Upshur County, West Virginia:
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Projects

• Upshur County History and Genealogy      (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Upshur County WVGenWeb      (Source: USGenWeb)

Adjacent counties

• Barbour County, WV  to the northeast
• Harrison County, WV  to the north
• Lewis County, WV  to the west
• Randolph County, WV  to the southeast
• Webster County, WV  to the south

Biographies, Oral Histories, Diaries, Memoirs, Genealogies, Correspondence

• Biographies of Upshur County, WV      (Source: U.S. Biographies Project)
• Upshur Co, West Virginia, USA      (Source: Our Family Tree)
• Upshur County Biographies 

Cemeteries

• Cemeteries of Upshur County      (Source: Interment.net)
• The Political Graveyard      (Source: The Political Graveyard)
• Upshur County  West Virginia Cemetery Transcription & Photo Project     (Source: The American History and Genealogy Project)
• Upshur County Cemeteries      (Source: ePodunk)
• Upshur County Cemeteris      (Source: I Dream of Genealogy)
• Upshur County Cemetery List      (Source: Find A Grave)
• Upshur County Cemetery Registration      (Source: The Tombstone Transcription Project)

Census Records and Indexes (22)

Estate Records

• Calendar of wills in West Virginia, no. 49  Upshur County (Buckhannon)     (Source: Internet Archive)
• West Virginia Will Books, 1756-1971      (Source: Family History Library)

Ethnic

• African American Coal Miner  Information Center

History (26)

Immigration and Naturalization Records

• West Virginia Naturalization Records  1814-1991     (Source: Family History Library)

Introduction and Guides (10)

Libraries, Museums, Archives

• Family History Library Holdings      (Source: Family History Library)
• PERiodical Source Index Search  Upshur County, West Virginia     (Source: PERiodical Source Index)
• Upshur County history sources      (Source: West Virginia Archives and History)
• Upshur County Libraries      (Source: Public Libraries Library Directory)
• USGenWeb Archives      (Source: USGenWeb)

Lookups

• Upshur County Books      (Source: Books-We-Own)

Mailing Lists and Message Boards

• GenForum Message Boards      (Source: Genealogy.com)
• RootsWeb Message Board      (Source: RootsWeb)
• Upshur County Genealogy Queries      (Source: CousinConnect.com)
• Upshur County, WV Club      (Source: GenCircles)

• WVRANDOL-L Discussing of surnames, places, and events in the area of Randolph County, West Virginia including Harrison County (from which it was formed in 1787) and any counties that physically touch its borders (i.e., Barbour, Grant, Pendleton, Pocahontas, Tucker, Upshur, Webster).

  • WVRANDOL-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WVRANDOL-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WVRANDOL-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

• WVUPSHUR-L Upshur County genealogy

  • WVUPSHUR-L Mailing List Homepage      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WVUPSHUR-L Browseable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)
  • WVUPSHUR-L Searchable Mailing List Archives      (Source: RootsWeb)

Maps and Gazetteers (13)

Military Records and Histories

• List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883  Upshur County, West Virginia     (Source: Internet Archive)

• Civil War

  • 1890 Census of Union Veterans and Widows of the Civil War  Upshur County     (Source: Family History Library)

• World War I

  • World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918  Upshur County     (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

• World War II

  • Upshur County, West Virginia  World War II Casualties, Army and Army Air Corps     (Source: AccessGenealogy)

Miscellaneous Data

• Migrations through Upshur County      (Source: MIGRATIONS.org)
• Upshur County Public Records Links      (Source: Free Public Records Directory)
• Upshur County Records      (Source: Find County Records)

Newspaper Records

• Chronicling America  Upshur County     (Source: The Library of Congress)
• Upshur County      (Source: Newspaper Abstracts)

Photographs, Postcards, Historical Images

• Digital Library of Appalachia  West Virginia Wesleyan College
• Historical Postcards of Upshur County      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)
• West Virginia--Upshur County--Buckhannan.  America from the Great Depression to World War II     (Source: American Memory from the Library of Congress)

School Records and Histories (69)

Slaves, slave owners, and slavery in general - information

• 1860 Slave Schedules      (Source: Explore Ancestry for free)     ($)

Societies

• The Descendants Of The French Creek Pioneers 
• Hackers Creek Pioneer Descendants 
• Upshur County Historical Society 
• The Upshur County Historical Society 
• West Virginia Repositories & Historical Societies  Upshur County     (Source: Wayback Machine)

Surnames Web sites, obituaries, biographies, and other material specific to a surname (46)

Transportation and Industry

• Building histories of Upshur County      (Source: Philadelphia Architects and Buildings Project)
• Extant Railroad/Railway Structures      (Source: Railroad Station Historical Society)
• Patents  Upshur County, West Virginia     (Source: Google Patents)
• Upshur County  N. W. Ayer & Son's American Newspaper Annual, 1880     (Source: HathiTrust Digital Library)
• Upshur County Bridges      (Source: Historic Bridges of the United States)
• West Virginia Geological Survey  Barbour and Upshur Counties and Western Portion of Randolph County, 1918     (Source: Google Books)

Vital Records

• Upshur County Death Records  1917 - 1955
• Upshur County Marriages  1863-1868     (Source: Genealogy Trails History Group)
• Upshur County Marriages      (Source: USGenWeb Archives Marriage Records Project)
• Upshur County Vital Records      (Source: Vital Records Information for the United States)

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