Welcome to Kanawha County History and Genealogy A Part of Genealogy Trails 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. 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. Kanawha County Online Data BIRTHS DEATHS MARRIAGES MILITARY DATA NEWSPAPER DATA OBITUARIES & DEATH NOTICES BIOGRAPHIES 1850 Mortality Schedule CEMETERIES HISTORY CENSUS RECORDS and TAX LISTS Updated! WILLS Surrounding Counties Roane County (north) Fayette County (east) Lincoln County (southwest) Clay County (northeast) Raleigh County (southeast) Putnam County (west) Nicholas County (east) Boone County (south) Jackson County (northwest) Visit our National Site!   Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.