Gilmer County, West Virginia:
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Projects

• Gilmer Co., WV, Genealogy and History      (Source: American Local History Network)
• Gilmer County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Gilmer County WVGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Braxton County, WV  to the southeast
• Calhoun County, WV  to the west
• Doddridge County, WV  to the north
• Lewis County, WV  to the east
• Ritchie County, WV  to the northwest

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Biographies of Gilmer County, WV      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Gilmer County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries

• Gilmer County  West Virginia Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Gilmer County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Gilmer County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Gilmer County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (24)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Gilmer County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)

Estate Records

• West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971      (Source: Family History Library)

Ethnic

• African American Coal Miner  Information Center

History (13)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• West Virginia Naturalization Records  1814-1991     (Source: Family History Library)

Introduction and Guides (10)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• Gilmer County history sources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• Gilmer County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Gilmer County, West Virginia     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

• Gilmer County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• Gilmer County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Gilmer County, WV Club      (Source: GenCircles)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• WVGILMER-L Gilmer County genealogy

  • WVGILMER-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WVGILMER-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WVGILMER-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (13)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Gilmer County, West Virginia     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1883 Pensioners on the Roll      (Source: Wayback Machine)
  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Gilmer County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Gilmer County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Gilmer County, West Virginia  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Gilmer County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Gilmer County Records      (Source: Find County Records)
• Migrations through Gilmer County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Gilmer County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• The Glenville Democrat  Mar 2, 1978 - Apr 16, 2009     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Glenville Democrat      (Source: World Vital Records - mix of free and fee)
• Historical Glenville Newspapers      (Source: Newspaper Archive)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historical Postcards of Gilmer County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Gilmer County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Gilmer County     (Source: Family History Library)

Societies

• Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants 
• West Virginia Repositories & Historical Societies  Gilmer County     (Source: Wayback Machine)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (27)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Gilmer County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Gilmer County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Gilmer County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Patents  Gilmer County, West Virginia     (Source: Google Patents)

Vital Records

• Gilmer County Birth Records  1816, 1824, 1840, 1853 - 1859, 1861 - 1929
• Gilmer County Death Records  1853 - 1854, 1856, 1858 - 1859, 1861 - 1863, 1865 - 1873, 1875 - 1876, 1878 - 1893, 1895 - 1899, 1901 - 1969
• Gilmer County Deaths  1853-1854     (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Gilmer County Marriage Records  1845 - 1847, 1849 - 1969
• Gilmer County Marriages  1863-1873     (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Gilmer County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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