Events

On January 15, 2015, Randy Marcum will present “Genealogy Research Strategies” at the Thursday evening lecture in the Archives and History Library of the Culture Center in Charleston. The program will begin at 6:00 p.m. and is free and open to the public.

West Virginia Archives and History is filled with exciting collections from all over the state. Marcum will take family researchers beyond the three main records-birth, death, and marriage-which shed light on major events in a person’s life but only reveal part of that life. He will suggest ways of using the myriad other collections at Archives and History to fill in the blanks of family history. This lecture is an introduction to the 2015 West Virginia Archives and History Library Thursday genealogy evening workshops that will be presented on non-lecture evenings.

Randy Marcum has lived most of his life in West Virginia; his family has lived in the Tug River Valley since the early 1800s. Tracing his family roots and associations along with their westward movement has been a lifelong passion. He is a graduate of the University of Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Ohio, and works at West Virginia Archives and History, where he is a historian. Marcum takes care of the map collection and also assists with the preservation cataloging of the Mountain State Railroad and Logging Association collections. He previously worked for the Records Management Preservation Board on the county records preservation project.

For additional information, contact the Archives and History Library at (304) 558-0230.