Bob Nay, Your Elk County Coordinator This Elk County Pa Genealogy Website is designed to help in your genealogy search for your ancestors
and families in Elk County Pa.
I will try to keep the resources and information as current as possible, and with your support in sharing
your information we will help all of us enjoy the discovery of our family lines. Come back often to see the
changes.
Hi, and welcome to the Elk County Pa Genealogy Website
This website is being maintained by Bob Nay. Click on my name and search my family
gedcom files which include my ancestors that settled early in Jay and Benezette
Townships- The Winslows,Ovells, Burkes, Hicks, and many more.
And last but not least--A special note of thanks and appreciation to Ellis Michaels-our neighboring
PAGenWeb Clearfield County Genealogy Coordinator- and others (Judy Banja and Joe Patterson)for their
assistance in helping me establish this genealogy website for Elk County .
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Where in Elk County is Benezette?
There's a lot of information stored in these links below. It's almost overwhelming. But I've tried to make
this info as specific to Elk County as I can. With the very generous help and support of those special few
we have been adding a lot of primary information- most of which is being housed in
the USGenWeb archives along with the Elk County
genealogy resources below. The PA and National Archives links are well worth your time also.
You will want to come back often and see how these sections specifically are growing. Thanks for sharing.
Special thanks to Iris and Sarah Caskey for giving us special permission
to transcribe their cemetery information
they have collected for their manuscript Cemeteries and Burial Plots of Elk County Pa. This was completed in
1991 and has a 1996 supplement. Also would like to thank Jim
Burke and the Mt Zion Historical Society for updating the cemeteries in Jay and Benezette Townships as of the end of
2008. We will soon have the first comprehensive Elk County cemetery list on the internet. This is what sharing is
all about. If you have updated or more accurate information please let us know.
Through the tremendous effort of Ann Hefner, the St Marys Catholic Cemetery
listing has been posted and updated through August 2009!. This large listing has also been alphabetized which
should be very helpful your search. If you have any updates or corrections please let me know.
Use the mailing list or message boards below- there's a wealth of knowledge and help there!
When searching genealogy records, remember Elk County was created on April 18, 1843 from parts of neighboring Jefferson, Clearfield and McKean Counties (check these sites and records also). To find even earlier records, also search these counties (earliest to present): Northumberland, Lycoming, Clearfield, Elk, and after 1850 in Gibson Township, Cameron Co. You might also look in Centre Co., because some Clearfield County's records are stored there. The county seat-Ridgway- was settled in 1824.
You can support our genealogy efforts by contributing any files, records, family stories;
by volunteering your time, or making suggestions. Additionally you can contribute to the Pennsylvania
genealogy project in the following links. I specifically could use volunteers to help with each
township
in developing up to date histories, cemetery records, special biographies, and
ancestor files. I will try to work on Benezette and Jay townships, but
definitely need help on the others. Please email me
if you can help out.
My one major regret in getting involved in my family histories / genealogy was that I didn't start sooner or listen better. I lost those opportunites to talk to my father, grandparents, and even a great-grand father and other relations who passed on before I got interested. So I recommend to all to not wait and even if you have a chance to encourage our young ones to learn their family stories. The USGenWeb Kidz is one resource you can take advantage of whether you are a teacher , parent, or grandparent. See also Genealogy for Kids and Genealogy Word Games. Have fun with our young ones by sharing stories you may only know- please pass it on.
I'm very interested in your comments and
suggestions to make this site useful and interesting to you.
Please submit your comments in this linked comment form.
Thank you and I hope you enjoy the site and information.
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All materials located on this website are the sole property of the webmaster and the original contributors (file donations). In developing this site I have attempted to honor all copyright provisions- if any corrections need to be made please email me. You may copy any of this information for your own personal research but please refrain from selling it commercially or reposting it online without permission from the author(s).
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