Kay and Maggie's World of the West Virginia Panhandle

Brooke County
West Virginia

Background created from the above 1912 Postcard
of a Sternwheeler on the Ohio River near Wellsburg, W. Va.

Kay and Maggie's Skeleton Closet
AKA Places to Seek Your Ancestors

Courthouse & Health Departments
Sylvia J. Benzo
Brooke County Courthouse
P. O. Box 272
632 Main Street
Wellsburg, WV 26070
(304) 737-3661

RECORDS AVAILABLE:
1. Land records: Deeds.
2. Vital records: Births, deaths, marriages.
3. Probate records: Letters of administration.
Brooke County Clerk
632 Main Street
Wellsburg, WV 26070
(304) 737-3661

You may request copies of records from
the County Clerk's Office. There is a
$2.00 fee for each certified document
requested, ($1.00 for a standard copy)
and you should also send along a self
addressed stamped envelope for the return
of documents to you. Birth records start
in 1853. For the most part, marriage records
and land records begin earlier. All of these
may be obtained from the county clerk.

If you are seeking information
from divorce records, please direct your
request to the Circuit Clerk.

Libraries & Genealogical Societies
Brooke County Public Library
Librarian: Mary Ann Wallace
945 Main St
Wellsburg, WV 26070-1629
(304) 737-1551 (Phone & Fax)
Alexander Campbell Archives
Bethany College, T. W. Phillips Library
Bethany, WV 26032
Archivist: R. Jeanne Cobb
Alexander Campbell Archives
Bethany College Archives
(304) 829-7898
(304) 829-7333 Fax
Hours: M-F 7:45-11, Sa 9-5, Su 1-11,
closed holidays
Summer Hours: M-F 8-4:30;
closed weekends & holidays
Brooke County Genealogical Society
P. O. Box 144
Beech Bottom, WV 26030-0144
Brooke County Historical Society
(Society is inactive at present time.)
Librarian: Delores Antigo
10th and Main Streets
1200 Pleasant Avenue
Wellsburg, WV 26070
No telephone
Hours: M-F 1-9, Sa 9-5
closed Sundays & holidays
Campbell Mansion
Heritage Resource Center
Bethany, WV 26032
(304) 829-7285
Heritage Resource Center established in 1986.
Residence of Alexander Campbell, constructed
by his father-in-law in 1793.
Follansbee Public Library
Librarian Judy Huntzinger
844 Main Street
Follansbee, WV 26070-1422
(304) 527-0860 (Phone & Fax)

Other Information

County formed from Ohio County in 1796.

Informational Links

Maggie's World of Courthouse Dust & Genealogy Fever

WVGenWeb Archives

Map modified with permission
of Ray Sterner from
http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states

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