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. Check your attics! 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. 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, 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 Biographies Births Cemeteries Census Church Histories / Records County Records Death Records Family Bible Records County History Marriages Military Miscellaneous Data Newspaper Data Obituaries School Records Wills/Probate Records Search our Sites Website Updates Feb 2012: Bios for QUARRIER, SMITH, KNIGHT, ENGLISH, MOLLOHAN Jan 2012: Bios for PRESSLEY, MCCLINTIC, FERGUSON, OXLEY, CONLEY, COOKE, BROWN, DUNBAR, MCCOMAS Dec 2011: SIMMONS biography Oct 2011: Many new obituaries; bio for LINN; Crime news for DANE June 2011: COUCH, LOVE family bios; Early History from "History of West Virginia" 1887 Apr 2011: Obits and death notices for MATHER, MCCOWN, MORGAN, SIMMONS, SNYDER, STEPTO, TYREE, WHITE, ZIMMERMAN, COON, MCDOUGAL, MCDONALD MCGUIRE, MORGAN, NULL, WALLS Mar 2011: obits for ANDERSON, CARTER, CUSTER, BIBBY, CONNELL, COX, HARROW, HAODGES, HONNAKER, JOHNSTON, MULLINS, STOCKTON, WORKMAN, DAVIDSON, SETTLE, CUNNINGHAM, LYNN, FRANKLIN, BEAN, JOHNSON, BOBBITT, BRAWLEY; Early Marriage Records; HICKS/HIX Marriages; Many new marriage announcements; Burials in Cline and Jackson Cemeteries Feb 2011: List of Cemeteries; Burials in Hall Cemetery; Early Settlements; History of 1st Presbyterian Church of South Charleston, Burials in East Bank|MCConihay|Pryor Cemetery; burials in Burgess Family Cemetery; Burials in Boyd Cemetery; 1853 Birth Records; Burials in Withrow Young and Vickers Cemeteries; Bible Records for YOUNG family Nov 2010: World War 1 Casualties Aug 2010: Death notices for WILLCOX, WILLIAMS, ROBERTSON, BREAM, AIKEN, Crime news for FARIS, bio for HELM, FRY May 2010: Explosion news item Feb 2010: 1840 Census of Pensioners Nov 2009: Tax Lists for 1792, 1793, 1796, 1801 Apr 2009: LOWRIE obit Aug 2008: BOWDEN death record 14 Apr 2008: KENNA bio; Obituaries and Death Notices; 1930 Census - Kanawha Co Infirmary; Biography of Samuel B. Avis 1850 Mortality Schedule 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.