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SEARCH MY WASHINGTON COUNTY PENNSYLVANIA WEBSITES
History of and Other Families (o_f) from
The City and County of Washington Pennsylvania
Enhance your genealogy research about families in Little Washington, Washington County PA
using newspaper articles, birth, death, marriage, notices, obituaries (often with cemeteries
named), probates, deeds, surname finds, family trees, family histories, reunions and other information.
Site Search or Page Search (Ctl Key+F) easily finds items of interest.
Washington County Pennsylvania History and Families
Surnames from Newspapers
If a name or names are only mentioned, please go back and
read the introduction page for explanation.
Index Page of Newspaper Articles from
Washington County Pennsylvania (PA)
which include many different surnames
The majority of newspaper articles contain numerous surnames. In the
past, newspapers used 'Community Columns' such as 'Local
Glances' to cover a whole neighborhood, in which writers noted the the comings and goings of
persons and families. "Correspondents" - a person who
lived in that section or neighborhood - collected interesting tidbits from persons living in that area, and delivered these one-or
two-sentence items to the newspaper office. These appeared on a monthly
basis, until the paper became a weekly, then a daily.
People enjoyed seeing their own name in print (usually), and it
helped sell a few more newspapers if the family could afford it.
Interestingly, for the very early newspapers especially, it is unlikely that
many citizens even knew their name was in the paper until much later, if ever. Community Items continue in today's newspapers.
Presented here are complete and incomplete articles, etc. Incomplete
items surrounded full articles on Xerox copies. Also, sometimes my
sister only noted the date and surnames, so I do not have the full article.
List of Surname Pages:
BAKER 1800-1850 | BAKER
1851-1900 | BAKER 1900-1960s
BOLTON | BOWLBY | BROOKS
| BURSON
DAGG | GAMBLE | GRABLE
| GUTTERY | HAWKINS
| HOOTMAN 1 | HOOTMAN
2
KUNTZ | LANE
| LINN | McCLURE
| MOYAR / MOYER | NEASE
| PAUL | REYNOLDS
| ROSS 1800-1850 | ROSS
1851-1900 | ROSS 1900-1950
SAYER / SAYOR | SIMPSON
| THEAKSTON | WINNET
| WISHART
**More surname pages added every few months or so.
See McDonald PA Newspapers
also.
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