Fully searchable indexes to origins of immigrants, local affairs, marriages, and deaths from the Philadelphia Public Ledger : 1836 – 1878 (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania). The GSP indexes include names and dates of death, which can be used to find original death notices in the Public Ledger newspaper, available…
Birth and Death Records Pennsylvania counties began recording births and deaths in 1893. Birth and death records before 1893 For births 1893, church baptismal records and census records will be the main sources of information for births and parents’ names The John T. Humphrey Pennsylvania Births series includes information extracted…
Locating Pennsylvania Records To locate records, it’s important to note the date when counties were formed, parent counties, and counties formed from each county following boundary changes. Records will be held in the county as it was at the time that the event occurred. Pennsylvania County Creation Date and Parent…
By Kenneth W. Milano Star Newspaper Starts History Column, “Query in the Neighborhood” From the original Lenni village of Shackamaxon prior to the European contact in the 1630’s, to Anthony Palmer’s Kensington founded in the 1730’s, to being named Fishtown by the locals in the 1830’s, our community seems to…
The region is comprised of 10 counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, and Philadelphia. The three original counties, created by William Penn in 1682, include Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester. Some 50 years later the next county – Lancaster – was carved out of Chester County in 1728.…
Pennsylvania Mining Resources ONLINE RESOURCES Coal in Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania State University Wynning History: Exploring the history of Pennsylvania’s Coal Region King Coal: Mining Bituminous – ExplorePAHistory.com PA State Archives Record Group 45 – Records of the Mines and Minerals Industries – Registers of Mine Accidents for the Anthracite and…
When searching for records during these time periods, keep in mind the county formation dates below. The farms didn’t move – the boundaries around them did! North Central This region includes 11 counties: Centre, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean, Potter, Snyder, Tioga, and Union. Lycoming was formed in 1795 from Northumberland…
County guides for the 11 counties of North Central Pennsylvania: Centre, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean, Potter, Snyder, Tioga, and Union. Lycoming was formed in 1795 from Northumberland County, followed by Centre County in 1800 from Lycoming, Mifflin, Northumberland, and Huntingdon counties. In 1804, parts of Lycoming County were split off…
County guides for the 14 counties of Northeast Pennsylvania: Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming. HISTORY Like much of Pennsylvania, this region was inhabited originally by Indigenous peoples. The Lenapehoking lived in what is now Scranton and its environs. In the…
County guides for the eight counties of Northwest Pennsylvania: Clarion, Crawford, Erie, Forest, Jefferson, Mercer, Venango, and Warren. In March 1800, several counties, including Crawford County, were carved from parts of Allegheny County; most of the others created at that time remained “attached” to Crawford County for several years before being formally…