Calhoun County Library
Second Floor Addition
The second floor of the Calhoun County Library has an excellent collection of genealogy resources. It is also wheelchair accessible.
The Knott's Genealogy Room contains a microfiche reader, with
printer attached, microfiche of Calhoun Chronicles going back to the
late 1800's, and many reference books for family research.
Also available is the Hamilton West
Virginia Room
and a meeting room
Genealogy Information
CENSUS AVAILABLE FOR COUNTIES IN WEST
VIRGINIA
DATES
COUNTIES
1785
Harrison
1810
Wood County Hardesty Census
1820 Wood County Hardesty Census
1830
Wood County Hardesty Census
1840 Wood County Hardesty Census
1850
Barbour, Braxton, Doddridge, Gilmer, Harrison, Jackson,
Lewis, Randolph, Ritchie, Wood
1860
Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Pleasants, Ritchie, Wirt, Wood
1870 Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Mason, Pleasants, Ritchie, Roane, Wirt
1880
Braxton, Clay, Doddridge, Fayette, Gilmer, Grant, Hardy,
Harrison, Jackson, Lewis, Mineral, Nicholas, Pocahontas, Raleigh,
Ritchie, Taylor, Tucker, Upshur, Webster, Wirt, Wood, Wyoming
1900 Calhoun
MARRIAGE RECORDS FOR COUNTIES IN WEST
VIRGINIA
DATES
COUNTIES
1843-1892; 1817-1880
Barbour
1854-1927; 1856-1875
Calhoun
1845-1884
Doddridge
1845-1933
Gilmer
1785-1894
Harrison
1831-1879; 1880-1900
Jackson
1806-1850
Mason
1856-1919
Roane
1880-1925; 1801-1854; 1845-1879
Wood
Histories of West Virginia Counties:
Barbour, Calhoun, Doddridge, Gilmer, Jackson,
Nicholas, Randolph, Ritchie, Roane, and Upshur.
Special editions of counties in West
Virginia:
CALHOUN:
Calhoun cemeteries in Calhoun County,
Calhoun County in the Civil War by Robert J. Knotts, Jr.,
Calhoun County in World War II by Robert E. Stevens,
The First Law & Order Book of Calhoun County Court April-July 1856.
BARBOUR:
Footsteps of Our Fathers, Early Settler of Tacy, Barbour County by
Mary Stemple Coffman;
The Western Waters Early Settlers of Eastern Barbour County by
Violet Gadd Coonts.
GILMER:
The Civil War in Gilmer County by Rosemary Layman Gainer
JACKSON:
Grant District Cemeteries Tombstone Inscriptions & Genealogical
Early Settlers and their Contributions to Jackson County by Winfred
O'Brien
Also Available:
25 Volumes West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia
Bibliography by Jim Comstock
25 Volumes West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia Supplemental Volumes by Jim Comstock
Hardesty's WV Counties of Calhoun, Pocahontas,
Braxton, and Berkeley
DeHaas' History and Indian Wars of Western
Virginia
Pioneers and Their Homes on Upper Kanawha by
Ruth Woods Dayton
Heads of Families at the First Census of U.S.
taken in the year of 1790
17th Century Colonial Ancestors of Members of
the National Society of Colonial Dames XVIII Century 1915-1975 by
Hutton
West Virginians in the American Revolution by
Ross R. Johnston
Moccasin Rangers, Novel of Civil War by William
E. Mitchell
A History of Original Settlements on the
Delaware by Benjamin Ferris and A History of Wilmington
Virginia Tax Payers 1782-1787 by Augusta B.
Fothergill
Pennsylvania German Marriages by Donna R. Irish
New Jersey Patents and Deeds by William Nelson
(1664-1703)
A collection of family histories including a
large collection of volumes donated to the library by Robert Knotts
Jr on the Michael Stump family (45 volumes) and Knotts families (84
volumes) and 465 volumes on various family histories deriving from
the Stumps and Knotts families.