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[edit] Usage TipsThe information in these databases comes from original records housed in county courthouses throughout West Virginia. [edit] FamilySearch DatabaseThe FamilySearch database includes some links to images of original records and has recently been expanded to cover the years 1804-1999, but it still includes the information from the original county wide database, i.e. "West Virginia Deaths, 1853–1970". According to their description, the expanded database is a name index of West Virginia statewide and county death records. The statewide death index covers years 1917-1956 and includes all 55 West Virginia counties. The county deaths index covers years 1853-1970. [edit] Ancestry.com DatabaseThe Ancestry.com database has not been expanded. It remains a copy of the original FamilySearch database "West Virginia Deaths, 1853–1970". Ancestry.com Citation: Ancestry.com. West Virginia, Deaths Index, 1853-1973 [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations, Inc., 2011. Original data: "West Virginia Deaths, 1853–1970." Index. FamilySearch, Salt Lake City, Utah. From originals housed in county courthouses throughout West Virginia. "Death Records." |