Welcome to Nicholas 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. Nicholas County was created in 1818 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Virginia Governor Wilson Cary Nicholas. The county seat is Summersville Incorporated Cities and Towns * City of Richwood * Town of Summersville Unincorporated Communities * Belva * Bentree * Birch River * Calvin * Cambria * Canvas * Cottle * Craigsville * Drennen * Enon * Fenwick * Gilboa * Holcomb * Hookersville * Kesslers Cross Lanes * Leivasy * Lockwood * Mount Nebo * Muddelty * Nettie * New Hope * Odell Town * Persinger * Pool * Swiss * Tioga * Werth Data Online BIOGRAPHIES BIRTHS CEMETERIES CENSUS COUNTY HISTORY DEATHS  MARRIAGES MILITARY DATA NEWSPAPER DATA OBITUARIES    WILLS and PROBATES Website Updates: Jan 2012: Johnson Newton Camden Biography Dec 2011: John R. Callaghan Biography Nov 2011: County History Sep 2011: Judge Reese Blizzard Biography Jun 2011: Thomas B. Hamilton Family Biography Mar 2011: Rose McKeehen Starcher Obituary Surrounding Counties Fayette County (southwest) Clay County (northwest) Webster County (northeast) Braxton County (north) Greenbrier County (southeast) Kanawaha County (west) Back to WV Genealogy Trails Visit our National Site © Genealogy Trails All data on this website is Copyright by Genealogy Trails with full rights reserved for original submitters.