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Made up of images of the pages of fourteen West Virginia reference works published by the Genealogical Publishing Company, and accessed by a single electronic index, this Family Archive CD includes the records of approximately 200,000 early West Virginia settlers. The reference works--many of the most important books ever published on West Virginia genealogy--contain wills, land grants, marriage records, military records, family histories, and local histories. Here, for example, you'll find authoritative name lists and service records of West Virginians in the Revolution; an enumeration of the 25,000 residents of the thirteen West Virginia counties that were formed before 1800; and several volumes containing genealogies of the pioneer families of various districts of West Virginia; plus a variety of books that cover slightly out-of-the-way subject matter such as architecture, topography, church history, and railroads. The following books are included on this CD:

*West Virginia Estate Settlements
*West Virginians in the American Revolution
*West Virginia Revolutionary Ancestors
*The Soldiery of West Virginia
*Genealogies of West Virginia Families
*Genealogies of Some Early Families in Grant and Pleasant Districts, Preston County
*Roane County, West Virginia Families
*Greenbrier Pioneers and Their Homes
*Pioneers and Their Homes on Upper Kanawha
*Capon Valley: Its Pioneers and Their Descendants
*Cabell County Annals and Families
*Early Records, Hampshire County, Virginia
*Mason County, West Virginia Marriages, 1806-1915
*Marriage Records of Berkeley County, Virginia, 1781-1854

System Requirements: You must have a CD-ROM drive, and in order to read the CD you must use either the Family Archive Viewer (version 4.0 or higher), which is available as a free download at http://www.genealogical.com/content/dlfav6.html, or Family Tree Maker for Windows, version 4.0 or higher (Family Tree Maker software can be ordered from www.FamilyTreeMaker.com).

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using the Family Archive Viewer:

1. Install the Family Archive Viewer CD or download it from http://www.genealogy.com/dlfav6.html.
2. Start the Viewer if it is not already running
3. Insert the CD you wish to view into the CD-ROM drive. If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.
4. The CD should open automatically, but users of later versions of the Family Archive Viewer must click the CD/magnifying glass icon in the top toolbar (above the template in some versions) to read the CD.
5. When the screen entitled "About this Family Archive" appears, click OK where prompted.

To access information on our Family Archive CDs using Family Tree Maker:

1. Start your Family Tree Maker and open a Family File. (If the program is already running, skip to Step 2.)
2. Insert the CD in your computer's CD-ROM drive. (If you have 2 or more CD-ROM drives, the CD must be placed in the first one.)
3. From the View menu, select Family Finder, or select the Family Finder icon from the toolbar.
4. For FTM 2005, FTM 2006, or Version 16, you must go to the View menu, select Data CD, then View CD. For FTM 2008 or higher, you must download the Family Archive Viewer.

To search the CD for names, select the Search Expert button in the top right of your screen, then select "Search this archive for someone NOT from your Family File." You can also search for names by using the Index.

Note: If a window opens that contains a list of files on the CD, simply close it.