Counties Putting Records Online

Some counties are working to digitize and preserve their records and then make them available to researchers online.

Hamilton County, Ohio is one example with birth, delayed birth, corrected birth, death, marriage, estate, naturalization, guardianships and other records.

Go online to www.probatect.org, and click on Records Search, then Archive Search. The indexes are in pdf format. Search the index to get the volume and page number, and then go into the record type to find the images.

Let's hope that more counties preserve and make their records accessible in this manner!

West Virginia Put Birth, Marriage & Death Record Online

The West Virginia Archives and History Web site has posted selected West Virginia county birth, death and marriage records, and selected statewide death records in a searchable and downloadable format
at http://www.wvculture.org/vrr/

Records can be searched by name, date or county and have digital images attached to the index.

• Births records for 1853 through 1908 are available.
• State death certificates from 1917 through 1958 are available.
• County marriage and death records are included up to the last record microfilmed for that county by GSU.

An article detailing the new databases can be found at:
http://www.wvculture.org/history/vitalrecordsarticle.pdf