Welcome to the Tri-State Scrapbook. This site is dedicated to preserving important genealogy information buried within the microfilm of old newspaper clippings. Our efforts will concentrate on the tri-state area of Eastern Kentucky, Southeastern Ohio, and Southwestern West Virginia.

Here you will find obituaries, wedding/anniversary articles, and birth announcements taken from the old newspapers of this area. You are invited to submit marriage and birth announcements, for posting at this site, via e-mail. Please include the date and source of any material submitted. All obituaries may be posted automatically by the visitor on the Rootsweb Tri-State obituaries message forum listed below.

Major counties include

Mason, Cabell, Wayne, Putnam, and Lincoln of West Virginia
Boyd and Lawrence of Kentucky
Lawrence and Gallia of Ohio
May also include other counties

• Tri-State obituaries -message forum with worldwide search engine
  
• Tri-State births -newspaper birth announcements prior to 1930
  
• Tri-State marriages -old articles of marriages published in local newspapers
• Tri-State anniversaries -old articles of anniversaries published in local newspapers

Other sites of interest

• Wayne County Genealogy Society -query forum, membership information and publications for sale
• Kyowva Genealogy Society -queries, surnames, membership information and publications for sale
• Cabell County, WVGenWeb -query, obit, & bio forums, genealogy, and county resources
• Lawrence County, OhGenWeb -query forum, genealogy, and county resources
• Lawrence County, Ohio's Genealogical and Historical Website -genealogy, and county resources
• Boyd County, KyGenWeb -query forum, genealogy, and resources for sale

For more information contact:
Candie Freeman
Site Coordinator
email: Cfreeman99@aol.com

© Copyright 1998-2006 Candace Freeman

Revised: 15 Apr 2006