This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/Dz.2ADEAE/66.1 Message Board Post: We don't have many transcript/index books for Preston County in the West Virginia Archives and History Library, none for the time periods you need for information regarding Catherine Shaver Matlick. (I did check an 1850 Preston County census book, in case she was born early enough in the year to be included, but she was not listed with any of the three Shaver families enumerated.) If you want to write a research letter to us, we can search Preston County records on microfilm in hopes of finding her parents' names on her marriage record. We can also send you a copy of her county death record and/or state death certificate, which usually gives parents' names, if known by the informant. We can look for an obituary in her local area newspaper, if we have one. We have all the census for Virginia/West Virginia through 1870, and for West Virginia through 1930. We can look for her family in the 1860 census. For more information about writing to us, visit our Web site at www.wv! culture.org/history and click on "Archives."