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Projects

• Wood County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Wood County WVGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Wood WV GenExchange      (Source: GenExchange)

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

• Biographies of Wood County, WV      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Genealogies--West Virginia--Wood County      (Source: The Library of Virginia)
• Parkersburg GEDCOM Index 
• Wood County Biographies 
• Wood County Biography Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)
• Wood County GEDCOM Index 

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Wood County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Elizabeth  Slate Chapel Cemetery Inscriptions     (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)
• Ruble Cemetery  Burning Springs, West Virginia
• Wood County  West Virginia Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Wood County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Wood County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Wood County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• Wood County, West Virginia Cemeteries      (Source: Kim's Cemeteries of the United States)

Census Records and Indexes (19)

Directories

• Ohio River Directory, 1871-72  includes Parkersburgh     (Source: Google Book Search)

Ethnic

• The Jewish Community of Parkersburg, West Virginia 

History

• Early History of Wood County  County Commissioners' Association of West Virginia
• Early History of Wood County, West Virginia 
• Mid Ohio Valley Region      (Source: WVExplorer.com)
• National Register of Historic Places 
• Wood County      (Source: Wikipedia)
• Wood County History Bibliography      (Source: WorldCat)

• Churches and Other Religious Institutions

  • North End Church of Christ  Parkersburg
  • Primitive Baptist Churches  Church and Family History Assistance     (Source: The Primitive Baptist Library of Carthage)

• Histories of specific towns and townships

  • History of Leachtown, West Va.      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
  • History of Lee Creek Community      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
  • History of Locust Valley Community      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
  • A History of Mineral Wells Community      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
  • The Jewish Community of Parkersburg, West Virginia 
  • History of Washington Bottom      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)

• Tornados, Blizzards, Floods, World's Fairs and other events

  • Central City, WV Phoenix Powder Mill Explosion, Jan 1892      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Parkersburg, WV Chancellor Hotel Fire, Aug 1911      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Parkersburg, WV Flood, Mar 1907      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Parkersburg, WV Train Wreck, Aug 1889      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Parkersburg, WV Train Wreck, Jan 1902      (Source: GenDisasters)
  • Wayne, Wood and Wyoming County Tornadoes      (Source: The Tornado Project)
  • Wood County Storms      (Source: NCDC Storm Events)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of West Virginia locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• Wood County      (Source: CinnamonToast Genealogy)
• Wood County Resources      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Wood Genealogy      (Source: GenDir)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• The Blennerhassett Museum of Regional History 
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• The New Era Living Heritage Museum 
• Oil & Gas Museum  Parkersburg
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)
• Wood County history sources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• Wood County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

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

• WVWOOD-L Wood County genealogy

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

Maps and Gazetteers (13)

Military Records and Histories

• World War I

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

• World War II

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Migrations through Wood County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Southern Claims Commission  Wood County, West Virginia     (Source: Footnote)
• Wood County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Wood County Records      (Source: Find County Records)

Newspaper Records

• Wood County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Obituary Index  Individuals born in Wood County
• Parkersburg News and Sentinel 
• The Parkersburg News/Sentinel      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historical Postcards of Wood County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Parkersburg  Taking the Long View: Panoramic Photographs     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• West Virginia--Eatons.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Wood County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories

• Parkersburg School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Wood County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies

• West Virginia Repositories & Historical Societies  Wood County

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (97)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Wood County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• History of WCEF/WADC and WCEF-FM/WIBZ/WMGP, Parkersburg 
• History of WCOM/WTAP/WKYG, Parkersburg 
• History of WPAR/WIKS/WLTP, Parkersburg 
• Wood County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)

Vital Records

• Marriage Records for Wood County      (Source: A to Z Marriages)
• Selected Marriages      (Source: User-Contributed Databases at RootsWeb)
• Wood County Death Records  1917 - 1955
• Wood County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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