Collections : [West Virginia and Regional History Center]

This collection consists of material from the Centerville Presbyterian Church including histories, correspondence, scrapbooks, programs, and papers about the women's auxiliary, missionary society work, finances, and social activities.

The records of a German Reformed Church consisting of a constitution, minutes, treasury records and a list of baptisms, marriages, confirmations, and membership. Original founders of the church were pioneer German emigrants subsequently all records up to 1808 are completely in German.

One volume containing the church registers for the Church of Christ at Big Run and at Cameron, West Virginia. See inventory folder for detailed description of contents of registers.

Three minute books of the Flat Fork Baptist Church. Volume I: January 19, 1850 to April 11, 1869, begins with the organizing of the church, and contains minutes for monthly church meetings. The minutes include general business transactions, acceptance and exclusion of members, appointments of clergy, obituaries, and other similar actions. At the back of the volume are lists of members, lists of pastors, and the original deed for the church property. The lists of members include changes in names of female members due to marriage, reasons for members leaving the church, and death rates of members who remained with the church until their deaths. Volume II covers the period of May 8, 1869 to May 12, 1895 and Volume III runs from July 13, 1895 to August 1, 1948. Both of these volumes contain the same sort of material as the first: membership lists, obituaries, and minutes of meetings.

Birth, marriage, and death records, registers and indexes, deed, will, map, land, lease, and minute books. Indexes of grants, leases, and wills. Surveyor's maps, surveyor records, and survey record indexes. Table of town lots, appraisement, and sale book. Mechanic's lien records, contract records, commissioner's records petitions and records, repatriation petitions. Naturalization index and declarations of intention records. These records reflect the economic and population growth typical of WV after the Civil War. The naturalization papers reflect immigration patterns to this coal mining section of the state.

Photocopies of family bible records of Morgan County, West Virginia. Records contain dates of births, marriages, and deaths. Family names include Allemong, Ambrose, Bohrer, Breakall, Brown, Buck, Caldwell, Catlett, Combs, Cross, Custer, Dawson, Duckwall, Eppinger, Fearnow, Fredman, Fritzman, Grove, Harmon, Herriott, Hofe, Hook, Hovermale, Hunter, Huth, Lawyer, Lutman, Martin, McKee, Michael, Miller, Munson, Newbraugh, Rankin, Ruppenthal, Shade, Shipley, Shockey, Stotler, Swaim, Tyson, Waugh, Widmyer, and Wisner. These were copied from records of the Morgan County Historical and Genealogical Society. The dates of records copied range from 1816-1980. The records were compiled in 1985 by Kathern Allemong and Jessie Hunter for a Daughters of the American Revolution project. In 2015, the records were re-organized for ease of research by Nancy Edwards and Nancy Largent. The collection was originally organized in a three-ring binder; it has been re-arranged into folders with each item numbered to retain original order.

Copies of the records of births, marriages, and deaths from the Bible of the Nelson Family of Pendleton County, WV.

Includes genealogy and Civil War records collected by Roy Bird Cook of Lewis County, West Virginia. Series 1 through 5 were compiled by Marcellus W. Zimmerman. They include correspondence, church records, academic records, genealogical records, research manuscripts, and clippings regarding primarily the genealogy and history of Lewisburg and Greenbrier County, and the life and career of Confederate Brigadier General Alexander W. Reynolds. Series 6 through 8 were collected by Roy Bird Cook. They include military records and clippings regarding West Virginia units, the Confederate 31st Virginia Infantry, and other Confederate units from Virginia; there are also business and miscellaneous records, including ledgers, clippings, research notes, etc. Series 9 includes oversized material from earlier series.