Pleasants County, West Virginia:
Family History & Genealogy, Census, Birth, Marriage, Death Vital Records & More

Home > USA > West Virginia > Pleasants County

Please, add your favorite Website(s) to this page!

Projects

• Pleasants County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Pleasants County WVGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Ritchie County, WV  to the south
• Tyler County, WV  to the east
• Washington County, OH  to the northwest
• Wood County, WV  to the southwest

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

• Genealogy of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County, W. Va.      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• A History of Pleasants County, West Virginia      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Pleasants County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)

Cemeteries

• Billion Graves for Pleasants County, West Virginia      (Source: Billion Graves)
• Cemeteries of Pleasants County      (Source: Interment.net)
• Pleasants County  West Virginia Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Pleasants County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Pleasants County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)

Census Records and Indexes (17)

Court and Legal Records

• Pleasants County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

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

Estate Records

• West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971      (Source: FamilySearch)
• West Virginia Wills and Probate Records, 1724-1985  includes Pleasants County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

History (14)

Introduction and Guides

• Cyndi's List of West Virginia locality links      (Source: Cyndi's List of Genealogy Sites on the Internet)
• FamilySearch Wiki Research Guide      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Pleasants County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Pleasants County online history resources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• Pleasants County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)

Land Records

• Pleasants County Deeds and Indexes      (Source: FamilySearch)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Library Directory for Pleasants County, West Virginia      (Source: libraries.org - A directory of libraries throughout the world)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Pleasants County, West Virginia     (Source: Find My Past)
• Pleasants County history sources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• Pleasants County, West Virginia Books from Heritage Books      (Source: Heritage Books)     ($)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• WVPLEASA Pleasants County genealogy

  • WVPLEASA Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (10)

Military Records and Histories

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

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Pleasants County     (Source: FamilySearch)

• World War I

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

Miscellaneous Data

• Classic Buildings of Pleasants County      (Source: Society of Architectural Historians)
• Pleasants County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Pleasants County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Newspaper Archive of Pleasants County Leader      (Source: SmallTownPapers)
• Newspaper Archive of The St. Marys Oracle      (Source: SmallTownPapers)
• Pleasants County Leader  Feb 25, 2006 - Mar 1, 2008     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Pleasants Leader County  Feb 25, 2006 - Feb 23, 2008     (Source: Google News Archive)
• The St. Marys Oracle  Jan 3, 1952 - Apr 15, 2009     (Source: Google News Archive)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Ingram Funeral Home  Serving Pleasants County, WV and Newport, OH
• Saint Marys Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

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

School Records and Histories

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

Societies

• Ohio Valley Chapter  Saint Marys     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (56)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: FamilySearch)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Pleasants County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Pleasants County, West Virginia     (Source: Google Patents)
• Pleasants County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Pleasants County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Pleasants County, West Virginia      (Source: Historic Bridges of Michigan and Elsewhere)

Vital Records

• Pleasants County Birth Records      (Source: USGenWeb West Virginia Archives)
• Pleasants County Death Records  1917 - 1919, 1921 - 1955
• Pleasants County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Pleasants County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

Wiki

• Pleasants County, West Virginia Wiki      (Source: RootsWeb)

Please, add your favorite Website(s) to this page!

This page and its subpages contain 160 links.