Beaver County,
Pennsylvania
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Beaver County Neighbors:
Allegheny ~
Butler
~
Lawrence
~ Washington, PA
~
Hancock County, WVA
Columbiana County, OH
A Brief History of Beaver County:
Wiki
Search Beaver County
Biographies ~ Books ~ Maps ~ What's
New
History of Beaver County,
Pennsylvania Richard Jacob Fraise A Warner &
Co: Philadelphia & Chicago ~ 1888 There are three sets of
Biographies:
West Side ~
East Side ~
South Side There is no Index, but the pdf files are
searchable and in Alpha order.
Beaver County Officers 'From the above History'
Book of Biographies
Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County,
Pennsylvania. Biographical Publishing Company
George Richmond, Pres: S Harmer Neff, Sec'y: C R Arnold, Treas
Buffalo, NY - Chicago ILL ~ 1899
The index is here,
Download the book Here
Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania
Under the
Editorial Supervision of John W Jordan, LLD New York:
Lewis Historical Publishing Company ~ 1913
The Index is here. Vols: I, II, III
Read Online or Download
Genealogical & Personal History Of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
John W Jordan,
LLD ~ Volume II New York ~ Lewis Publishing Company ~ 1914
The Index is here.
Download the book here
Famous People of Pennsylvania ~
Rock Musicians of Pennsylvania
Historical Register of Places
History of the Railroad in Pennsylvania
Appleton's Cycolpedia of American
Biography: 1600-1889
Biographies from my PA Families: Henry M Hinkson ~ John B
Hinkson ~ Henry Longfellow Brinton Elijah D Crosley ~ Richard
D Crosley ~ Nancy W Page Gilliland William Jones ~ Edward J
Hadfield ~ Henry C Darlington
For King or
Country
A Bicentennial Project of the
Orange County, CA Genealogical Society
Revolutionary War Ancestors with 200
Years of Descendants
Volume I /
Volume II Each
Volumne is indexed: Published in 1975
1876 Atlas / Business Directory:
Historic
Map Works
Four Mile Church: Gleanings from a Book on it's
History
Historical Pennsylvania Maps
Another Historic Map Site
Perry Casteaneda Map Collection
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Historic County Lines
Pennsylvania Topo Maps
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'Ancestor Tracks' Plat Maps
Pennsylvania Panoramic Maps
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Civil War Maps
USGenWeb Archives Map Project -
Pennsylvania
Sanborn Maps: Library of Congress
Beaver County Communities ~ Formation, local Township data, Page
Sets:
1,
2,
3
"What's New"
Newspapers - Books on Family Search
Canadian Digital Newspapers ~
Canadian Digital Archives ~
Canadian Genealogy There is a website dedicated to
Canadian Obits from local papers.
Please use this link.
and... California Digital newspapers
This Site has a great collection of CA Newspapers,
but many of them have articles from
other States including Pennsylvania
Use this Link
Pennsylvania
Newspaper Archive: Free Digital Newspapers
This is the link for all of the
Newspaper Titles Here is a linked chart for the
Papers for Beaver County
From the FS
Catalog:
Tidbits from the Big Piney
Examiner of Sublette Co., WY
1912 > 2006 - Some Years Missing
Compiler: Anna Lee Woffinden
Each Volume is Indexed
The Booklets are full of Obituaries, Death & Funeral Notices
Accidents, and the odd news article about local Pioneers
Download individual booklets from the FS Catalog
Also from the FS Catalog:
Civil Marriages: Pennsylvania 1677 - 1950
These Record Images have a lot of valuable information
Lists, Lookups & Queries
There is a Mail List for
Pennsylvania
Use this Link to Subscribe
and post queries
If you wish to post new Queries,
please use the new Mail List:
PA 'io Groups' [Subscribe Link]
Lookups:
Archival Newspapers: Historical and Current [Obits, Vital
Records] Subscription Database Access:
Newspapers.com /
Access World News / Kansas City Star /
My Heritage / Heritage
Quest Fold3 /
Historic Map Works /
Civil War: Reports of Union Army Generals
Contact: Martha
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Vital Records ~ Cemeteries ~
Obituaries
There are Vital Records in the "Historical Image" section of
Family Search
Family Search: Historical Images
The Types of Information:
Births, Biographies, Cemetery, Church Records, Citizenship Petitions,
Court Records, Deaths & DC's, Deeds, Docket, Ct Orphan Rec's,
Grantor / Grantee Rec's, Land Records, Marriage & Marriage Licenses,
Military Discharge Rec's, Naturalizations, 'Soldier Rec's',
Tax Records, Probates, Warrants, Wills
Locations & Time Frame:
Baden, Beaver County proper : 1775 - 1969
So...
The following will help you get a handle on information that could be of value to your search for Family data.
Use the
chart linked here
for the Film #
To access the Historical Images, log into your FS Account:
Click on Search, then at the top of the page: Historical Images:
You can begin with the search, but if you get lost or cannot figure it
all out, then use the chart linked
above.
So...Then...
Backtrack to Search, Catalog, and plug in the
DGS Film number of interest
from the Chart in the 'Fiche-Film' slot.
'Beaver County' Neighbors:
Allegheny,
Butler, Lawrence & Washington Counties, PA
Hancock County, WVA & Columbiana, OH Note: There are
over 100 Films for Washington Co., PA Marriages Use the
link for Allegheny County and scroll down
Pennsylvania Civil Marriages: 1677 > 1950: Family
Search
Please use this link
Poulson's American Daily Advertiser
This publication has
Marriage and Deaths gleaned from the Newspaper: The dates range from Jan 1800 > Dec 1810
for both Marriages & Deaths.
The whole book can be downloaded from the FS Catalog: Log in to
FS and use 'Catalog' Search and "Poulson".
1791>1799,
1800>1810,
1811>1825,
1826>1830
Here are Indexes
The pages are hand written
by one person, so once you get used to the formation of the
letters the names are not too hard to read.
Death Records for the Pittsburgh Area
Pittsburgh City Deaths: 1870>1905
Here is a
FS Wiki which explains time frames and availibility of
Records The Beaver
Co Genealogical Society may be able to answer questions.
also...
The Western
Pennsylvania Genealogical Society
Cemeteries of Beaver County
F-A-G Indexes [FS] Cemetery Books:
1,
2,
3,
4
Beaver Co., Cems included in the
Archives can be found here.
St Titus Cemetery - Burial Register
1902 > 1923
Kings Creek Cemetery, Hanover Twp
LDS 893734:
Copied
in 1963 Page:
69,
70,
71,
72,
73
St Joseph's
Cemetery - Partial Survey
The hand written Pages for the
Burial Register are available:
1-10,
11-20,
21-30,
31-40,
41-50,
51-61,
Single: 48-61
Thank's Jen!
LDS Film
856808: Cemeteries Old
Transcriptions
Baden,
Concord Presbyterian,
Mt Olivet,
Mt Oliver [Ind],
P1-15 -
P16-29
John
Anderson Memorial Old Economy.
A-L,
M-Z [German Translations which include arrival in the US]
Harmony Society -Wiki
All of the above files have an
index at the end of the Transcriptions and are searchable pdf
files.
and...
'Topo
Zone'
Use Topo Maps to find Cemeteries
Obituaries
Pennsylvania
Obituary Gleans
Obituaries from
NewsBank Allegheny
~ Beaver ~ Jefferson ~ Westmoreland
1983 > 2020
/
Contact Martha for Obit [Volunteer Lookup]
California Death Index :
Born in Pennsylvania, died in San
Luis Obispo Co., CA [Possible Obits from the above database]
Contact: Martha [Volunteer Lookup]
Oakland, Alameda Co. CA, Newspaper Record Collection,
[1985 > 2011] and many more
The images are on Family Search, sign in for access.
Obituary Central
/ Pennsylvania
US
Obituaries, American His. Soc. of Germans from Russia,
1899-2012
There are a lot of Obituaries on Family Search. The DAR
has a nice collection of Resources
Here
and... Obits from Free Online
Digital Newspapers:
Chronicling America, Google Archival
Newspapers
Face Book:
PA Digital Newspaper Project
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Military ~ Crime & Punishment ~ Odds &
Ends
New Military Resources:
The
American Civil War Research Database is for researching the
individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War.
The database contains indexed, searchable information on more
than four million soldiers and thousands of battles, together
with 17,000 photographs.
I have access to the above
Subscription Database:
I will do limited lookups: Contact Martha [Volunteer Lookup]
Record of the Federal Dead
Buried From:
Libby, Nelle Isle, Danville & Camp Lawton Prisons
and at
City Point, and in the Field before Petersburg and Richmond
Published: US Christian Commission
Philadelphia:
James B Rodgers, Printers, 1865 The Book can be downloaded
from FS:
Please use this Link
War in Pennsylvania
War of 1812
~
Spanish-American War ~
War of the Revolution [Wiki]
PA Digital Archives ~ War Records
Internet Archives
Misc War Records
Fort Pitt
~
Military Forts in PA
Military Records ~ Family Search
Soldiers of the Great War, Vol 3, PA
Modern Wars
Timeline of World War I | Timeline of World War II
Korean Conflict
~
Viet Nam ~
Bay of Pigs ~
Desert Storm ~ Gulf War
Compiled Service Military Records
The Internet Archives [Archive.org] has a huge amount of filmed
records.
This link is for PA
<<<NEW>>>
Life-struggles in rebel prisons : a record of the
sufferings, escapes, adventures and starvation of the Union
prisoners, containing an appendix with the names, regiments, and
date of death of Pennsylvania soldiers who died at Andersonville
Statement of Responsibility:
by
Joseph Ferguson ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Cooper Publication: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress
Photoduplication Service, 1988 Microreproduction of originals
published: Philadelphia : J.M. Ferguson, c1865. xxiv, 206 p.
LDS Film # 08812501 Indexes: A - F: Img 117 - 120 ~ G - L:
Img 120 - 123 M - R: Img 123 - 125 ~ S - Z: Img 125 - 128
<<<NEW>>>
Genealogy Trails has some nice
Civil War Biographies: Major-General George Brinton
Mcclellan ~ Major-General George Gordon Meade
Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock ~ Major-General John W.
Geary Brigadier-General Alexander Hays ~ Major-General John
Fulton Reynolds Lieutenant John T. Greble ~ Rear-Admiral
David D. Porter ~ Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren
Genealogy Trails also has lots of other
Pennsylvania Military Data.
Please use this link for access. "Thanks to Gen
Trails ~ We appreciate You!"
Soldier's
discharge books, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 1919-1934
These files are really interesting. LDS Film 1463124
The whole roll of film is here [FS Catalog]
More from the FS Catalog:
Donation lands or military tracts granted to the officers and soldiers
of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary Army, 1780-1800
LDS Film 8248349 Read Image 6 for Explanation and Use.
Pennsylvania, Register of Military Volunteers, 1861-1865
~
Searchable Database
GAR Roster: Published:1921
Book: Grand Army of the Republic.
Department of Pennsylvania ~
FS Catalog, 30 Pages,
Can be downloaded
DAR
/ Colonial Dames: Records & Books
Colonial Dames Registers
& Records
Search the
DAR
~
The
GAR ~ The SAR
Military holdings at
the Pennsylvania Historical Society
Pennsylvania Military Cemeteries
Military Headstone Applications
Military Prison Records: Family Search
Georgia, Andersonville Prison Records, 1862-1865 |
United States American Prisoners of War During the
Korean War, 1950-1953 |
United States Korean War Repatriated Prisoners of War,
1950-1954 |
United States Records of Confederate Prisoners of War,
1861-1865 |
United States World War II Prisoners of War of the
Japanese, 1941-1945 |
United States, World War II Prisoners of War, 1941-1945 |
Crime and Punishment
There are a lot of very interesting Prison Records on both
Family Search and Ancestry Below you will find Lists of
Databases
Family Search, Catalog, Film: Prison Records |
1617966 ~ Mc Neil Island |
1906: Crime Booklet |
956170 ~ Territorial Prison at Yuma, AZ |
978902 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1851-1867 [Index] |
978903 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1851-1867,
Register |
978904 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1876-1889,
Register |
978905 ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, 1889-1897,
Register |
978906 - Vol A ~ CA State Prison, San Quentin, List of
Convicts, A - C |
978906 - Vol B |
978906 - Vol C |
978907 ~ CA State Prison, Folsom |
978907 ~ Register, 1884-1886 [Prisoner #s 11092-12354 |
More FS Jail & Correctional Records: Catalog
FS Prison Records / Film & Name Index Searches |
AL, Deaths of state convicts, 1884-1951; deaths of county convicts,
1885-1922, 1884-1951 |
MO,Court Martial Papers,
Record Group no. 133, MO State Archives,
Jefferson City, 1862-1877 |
GA, Fulton Co. Records from the Atlanta His. Ctr, 1827-1955 |
GA, Savannah City Jail Registers, 1855-1873 |
LA State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1963 |
MA Reformatory for Women (Framingham, MA) 1874-1933 |
MT, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007 |
NH, Rockingham Co, prisoners index, 1772-1840 |
Suffolk Co. (MA) sheriff's records, 1799-1930 |
WA State Penitentiary inmate registers, 1881-1961 |
More Jail Registers: Family Search Catalog
Penitentiary Records: Family Search Catalog
To Search Online Ancestry Databases Listed Below: Use either
Place of Birth or "Lived In"
Ancestry Prison Record Databases |
Alabama, U.S., Convict Records, 1886-1952 |
Arizona, U.S., State Prison Records, 1875-1929 |
California, U.S., Alcatraz Federal Penitentiary, Prisoner Index, 1934-1963 |
California, U.S., Prison and Correctional Records, 1851-1950 |
Tulare County, California, U.S., Sheriff's Office
and Jail Records, 1874-1963 |
Georgia, U.S., Andersonville Prison Records, 1862-1865 |
Georgia, U.S., Central Register of Convicts, 1817-1976 |
Georgia, U.S., U.S. Penitentiary Atlanta, Prisoner Index, 1880-1922 |
Idaho, U.S., Old Penitentiary Prison Records, 1882-1961 |
Kansas, U.S., U.S. Penitentiary Leavenworth, Name Index to Inmate Case Files, 1895-1936 |
Louisiana, U.S., State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1963 |
Montana, U.S., Prison Records, 1861-1968 |
New Hampshire, U.S., Prison Records, 1812-1968 |
New Mexico, U.S., Prison and Correctional Records, 1905-1958 |
New York, Auburn Prison Records, 1816-1942 |
New York, Great Meadow Correctional Facility Records, 1911-1933 |
New York, U.S., Clinton Prison Admission Ledgers, 1851-1866, 1926-1939 |
New York, U.S., Governor's Registers of Commitments to Prisons, 1842-1908 |
New York, U.S., Prisoners Received at Newgate State Prison, 1797-1810 |
New York, U.S., Sing Sing Prison Admission Registers, 1865-1939 |
Pennsylvania, U.S., Prison, Reformatory, and Workhouse Records, 1829-1971 |
Texas, U.S., Prison Employee Ledgers, 1861-1938 |
Washington, U.S. Penitentiary McNeil Island, Photos/Records of Prisoners Received, 1887-1939 |
Web: Chester County, Pennsylvania, U.S., Criminal and Prison Record Indexes, 1681-1911 |
And Finally...
"The ESPY Files" Executions in the US: 1608-2002
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