The Family & Local Histories Project images old books and manuscripts, and digitizes the text using OCR technology.

These books and manuscripts become fully searchable by name or keyword

The entire archive of text and images is placed online where users can search, browse, and print pages.

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Browse all titles in the Family & Local Histories Archive by selecting a county:

West Virginia Counties

Genealogy and local history books covering West Virginia statewide

The following books have been imaged, and are available for viewing online:

• The German element of the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia

• The Shenandoah

• Stories of the Shenandoah

• In the picturesque Shenandoah Valley

• Art work of scenes in the Valley of Virginia, published in twelve parts

• Shenandoah Valley pioneers and their descendants : a history of Frederick County, Virginia

• Massanutten, settled by the Pennsylvania pilgrim, 1726 : the first white settlement in the Shenandoah Valley

• Memory days in which the Shenandoah Valley is seen in retrospection : with glimpses of school days and the life of Virginia people of fifty years ago