Welcome to Hancock County WV History and Genealogy Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists West Virginia is covered under our "Northeastern States" mailing list. Hancock County is the smallest county in the state, and the farthest north, being at the tip of the state's Northern Panhandle. It was created from Brooke County in 1848, and named for John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of Independence. Its county seat is New Cumberland. Incorporated Communities * City of Chester * City of New Cumberland * City of Weirton (most of the city) Unincorporated Communities * Chestnut Hill * Congo * Fairhaven * Kings Creek * Lawrenceville * Lennyville * Moscow * New Manchester * Newell * Sun Valley Online Data Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories/Records County Records Court Records Deaths Family Bibles County Pictures Marriages Military Newspapers Obituaries Surnames Wills/Probate Extracts  Website Updates: Feb 2010: Bio of Wm. Stewart Flats Cemetery Records; Probate Extracts Surrounding Counties * Columbiana County, Ohio (north and west) * Beaver County, Pennsylvania (east) * Washington County, Pennsylvania (southeast) * Brooke County (south) * Jefferson County, Ohio (west) Back to WV Genealogy Trails Visit Genealogy Trails © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.