Welcome to Wood County WV History and Genealogy Presented by West Virginia Genealogy Trails 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. Wood County was formed in 1798 from the western part of Harrison County and it was named for James Wood, governor of Virginia from 1796 to 1799 Its county seat is Parkersburg Wood County Courthouse Cities and towns * North Hills * Parkersburg * Vienna * Williamstown Unincorporated Communities * Belleville * Blennerhassett * Boaz * Bonnivale * Cedar Grove * Central * Dallison * Davisville * Deerwalk * Fort Neal * Kanawha * Lubeck * Mineralwells * New England * Pettyville * Rockport * Slate * Volcano * Walker * Washington * Waverly Wood County Online Data BIRTHS DEATHS MARRIAGES CENSUS BIOGRAPHIES HISTORY OBITUARIES NEWSPAPER DATA MILITARY DATA WILLS CEMETERIES  FAMILIES OF WOOD CO. Website Updates: Jan 2010: 1840 Federal Census of Pensioners May 2009: SKIDMORE death notice Jan 2009: MOSS birth records and census records, List of Cemeteries Birth and Death Records, Biography of Jacob Beeson Blair and Arthur Inghram Boreman; Newspaper Data Surrounding Counties Pleasants County (northeast) Jackson County (south) Washington County, Ohio (north) Wirt County (southeast) Ritchie County (east) Meigs County, Ohio (southwest) Athens County, Ohio (west) Back to WV Genealogy Trails Back to Genealogy Trails Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.