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IMPORTANT:

Hampshire county's records from the pre 1866 period are unusable. In each book, approximately one quarter (1/4, 0.25) of each page is MISSING; in many instances what is missing is the NAME of the person who is the subject of the record. Additionally, much of the remaining page is often faded, or stained, and is illegible. While it is technically correct to say these records exist, they are unusable from microfilm and restricted in person at the Library of Virginia in Richmond.

To view a fairly typical page, (140K .jpg), you may click here

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You are invited to visit the primer on Saturation Research for ways and means of finding people in that time period.

Message Boards

PLEASE NOTE that all these resources are open to all researchers. While there are some special links on the Black genealogy page, people searching for blacks in the county are encouraged to ALSO post here.

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Family sketches from the 1897 Maxwell & Swisher

• Washington Diary

• Some Black Bible Records

• Hampshire is home to the State Schools for the Deaf and Blind.

• We celebrate Frontier Days every September

• Doing Genealogy

• Visit our History site

• We've also got Industry in the county.

• Visit The County School pages

• You might find something useful on the Library page

• The cemetery in Romney is Indian Mound. I'm working on an index to graves.

• Photos from various county cemeteries are on the cemetery page.

• More photos of other cemeteries are on what was once "http://members.citinet.net/rwayne/hampco/index.htm" were moved to www.hampshire250.org/ which now seems to lead to a porn site.

  These URLs are not working reliably for me; since they're working well for others, I am providing them (as of 3 Jul 2005) for your reference, but NOT linking to them. Try http://www.historichampshire.org/cems/ or http://www.historichampshire.org or Google for them.

• Additional WV Cemeteries may be available at the Cemetery Junction.

• Hampshire County Native Buried in Texas -- The Cemetery Historical Marker and Edward McCullough's grave marker. [Thanks to Ruth Ann Edney for these photos! She retains copyright, so please ask before you adopt one. Her e-dress is in the WVHampsh-L archives at Rootsweb.]

• West Virginia Newspapers, and specifically, the South Branch Intelligencer which was published in Romney.

• An overview of the County Pedigree and links to mother and daughter counties.

• A list of Place Names in the County, with co- ordinates.

• And a couple outline maps to go with them.

• Doing PRE 1866 Research here.

• A Disclaimer on Vital Records. (Births, Deaths, Marriages)

• Some County Wills of various periods.
• A Deed or two

• The Legalities

Census

• The 1890 Special Census of Union Veterans for the county is on-line at The WVGenWeb Census Center.
  
• The transcribed 1880 census is available on the Family Search Site.
• Indices to the 1860, 1850, 1840, 1830, 1820, 1810 census and the 1784 and 1782 tax lists for Hampshire county on on-line on the Mineral county site at https://sites.rootsweb.com/~wvminera/mineral.htm

There are some text files for Old Hampshire County available for viewing on the WVGenWeb Archives page. If you have a file you'd like to contribute to this, directions are on the page, and I would appreciate a quick e-mail.

Rootsweb also maintains a Resource Center for Hampshire County.

There is a mailing- list for questions and discussions as well.

Also, a query board for asking questions.

The Legal Chorale

USGenWeb Project WV GenWeb

This FREE page is part of the WVGenWeb under the USGenWeb Project. For other West Virginia Counties, check out the West Virginia Master Index .

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