Welcome to Barbour County WV History and Genealogy Volunteers Dedicated to Free Genealogy This Site is Available for Adoption Our goal is to help you track your ancestors through time by transcribing genealogical and historical data for the free use of all researchers. We're looking for folks who share our dedication to putting data online and are interested in helping this project be as successful as it can be. If you are interested in joining Genealogy Trails, view our Volunteer Page for further information and then contact Kim. (Enough knowledge to make a basic webpage and a desire to transcribe data is required) We regret that we are unable to perform personal research for folks. All data we come across will be added to this site. We thank you for visiting and hope you'll come back again to view the updates we make to this site. If you would like to be kept informed of our state and county website updates, subscribe to any or all of our mailing lists West Virginia is covered under our "Northeastern States" mailing list. Barbour County was formed in 1843 and named for Virginia jurist, Philip Pendleton Barbour. Philippi, the county seat, was established in 1844. The Battle of Philippi (1861), also known as the "Philippi Races", was fought here on June 3, 1861. It was the first land battle of the American Civil War. Barbour County Data Online BIRTH DEATHS MARRIAGES CENSUS BIOGRAPHIES HISTORY OBITUARIES NEWSPAPER DATA MILITARY DATA WILLS CEMETERIES POSTCARDS & PIX Website Updates: Oct 2011: J. Truman Nixon Biography Aug 2011: Rightmire Family Biography; County History Jul 2011: John T. Gainer Biography May 2011: Strickler Family Biography Apr 2011: KIng, Smith, Tallman and Valentine Family biographies Mar 2011: Captain Haller's Home Guards Nov 2010: World War 1 Casualties Surrounding Counties Taylor County (north) Tucker County (east) Randolph County (southeast) Upshur County (southwest) Harrison County (west) Preston County (northeast) Back to WV Genealogy Trails Back to Genealogy Trails Copyright © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.