One of the main goals for genealogists is finding birth, marriage, and death (BMD) information about their ancestors.
Over the past few decades, thanks to volunteers, librarians and archivists (as well as the largest of them all - FamilySearch), a great number of indexes to birth, marriage, and death collections have been provided for free online. These searchable indexes provide specific BMD information, and sometimes scanned images of the actual birth, marriage, and death certificates themselves. These free online collections have hundreds of millions of records in them in total.
There are a great number of online and offline collections that may include birth, marriage, and death information that are not included in the lists below. For example, newspapers, draft registration files, naturalization records, etc. have BMD info. To find out which types of other records may include BMD information, please see:
The lists below are specific birth, marriage, and death indexes and record collections that are available for free online for the state of West Virginia.
(Updated September, 2018; recently added links are in BOLD)
General U.S.
West Virginia
- Barbour County Birth List
- Barbour County Death List
- Barbour County Marriage List
- Berkeley County Births
- Berkeley County Births 1868-1871
- Berkeley County Births 1872-1875
- Berkeley County Births 1876-1877
- Berkeley County Births 1878-1880
- Berkeley County, Church Marriages, 1819-1889
- Cabell County Deaths
- Fayette County Deaths
- Greenbrier County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Harrison County Birth Indexes
- Harrison County Deaths
- Harrison County Marriages
- Harrison County Vital Records Indexes
- Jackson County Death Index
- Jackson County Marriages 1901-1930
- Jefferson County Newspaper Death Records
- Jefferson County Newspaper Marriage Records
- Kanawha County Marriages 1792-1869
- Logan County Birth Records
- Logan County Death Records
- Logan County Marriages, 1853 - 1860
- Marshall County Deaths
- Marshall County Marriages
- Marshall County Marriages 1835-1889
- Mercer County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Miscellaneous BMD Records by County
- Monongalia County Vital Records
- Ohio County Marriages
- Online Searchable Death Indexes
- Putnam County Birth, Marriage, and Death Indexes
- Raleigh County Marriages 1850-1911
- West Virginia Births and Christenings, 1853-1928
- West Virginia Births, 1853-1930
- West Virginia Deaths and Burials, 1854-1932
- West Virginia Deaths, 1804-1999
- West Virginia Marriages, 1780-1970
- West Virginia Marriages, 1854-1932
- West Virginia Mortality Schedules 1850-1880
- West Virginia Vital Records Indexes, by County
- Wirt County Marriages
- Wood County WV Deaths 1940-
Check out the links for other states on the BMD Links page.
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