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Language
English
Abstract
A local history and genealogies of the lower New River valley compiled by Aubrey O. Smith and Judge Winton A. Riffe of Beckley.
The collection contains a section on local history covering 29 counties in Kentucky, Virginia and West Virginia. The section
on local history is comprised of church records, community histories, county court records and cemetery transcriptions. The
collection mostly consists of the genealogies of 207 family names and their sources such as personal memoirs, interviews,
obituaries, correspondence, and family records, sketches and charts. The Smith-Riffe Collection is also commonly known as
the New River Genealogy.
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Conditions Governing Access
No special access restriction applies.
Preferred Citation
[Description and date of item], [Box/folder number], Smith-Riffe Collection, History and Genealogy of Lower New River Valley,
A&M 3033, West Virginia and Regional History Center, West Virginia University Libraries, Morgantown, West Virginia.
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