border-bottom: 0px; float: none; padding-top: 0px; padding-left: 0px; margin-left: auto; border-left: 0px; display: block; padding-right: 0px; margin-right: auto\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Webster-Cummings-Marriage\" src=\"http:\/\/julietarr.com\/genealogy\/blog\/images\/3f0beeda4321_11CDE\/Webster-Cummings-Marriage.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"277\"><\/p>\n<p>Neat find.&nbsp; I had no idea these records were available, and best of all, for FREE!<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiddengenealogynuggets.com\/genealogyblog\/category\/genealogy-by-the-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">Genealogy By the States<\/a><\/em><em> is a theme created by Jim Sanders over at the <\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hiddengenealogynuggets.com\/genealogyblog\/\" target=\"_blank\">Hidden Genealogy Nuggets<\/a><em><\/em><em> blog.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I only have a few people in my database that are connected to West Virginia.&nbsp; And by a few, I mean I can count them on one hand.&nbsp; 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