Ritchie County, West Virginia:
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Projects

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

Adjacent counties

• Calhoun County, WV  to the south
• Doddridge County, WV  to the east
• Gilmer County, WV  to the southeast
• Pleasants County, WV  to the north
• Tyler County, WV  to the northeast
• Wirt County, WV  to the southwest
• Wood County, WV  to the west

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

• History of Ritchie County  with biographical sketches of its pioneers and their ancestors, and with interesting reminiscences of revolutionary and Indian times     (Source: Internet Archive)
• Lockhart's Central West Virginia Genealogy 
• Ritchie Co, West Virginia, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Ritchie County GEDCOM Index      (Source: GEDCOM Index .Com)

Cemeteries

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

Census Records and Indexes (23)

Church Records

• U.S. Presbyterian Church Records, 1701-1970  includes Pennsboro, West Virginia     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Court and Legal Records

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

Enslaved people, enslavers, and slavery in general - information

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

Estate Records

• West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971      (Source: FamilySearch)
• West Virginia Wills and Probate Records, 1724-1985  includes Ritchie 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)
• Ritchie County      (Source: Histopolis Collaborative Genealogy & History)
• Ritchie County online history resources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• Ritchie County Public Records      (Source: Nationwide Environmental Title Research)

Land Records

• Ritchie County Deeds and Indexes  Viewing restrictions may apply     (Source: FamilySearch)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

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

Lookups

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

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)

• WVRITCHI Ritchie County genealogy

  • WVRITCHI Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (12)

Military Records and Histories

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

• Civil War

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

• World War I

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

Miscellaneous Data

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

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Ritchie County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Newspaper Archive of The Pennsboro News      (Source: SmallTownPapers)
• The Pennsboro News  Jan 4, 1979 - Feb 18, 2009     (Source: Google News Archive)
• Ritchie County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Obituaries and Funeral Home Records

• Cairo Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Harrisville Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)
• Pennsboro Funeral Homes      (Source: Legacy.com)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Historical Postcards of Ritchie County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• Ritchie County  Built in America     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)
• Ritchie County Courthouse 
• Ritchie County Photographs  Jan 1935-June 1944     (Source: Photogrammar)

School Records and Histories

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

Societies

• Anne Royall Chapter  Harrisville     (Source: National Society Daughters of the American Revolution)
• The Ritchie County Historical Society 
• Ritchie County Historical Society      (Source: Facebook)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (31)

Tax Lists

• Internal Revenue Assessment Lists  1862-1874     (Source: FamilySearch)
• Personal property tax lists, 1843-1850  Viewing restrictions apply     (Source: FamilySearch)

Transportation and Industry

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

Vital Records

• 1860 Mortality Schedule      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• 1870 Mortality Schedule      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Ritchie County Death Records  1917 - 1955
• Ritchie County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Ritchie County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

Wiki

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

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