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West Virginia Cultural Links

African-American | German | Italian | Melungeons
Native-American | Scotch-Irish | Swiss

African-American

African-American Presence in West Virginia
http://www.callwva.com/attractions/africana.cfm
This page has information and facts on African Americans presence in West Virginia.

Lost Voices: Rediscovering the Contributions of African-American Women to West Virginia
http://www.marshall.edu/orahist/index.html
Links you to sites about important African American women. It gives you facts and history of the women featured.

Martin Delany Website
http://www.libraries.wvu.edu/delany/home.htm
Gives you information, facts, and writings about or written by Martin Delany.

Palatines to America
http://www.palam.org/
This site researches all German-speaking ancestry.

The Italian Genealogy Page
http://www.italiangenealogy.com/
This page gives you information on topics such as Italian names, genealogy, and tips for researching.

The Melungeon Connection
http://www.clickandsearch.com/links/ethnic/mel.shtml
This site is to help people who are searching for their ancestry in the Cumberland Plateau of Virginia, North Carolina, West Virginia, and Tennessee.

Native-American

AAIWV Homepage
http://www.AAIWV.org
This organization is to help preserve and perpetuate the ideas, cultures, and traditions of Native Americans.

Chronicles of the Scotch-Irish Settlement in Virginia by Lyman Chalkley
http://www.rootsweb.com/~chalkley/index.htm
This has extracted readings from the original court records of Augusta County 1745-1800.

Helvetia
http://www.msys.net/rogersm/index.htm
Information about a small Swiss Village in the Allegheny Mountains.