> The link to the genealogical site is: www.wvculture.org/vrr. > > Numerous birth, death, marriage records are now available online > Recently, the West Virginia Division of Culture and History helped > thousands of family tree sleuths by putting online scanned originals of > more than 1 million West Virginia birth, death and mar­riage records. > > By logging onto www.wvculture.org/vrr, genealogists may view birth and > marriage records from Calhoun, Gilmer, Hardy, Harrison, Mineral and > Preston counties from varying years, and death records from all 55 > counties from at least 1917-54 by name, county and date. > > Records from additional counties will be added over the years. More death > records will be added each year as they become 50 years old. > > The division worked with Family Search Archive of the Genealogical Society > of Utah on the Vital Research Records project. > > > This new state database is available for free. > > > "It wasn't until 1917 that West Virginia had a law that vital statistics > had to be reported. Before that, it was voluntary." > > > > > > > For more information about the Marion County Genealogy Club, call (304) > 367-9369 or (304) 795-4527 for the Forks of Buffalo Genealogy Society.