Research Statement

The genealogy database has been compiled from books, newspapers, genealogy files,   interviews and other websites. The research by the many people involved is sincerely appreciated.

Listed below are the numerous sources of the data in this database.

  • A Genealogy of the Shobe, Kirkpatrick and Dilling Families
  • Baltzert Getz, German Immigrant
    James E. Getz, 2001 Sheridan Books, Fredericksburg, Virginia
  • Family Bibles
  • Feaster Genealogy, 1708-1981
    Glen E. Feaster and Jennie C. Feaster, 1982
  • Genealogies of some of the Teter, Wimer, Nelson and Shreve Families
    Benjamin Franklin Teeter, 1960  Berlin Publishing Company
  • Genealogical Records of the Seitz/Sites Family
    John V. Beck and Suzanne Sites Gibson, 1984
  • Genealogies of the Kimble and Alt Families
  • Grant County Census, 1900
  • Grant County Our Heritage
  • Grant County Press
    Petersburg, West Virginia
  • Grant, Hardy, Pendleton, Mineral,  County Birth Records
    County Court House
  • Grant, Hardy, Pendleton, Mineral, Hampshire, County Marriage Records
    County Court House
  • Grant, Hardy, Pendleton, Mineral County Death Records
    County Court House
  • Grave Markers
  • Hammerstadt - Hamstead Descendants
    Norma Hamstead Obier, 2003 Masthof Press, Morgantown, Pennsylvania
  • Harmon - Harman Genealogy and Biography
  • Henckel Genealogy, 1964
  • History of Grant and Hardy Counties, West Virginia
    E. L. Judy, 1951 Charleston Printing Company
  • History of Pendleton County, West Virginia
    Oren F. Morton, 1980 Regional Publishing Company, Baltimore
  • Kessels of Hardy County, West Virginia and Related Evans Families
  • Morgan County, West Virginia and Its People
    Morgan County Historical and Genealogical Society
  • North Mill Creek Church Records
  • Pendleton County West Virginia Past and Present
  • Potomac Pioneers
  • Rohrbaugh Genealogy, 1970
  • Shanholtzer History and Allied Family Roots
  • Starr Family History
  • Terrie Smith Pendleton County
  • The Muntzings and Their Related Families, Five Centuries of Ancestors
  • The Joshua Day Family
  • Through Three Centuries With A Dawson Family
    L. O. Dawson, 1974
  • West Virginia Families Website