Can I help you in your research?

I have these reference books.

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1. Jackson County West Virginia Past and Present 1990

Compiled by the Jackson County Historical Society.
Among other information, there are articles submitted by people on family Histories from Abels to Zirkle.

I can send text files on the following:

ABELS
ANDERSON
ARTHUR AND LUCY (BOWER) ADAMS
ISAAC M ADAMS
GEORGE ALEXANDER
GEORGE ARLIN ALEXANDER
JEFFERSON DAVIE ALEXANDER
JOE ANGUS
JOSEPH EDWARD ANGUS
WILLIE GROVER ANGUS
JOHN APLIN
ARCHER
ARMSTRONG
ASHBY
J. W. ATKINS
REV. WILLIAM A ATKINSON
BAKER
OMA THELMA (HARRISON) BAILEY
LUTHER BALIS
ANDREW BAKER
MARTIN VAN BUREN BAKER
BALDERSON
SAMUEL L BARBER
CAMDEN BARNETT
ENOS BARNETT
HOYT BARNETT
LUCRETIA BARNETT
RAY BARNETT
ROBERT BARNETT
BENNETT
JOSEPH BENNETT
BENSON
ELIZABETH (MILHOAN) BEVER
BEYMER
BLAIR - BEYMER
BIBBEE
BLAIN
GEORGE W BLAKE
JAMES BLAKE
BOARD
MILES BOARD
GEORGE BOGGESS
WILLIAM BOGGESS
GEORGE BOICE
BONAR - SEALS - CAROTHERS
NELSON E BONAR
G. HARVEY BONNETT
COLEMAN
MICHAEL COLEMAN
THOMAS COLEMAN
THOMAS HART BENTON COLEMAN
CRITES (CRITZ)
MOSES AND SUSAN DOOLITTLE
SNYDER
I am continuing to add others to my Word 97 file. All may not be listed here..

2. West Virginia Civil War Almanac by Tim McKinney

Veterans Roster of the Union (and some Confederate) soldiers from each county in West Virginia.

3. Marriages in West Virginia, during the late 1800's

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4. Casto Cousins with Allied Families by Eileen S. Vickers

Written in 1983 a good place to start if you have no idea where to go. Written before the days of internet research and therefore has errors that will hopefully be corrected in a future updated version

5. Casto Story and Collections 1985 by Ina Hunt Tuft

This collection is mostly confined to proven descendents of William Casto 1717 and his 12 children.

6. History of Monroe County West Virginia

Compiled by the Monroe County Historical Society in 1998

7. History of Summers County, West Virginia, Part one and Part two by James H Miller

First settlers, families, Pioneers, etc of Summers County.

8. The Staats Family by Harold Staats

I only have the photo copies pages for the families, Casto, Parsons, Miller, Morris, Williams, Carr or Karr, Buffington, Foster, Adam or Adams, Hughes, Wilson, Greene, Hutchinson, and Wendell families.

9. Jackson Countians in the Civil War (This is now a web page accessable from my Casto Page)

10. Images of the Civil War In West Virginia by Terry Lowry & Stan Cohen

New book, first printing July 2000. Many pictures of West Virginia troops and civil war scenes. I can look up to see if the troop your ancestor fought in is featured.

11. History of Putnam County West Virginia Volume 1 by William D. Wintz

Chronological history of the county. With early settlers, explorers, etc.

12. Greenbrier County (West) Virginia, Publick Claims

Claims were registered for people who nursed the sick and wounded, fed the troops, furnished supplies, buried the dead, rode express, and manufactured firearms. This index to the Public Claims is particularly valuable, therefore, because it contains names of patriots whose services are recorded in no other place unless they rendered military as well as non-military service.

13. Greenbrier County (W) Virginia Records, Volume V, Greenbrier County Deeds & Wills 1750-1833

Early miscellaneous deeds, 1750-52, 1754, 1769, 1783-84; Deed Books 1-5, 1780-1814; Will Book 1, 1777-1833 by Larry Shuck This book is a thorough and comprehensive listing and abstracting of data from the earliest extant deed and will records of this important central West Virginia county. A full and complete name index is provided

14. 1790 Virginia Census

On CD, This CD contains images of every page of the 1908 Federal Government publication entitled "Heads of Families at the First Census of the United States Taken in the Year 1790 - Virginia". 189 pages in all. Please specify country on which you want information.

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I would be glad to help you with your research (within limits), please head your e-mail, "Genealogy Help" and I will see what I can do for you. Please note most of my information has to do with the Casto family in Jackson County WV. But if you think I might have information in the above books about your surname, I will look.