West Virginia Archives: 93 Newspapers for Genealogy Research

If you are researching your ancestry from West Virginia, you will want to use GenealogyBank’s online WV newspaper archives: 93 titles to help you search your family history in the “Mountain State,” providing coverage from 1791 to Today. There are millions of articles and records in our online West Virginia newspaper archives!

Photo: the New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia
Photo: the New River Gorge Bridge near Fayetteville, West Virginia. Credit: Shawn Ullerup; Wikimedia Commons.

Dig deep into our online archives and search for articles about your ancestors from West Virginia in these newspapers. Our WV newspapers are divided into two collections, each with their own search page:

  • Newspaper Archives (complete paper with all articles, including historical obituaries, with a number of very rare single-issue newspapers – many of them are the only known issues of the paper)
  • Obituaries (including both historical and recent obituaries, if obits are specifically what you are searching for)

Search West Virginia Newspaper Archives (1791 – 1941)

Search West Virginia Obituaries (1999 – Today)

Illustration: West Virginia state flag
Illustration: West Virginia state flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Here is the complete list of West Virginia newspapers in the online archives. Each newspaper title in this list is an active link that will take you directly to that paper’s search page, where you can begin searching for your ancestors by surnames, dates, keywords and more. The WV newspaper titles are listed alphabetically by city.

City Title Years of Coverage Issues Available Collection
Beckley Register-Herald 08/28/2007 – Current Obituaries
Berkeley Springs Morgan Messenger 11/19/2003 – Current Obituaries
Bluefield Bluefield Daily Telegraph 10/31/2006 – Current Obituaries
Bluefield Bluefield evening leader 04/08/1906 – 12/31/1910 1208 Newspaper Archives
Ceredo Ceredo Crescent 10/24/1857 – 10/20/1860 12 Newspaper Archives
Ceredo Ceredo Crescent 10/24/1857 – 10/20/1860 14 Newspaper Archives
Charles Town Farmers’ Repository 04/01/1808 – 11/15/1826 661 Newspaper Archives
Charles Town Spirit of Jefferson 01/31/1845 – 09/12/1876 424 Newspaper Archives
Charles Town Virginia Free Press 07/08/1829 – 08/12/1876 91 Newspaper Archives
Charles Town Spirit of Jefferson 09/27/1844 – 12/25/1900 1892 Newspaper Archives
Charles Town Virginia free press 07/19/1832 – 09/09/1896 2041 Newspaper Archives
Charles Town Virginia free press & farmers” repository 01/06/1830 – 07/12/1832 131 Newspaper Archives
Charleston Charleston Daily Mail 10/14/2003 – 07/17/2015 Obituaries
Charleston Charleston Gazette 01/02/2002 – 07/19/2015 Obituaries
Charleston Charleston Gazette-Mail 07/20/2015 – Current Obituaries
Charleston State Journal 01/03/2010 – Current Obituaries
Charleston Advocate 06/09/1904 – 06/09/1904 1 Newspaper Archives
Charleston Kanawha Valley star 03/02/1858 – 03/19/1861 2 Newspaper Archives
Charleston Labor argus 05/24/1906 – 12/28/1911 264 Newspaper Archives
Charleston West Virginia journal 10/26/1864 – 06/02/1869 125 Newspaper Archives
Charleston Advocate 02/07/1907 – 11/14/1912 280 Newspaper Archives
Charleston Charleston advocate 07/01/1894 – 01/01/1895 2 Newspaper Archives
Charleston Temperance star 11/30/1874 – 11/30/1874 1 Newspaper Archives
Charleston Guerilla 09/29/1862 – 10/03/1862 2 Newspaper Archives
Clarksburg Clarksburg telegram 01/20/1893 – 12/26/1912 880 Newspaper Archives
Clarksburg Cooper’s Clarksburg register 11/12/1851 – 11/19/1858 356 Newspaper Archives
Clarksburg Sunday telegram 11/29/1914 – 12/31/1916 110 Newspaper Archives
Clarksburg Daily telegram 12/11/1902 – 12/30/1916 3591 Newspaper Archives
County West Virginia Record 10/29/2018 – Current Obituaries
Fairmont Times West Virginian 03/09/2007 – Current Obituaries
Fairmont Baptist Recorder 07/20/1848 – 07/20/1848 1 Newspaper Archives
Fairmont Fairmont West Virginian 04/19/1904 – 12/30/1922 3171 Newspaper Archives
Farimont West Virginian 12/09/1914 – 12/30/1922 2337 Newspaper Archives
Gauley Bridge Knapsack 09/03/1863 – 11/05/1863 6 Newspaper Archives
Gilbert Gilbert Times 11/12/2008 – 08/23/2016 Obituaries
Grantsville Calhoun chronicle 01/15/1884 – 12/27/1923 1221 Newspaper Archives
Huntington Herald-Dispatch 01/01/1999 – Current Obituaries
Huntington Socialist and labor star 05/31/1912 – 01/01/1915 82 Newspaper Archives
Keyser Mineral Daily News-Tribune 04/05/2009 – Current Obituaries
Keystone McDowell times 05/09/1913 – 11/28/1941 534 Newspaper Archives
Kingwood West Virginia argus 10/27/1877 – 12/28/1916 1719 Newspaper Archives
Lewisburg Greenbrier era 01/14/1854 – 08/19/1854 17 Newspaper Archives
Lewisburg Greenbrier independent 05/22/1860 – 12/29/1922 387 Newspaper Archives
Lewisburg Greenbrier weekly era 09/16/1854 – 05/25/1861 7 Newspaper Archives
Logan Logan Banner 07/08/2007 – Current Obituaries
Madison Coal Valley News 11/17/2006 – Current Obituaries
Martinsburg Pioneer Press 09/06/1890 – 01/16/1892 2 Newspaper Archives
Martinsburg Potomak Guardian and Berkeley Advertiser 09/03/1792 – 04/02/1800 58 Newspaper Archives
Martinsburg American union 07/04/1861 – 07/11/1861 5 Newspaper Archives
Martinsburg Pioneer Press 01/07/1911 – 09/22/1917 323 Newspaper Archives
Martinsburg American union 06/30/1855 – 03/25/1859 192 Newspaper Archives
Montgomery Montgomery Herald 09/07/2005 – Current Obituaries
Morgantown Mountain Messenger, and Baptist Recorder 08/04/1852 – 08/04/1852 1 Newspaper Archives
Morgantown Morgantown monitor 02/14/1863 – 02/13/1864 31 Newspaper Archives
Morgantown Monongalia mirror 01/03/1852 – 06/23/1855 159 Newspaper Archives
Moundsville Moundsville Reporter 08/11/1876 – 08/11/1876 1 Newspaper Archives
Oak Hill Fayette Tribune 08/31/2005 – Current Obituaries
Philippi Old flag 04/07/1869 – 12/02/1869 2 Newspaper Archives
Pineville Independent Herald 11/12/2008 – Current Obituaries
Point Pleasant Point Pleasant Register 09/28/2005 – Current Obituaries
Point Pleasant Point Pleasant register 04/07/1909 – 12/28/1910 87 Newspaper Archives
Princeton Princeton Times 10/31/2006 – Current Obituaries
Pruntytown Family visitor 01/20/1860 – 05/18/1860 9 Newspaper Archives
Ravenswood Jackson Star News 03/03/2011 – Current Obituaries
Ripley Jackson Herald 03/05/2007 – Current Obituaries
Romney South Branch intelligencer 06/24/1837 – 12/24/1896 1441 Newspaper Archives
Shepherdstown Potowmac Guardian and Berkeley Advertiser 12/27/1791 – 12/27/1791 1 Newspaper Archives
Shepherdstown Shepherdstown register 12/04/1849 – 12/21/1922 3341 Newspaper Archives
Sistersville Sistersville daily oil review 08/06/1902 – 04/29/1905 825 Newspaper Archives
Sistersville West Virginia daily oil review 07/15/1898 – 08/05/1902 53 Newspaper Archives
Sistersville Sistersville daily review 05/01/1905 – 06/30/1905 50 Newspaper Archives
Sistersville Sistersville oil review 01/12/1898 – 12/28/1898 45 Newspaper Archives
Thomas La sentinella del West Virginia 02/18/1911 – 05/11/1912 53 Newspaper Archives
Volcano Volcano lubricator 10/26/1871 – 03/19/1874 27 Newspaper Archives
Volcano West Virginia walking beam 08/13/1879 – 12/04/1880 4 Newspaper Archives
Wayne Wayne County News 02/22/2017 – Current Obituaries
Weston Democrat 12/01/1868 – 12/28/1874 307 Newspaper Archives
Weston Weston Democrat 01/04/1875 – 12/25/1880 304 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Intelligencer 01/02/1871 – 12/30/1876 1071 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Plain Truth 07/14/1828 – 07/22/1828 2 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Wheeling Register 07/01/1874 – 12/31/1897 7831 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Daily intelligencer 08/24/1852 – 09/26/1922 18126 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Weekly register 03/06/1862 – 01/27/1909 2027 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Wheeling daily register 09/08/1863 – 06/29/1878 4492 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Wheeling Register 11/07/1878 – 08/31/1897 5790 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Wheeling Sunday register 08/13/1882 – 08/29/1897 735 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Arbeiter-Freund 01/22/1876 – 01/22/1876 1 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Sunday Leader 09/10/1876 – 09/10/1876 1 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Weekly Register 09/15/1876 – 09/15/1876 1 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Wheeling Evening Standard 10/27/1876 – 10/27/1876 1 Newspaper Archives
Wheeling Wheeling Weekly Standard 08/31/1876 – 08/31/1876 1 Newspaper Archives
Williamson Williamson Daily News 01/10/2007 – Current Obituaries
Winfield Putnam Herald 09/24/2007 – Current Obituaries

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