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Goal 9: Learn about West Virginia newspapers.
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ALearn about West Virginia newspapers.
Summary
- Discover the history of West Virginia newspapers.
- Learn more about how to use West Virginia periodical and manuscripts.
- Learn about West Virginia newspapers in these articles.
FS—Wiki: West Virginia Newspapers
AC—Wiki: West_Virginia Periodicals, Newspapers, and Manuscripts
BExplore West Virginia newspapers.
Summary
- Find research clues in the Library of Congress historical newspaper collection.
- Search West Virginia online newspaper sites.
- Search for
West Virginia historical newspapers in the Library of Congress collection. - Find links to California newspapers on the Wikipedia site.
- Explore West Virginia newspaper resources on the Ancestor Hunt site.
- Explore historical newspapers on the Old Newspaper Research site.
- See additional West Virginia newspaper resources on the Linkpendium site.
- Explore additional links for West Virginia newspapers and obituaries on the LDSGenealogy site.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for newspaper records. Then use the learnings for searches for a U.S. ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
Fred McCoy is mentioned in a West Virginia newspaper article. Use the "AC: Sunday Gazette Mail, Charleston, West Virginia" QUIKLink below, with a publication date of 17 May 1964, to answer these questions:
- Where was Fred McCoy living?
- What is the oldest car he has?
- What is his oldest treasure?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "Fred" as the first name and "McCoy" as the last name, with a publication date of 17 May 1964.
- In the search results screen, read the article for Fred McCoy titled "Great-Grandfather automobile."
- He was in Blacksville, West Virginia.
- His oldest car was a 1899 Schacht.
- Fred had a covered wagon from 1765.
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West Virginia Counties
Name = FamilySearch; A = Ancestry; L = Linkpendium; G = Genealogy Inc; U = USGenWeb; T = GenealogyTrails; F = Facebook
Click here for a printable map of counties.