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Welcome to Kanawha County
History and Genealogy

A Part of Genealogy Trails

Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy

This WV Genealogy Trails website is hosted by Kim Torp.
Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data and placing it online for the free use of all researchers.

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Dust off your family scrapbooks!
We're looking for DATA for this site!!!

We're looking for the "raw data" folks can use to build their family trees (rather than the actual trees themselves). This includes the transcribed data from the vital records, biographies from the county histories as well as the county history information itself, transcriptions of obituaries, burial data from cemetery trompings and/or readings, the data from military pensions and other service records; enumerations from census years, any newspaper gleanings for the family members including birth announcements, marriage announcements, death notices/obits and anything in between.

To help us get the data online quickly, it's very helpful to send the data transcribed (rather than sending in a graphic).

Email Kim to Contribute your Family's Data.


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.





Bridge at Charleston, 1943

Bridge at Charleston, 1943

Kanawha County was created in 1789.  It takes its name from the Native term, Kanawha: "place of white stone". The county seat is Charleston, which is also the state capital.
Kanawha County is the most populous county in the state of West Virginia

Cities

* Charleston * Dunbar * Marmet * Montgomery (part)
* Nitro (part) * Smithers (part) * South Charleston * St. Albans

Towns
* Belle * Cedar Grove * Chesapeake * Clendenin
* East Bank * Glasgow * Handley * Pratt

Plus many unincorporated communities.


Kanawha County Online Data

County Records

School Records

Wills/Probate Records

Website Updates
Apr 2013:
death notice for Senator KENNA
Jan 2013:
Marriage announcement for ALDERSON-PUTNEY; BANISTER-WISEMAN;BIRTHISEL-HALE; BROWN-LOVELL; CABELL-BELL; CAMPBELL-BYRNE; FRY-FOLLANSBEE; GILLESPIE-ATKINSON; HAMILTON-MCCHESNEY; GILLESPIE-ATKINSON; HUMPHREYS-CUNNINGHAM; CHAMP-MONTGOMERY; BLEDSOE-PAGE; JENNINGS-PATTON; KITTINGER-WRIGHT; LAIDLEY-FONTAINE; LAIDLEY-ROOKE; MAYS-SUTTLE; MAYS-THORNHILL; NORTON-ALDERSON; NOYES-LEWIS; PAYNE-HOFFMAN; RICHARDSON-YATES; RUFFNER-MCFARLAND; SLAUGHTER-MAHOOD; TALLY-TOMPKINS; VIA-FLESHMAN; WARREN-TRUDGIAN; WICKLINE-BLAKER; YARRINGTON-RIGG; KFRIERSON-SINCLAIR; AULTZ-DOUGLAS; CARNEY-BEAN; DAWSON-RUTLEDGE; GARNETT-RICHARDSON; HITE-THOMAS; JARRETT-OWENS; JENKINS-LIM; MCMAHAN-MYERS; NEWHOUSE-ROSE; OLDER-ASBURY; PATTERSON-LEGG; ROCK-BRYAN; SMITH-DERRICK; bio for ATKINSON; obits for ATKINSON, ADAMS, ANDERSON, AKERS, BURDETT, COLEMAN, HAYNES, MARIANI, OGDEN, PARKER, SMITH, BAILEY, JOHNSON, ROCK, RUST, SKIDMORE, SUMMERS, SWIFT
THOMAS, WILLIAMS, WOODWARD; Burials in Hudson-Gillispie Cemetery and Templeton Cemetery; Misc. news story from the citizens of the Poca District;
James McCown's Diary; bios for FLYNN, GROSHORN, KAUFMANN, LAUTERBACH, MORGAN, NICHOLS, RITTER, SCHWARTZ, WEIGHT, WELCH
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