Project: West Virginia

Barbour	Berkeley	Boone	Braxton	Brooke	Cabell	Calhoun	Clay
Doddridge	Fayette	Gilmer	Grant	Greenbrier	Hampshire	Hancock	Hardy
Harrison	Jackson	Jefferson	Kanawha	Lewis	Lincoln	Logan	Marion
Marshall	Mason	McDowell	Mercer	Mineral	Mingo	Monongalia	Monroe
Morgan	Nicholas	Ohio	Pendleton	Pleasants	Pocahontas	Preston	Putnam
Raleigh	Randolph	Ritchie	Roane	Summers	Taylor	Tucker	Tyler
Upshur	Wayne	Webster	Wetzel	Wirt	Wood	Wyoming

How to Join

It is not necessary that you be related to someone who lived in the state of West Virginia or live there yourself to join. Anyone with an interest is welcome! If you would like to participate, please do the following:

Are you interested in the West Virginia Project?

• Project Leaders: Sandy (Craig) Patak
• Coordinators: Cindy Lesure
• Answer our G2G welcome post to join the West Virginia project and get a badge.
• Add West_Virginia to your followed tags.
• We use G2G for communication.
• Here is the West Virginia project's Suggestion List. Working on these is a great way to contribute.

• Look at one of the West Virginia project's example profiles to see what we hope for in profiles that are part of our project. Other excellent examples from our project and others can be found in the Examples Gallery.

For a full list of participants in the United States Project, see the badge report.

Please see our list of goals and tasks below for ways you can help.

Templates

The template is {{United States|sub-project=West Virginia}} which will give you:

... ... ... is a part of West Virginia history. Join: West Virginia Project Discuss: West Virginia

This above template is for use only on profiles that are of importance to the project or need to be PPP'd and managed by the project. Please contact Cindy (Williams) Lesure or Sandy (Craig) Patak prior to adding this template.

It is not for every single person from West Virginia. The following sticker might be used in that circumstance:

West Virginia Sticker Directions

Deceased persons {{West Virginia Sticker}}

... ... ... was a West Virginian.

Living Persons {{West Virginia Sticker|living=y}}

... ... ... is a West Virginian.

For those that were born in the part of West Virginia before June 20, 1863 and died after that date in West Virginia:

{{Nonmigrating Ancestor |addinfo=Native Virginian (Born in Virginia, Now West Virginia as of June 20, 1863) |flag=US_State_Flag_Images-49.png |tooltip=Flag of Virginia }}

Native Virginian (Born in Virginia, Now West Virginia as of June 20, 1863)

West Virginia Project Member Sticker: {{Member|West Virginia}}

... ... ... is a member of the West Virginia Project.

Goals

The overall goals of the United States Project are to create and develop profiles on WikiTree for those who lived in West Virginia and the other states in the union. To meet these goals:

1. Add West Virginia-related profiles, checking for existing profiles to avoid duplication. If any duplicate profiles exist, request merges, starting with the oldest generation.
2. If profiles were loaded by GEDCOM, use WikiTree Styles and Standards to clean up residue and broken links.
3. Search out original rather than derivative documentation and add sources.
4. Write comprehensive, well-sourced biographies.
5. Make sure profiles of all family members are correct and documented.
6. Profiles need to be linked to the greater WikiTree. Try to find the connection.

List of Things To Do

1. Need space pages created and developed for West Virginia counties and linked to this page. Would you like to lead a county project?
2. If you have any West Virginia state resources that you are willing to do lookups, please add them to the West Virginia Resources Page.
3. If you live in West Virginia, please consider adding Catalog: West Virginia Research Assistance to your Wikitree profile page.

Ongoing List of Things to Do

1. Cemeteries in West Virginia need to be photographed and the categories added to profiles on WikiTree. See the West Virginia Cemeteries Project
2. Help develop the Native Americans Project with information about West Virginia state tribes.
3. Work on West Virginia's unconnected and unsourced profiles.
4. Create new profiles for people of West Virginia who are documented in a family member's profile, but might not have their own profiles yet. See Needs Profiles Created
5. Work on Suggestions for profiles from West Virginia, as reported by the Data Doctors Project.
6. Add profiles for the men who died in World War I, serving from West Virginia in the Great War project and for the Roll of Honor project.

County Projects

State Resources

• Research vital records from West Virginia here http://archive.wvculture.org/vrr/
• History of Harrison County, West Virginia from the Early Days of Northwestern Virginia to the Present. By Henry Haymond [1]

Related West Virginia Categories on WikiTree

• West Virginia Category page
• West Virginia Projects page
• West Virginia, Cemeteries
• West Virginia Colleges & Universities
• West Virginia Governors
• IWest Virginia Native American Tribes
• West Virginia Politicians
• West Virginia, Religious Congregations
• West Virginia Research Assistance

Related Projects and Pages on WikiTree

• Appalachia Project
• West Virginia Space page
• Native Americans Project
• US Governors Project
• West Virginia in the Great War
• United States in World War II
• One Place Studies in West Virginia

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