Pocahontas County, West Virginia:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Bath County, VA  to the southeast
• Greenbrier County, WV  to the southwest
• Highland County, VA  to the east
• Pendleton County, WV  to the east
• Randolph County, WV  to the north
• Webster County, WV  to the northwest

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

• Historical Sketches Of Pocahontas County  1901     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Historical Sketches of Pocahontas County, West Virginia      (Source: Genealogical Publishing Company and Clearfield Company)     ($)
• Pocahontas Co, West Virginia, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Pocahontas County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (24)

Court and Legal Records

• Livingston's Law Register, 1851  Pocahontas County Lawyers     (Source: Google Books)
• Pocahontas County Court Records Directory      (Source: Court Records Free Reference and Directory)

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

• 1850 Slave Schedules  Pocahontas County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• United States Census (Slave Schedule), 1850  Pocahontas County     (Source: FamilySearch)

Estate Records

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

History (26)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• West Virginia, Naturalization Records  1814-1991     (Source: FamilySearch)
• West Virginia, Naturalization Records, 1814-1991  Pocahontas County, West Virginia     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

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)
• Pocahontas County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Pocahontas County online history resources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• Pocahontas County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)

Land Records

• Pocahontas County Deeds and Indexes      (Source: FamilySearch)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Appalachian Forest Heritage Area 
• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: FamilySearch)
• Library Directory for Pocahontas County, West Virginia      (Source: libraries.org - A directory of libraries throughout the world)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Pocahontas County, West Virginia     (Source: Find My Past)
• Pocahontas County history sources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• PocahontasCounty Historical Museum  Marlinton, West Virginia     (Source: Facebook)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• WVPOCAHO Pocahontas County genealogy

  • WVPOCAHO Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

• WVRANDOL Discussing of surnames, places, and events in the area of Randolph County, West Virginia including Harrison County (from which it was formed in 1787) and any counties that physically touch its borders (i.e., Barbour, Grant, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Tucker, Upshur, Webster).

  • WVRANDOL Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers

• Individual County Chronologies  Pocahontas County     (Source: The Newberry Library)
• Pocahontas County Gazetteer      (Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System)
• Pocahontas County Post Offices 
• Pocahontas County Post Offices  1846     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Pocahontas County Postal Covers      ($)
• Pocahontas County, West Virginia 1911 Map      (Source: My Genealogy Hound)
• Pocohontas, Greenbrier counties  1873     (Source: David Rumsey Map Collection)

Military Records and Histories

• 1840 US Federal Census of Pensioners      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Census of Pensioners for Revolutionary or Military Services, 1841  Pocahontas County     (Source: Internet Archive)
• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Pocahontas County, West Virginia     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Pocahontas County     (Source: FamilySearch)
  • County Confederates      (Source: Internet Archive)

• World War I

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Pocahontas County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Newspaper Archive of The Pocahontas Times      (Source: SmallTownPapers)
• Pocahontas County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)
• The Pocahontas Times  Nov 10, 2005 - Apr 16, 2009     (Source: Google News Archive)
• The Pocahontas Times  1920 and 1923     (Source: Internet Archive)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Arbovale Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Buckeye Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Kimble Funeral Home  Paw Paw, Marlinton and Franklin, West Virginia
• Marlinton Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Obituary Index  Individuals born in Pocahontas County
• Obituary search includes Pocahontas Times      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• The Pocahontas Times 

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historical Postcards of Pocahontas County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Pocahontas County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Pocahontas County Courthouse 

School Records and Histories

• Marlinton School Yearbooks      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Pocahontas Yearbooks      (Source: Internet Archive)

Societies

• Allegheny Regional Family History Society 
• Pocahontas County Historical Society 
• Preserving Pocahontas  A private non-profit organization preserving historical records and artifacts relating to the history of Pocahontas County, West Virginia

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (121)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Personal property tax lists, 1822-1850  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Pocahontas County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Mines, Mining and Mineral Resources      (Source: mindat.org - the mineral and locality database)
• Patents  Pocahontas County, West Virginia     (Source: Google Patents)
• Pocahontas County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• Pocahontas Geological      (Source: Internet Archive)

Vital Records

• Pocahontas County Death Records  1916 - 1955
• Pocahontas County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Pocahontas County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

Wiki

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

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