Our library contains genealogical & history books dating back into the late 1600s. Our items are available to guests for $10 per hour. This includes up to 10 copies of documents, if copyright laws permit. If you don’t live in the local area or have a file or date in mind, please fill out our online Research Request form below.
Here is a list of a few items in our library:
Fifth, Sixth and Seventh Series of the Pennsylvania Archives, with indexes to each series
600 books on family names. Surname files contain over 1600 files on local families
The Reva Ashcraft and Leila Francy research records contain over 880 files on surnames related to West Virginia, Virginia and Ohio
History books on Virginia from the 1600s up until the northwestern section became West Virginia. West Virginia records commenced in 1863 when West Virginia was created
War records starting with the French-Indian Wars up to World War II
Records from various Jefferson County churches from the early 1800s to present including Quaker records
Steubenville City Directories
Many Steubenville High School yearbooks
Jefferson County naturalization records
DAR catalog books
Histories on many of the 88 counties of Ohio
Birth, marriage & death records from Jefferson County
Records of first purchasers of land in the Seven Ranges of the Northwest Territory