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Searched and typed by Judith Florian

 

 

Washington County, PA Lookup Volunteers

 

* What is a Lookup? A Lookup is when a person volunteers to look in a book or CD that they own for a name or information.

* Who does lookups? Volunteers who own a book or CD that they think may be of some help. The volunteer may never have set foot in the location in question.

* What a lookup is not: Lookup volunteers are not offering to do General Research. 

tsk do dad Please don't ask for every possible lookup or our volunteers will run away!  (Email me if any of their contact email addresses are faulty.)

 

Contact Source Material
Please put "Washington County Lookup in the subject line of your email.
 AP Haller

Peters Creek Baptist Church 

Upper Ten Mile Presbyterian Church Cemetery,  Prosperity.
Nola Elliott Upper Ten Mile Presbyterian Church Cemetery,  Prosperity.
Charline Rossiter  Leckey, Howard L. THE TENMILE COUNTY AND ITS PIONEER FAMILIES: A GENEALOGICAL HISTORY OF THE UPPER MONONGAHELA VALLEY. PA. 
NO LONGER AVAILABLE  Pennsylvania Consolidated Census Index CD. Limit request to 1 person.  

 - SORRY no longer available!  If you have this CD, write to become a look-up volunteer!
NO LONGER AVAILABLE Genealogy of Charles Karch & Casper Kehm 

 - SORRY no longer available!  If you connect to this family, write to become a look-up volunteer!
pekaup@aol.com Lyles of Western PA (4th Edition), 1986
Mt Pleasant Graveyard and Cemetery, 1972
NO LONGER AVAILABLE "Abstracts of Washington Co., PA Willbooks 1-5"
Bob & Mary Closson and two volumes of Washington Co Pa by Beers 1893 

- SORRY no longer available!  If you have this CD, write to become a look-up volunteer!
Doreen Hall "Rural Reflections of Amwell Township", Volume III, dated 1976
Bonnie Malmat Abstracts of The Washington Reporter Vol. 1 (1808-1814)  
Abstracts of The Washington Reporter Vol. 2 (1814-1816)
Abstracts of The Washington Reporter Vol. 3 (1816-1820)
Jeanne Walsh "The Dutch Fork Settlement of Donegal Township, Washington Co, PA" by Bell, 41 pages 1978 with notes on these families: Deeds (Dietz), Fullenwider (Follenweider), Hupp, Leffler (Loffler), Miller (Muller), Philabaum, Rice (Reis),
Winter. And on Zion United Methodist Church.
Dale Patterson "Abstracts of Washington County, Pa. Willbooks 1-5" (1776-1841)
Chris Stannard Lookups in the "House of Grimmet". 
Dave Copenhaver Sr. History of Washington County by Earle L. Forrest, Vol 1-3, 1926
The Copenhaver Genealogy by Lloyd Gale Sparks, 1980
Larry Jones "Bentleysville" by Mariam A. Dartnell  

"Some of the Descendent of Peter Cleaver" by William Jessup Cleaver  

Both books have many references.  "Bentleysville" is about the founding of Bentleyville PA by a cousin, Sheshabazzar Bentley.

The Cleaver book has many of the Cleaver who founded Germantown, settling some in Centerville. 
Carole Clarke Fordyce Cemetery CDs, Greene Co CD-Roms (Cornerstone Genealogical Society)  

Each of these links will open a picture file of the cemetery names.  Make your cemetery choice(s).  Please limit each request to 2 surnames and no more than 2 cemeteries.
Patty Harris HUGHES GENEOLOGY, Ellis Hughes 1776-1850 by Mrs. Robert Hughes 1970    

History of DESCENDANTS OF JAMES PAUL of Northern Ireland, by Mattie Paul circ 1912    

DESCENDANTS OF JOSIAH FROST of Frostburg Maryland, by Charles Frost  1998   THE PAUL FAMILY HISTORY, by James R. Harris   1986

 

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources. 
Patty Harris DESCENDANTS OF JACOB HARRIS, by Sarah Junge-Urban 2004

DESCENDANTS OF JACOB HARRIS, by Carl Bowers 2004

PRIVATE OBITUARY COLLECTION OF DAISY SPROWLS HARRIS (mostly Sprowls, Henry, Cook surnames) (index is in process)

PRIVATE  OBITUARY COLLECTION BY James R. Harris , 4 volumes - Indexed (also have Wedding announcements 1970's/1980's and Class Reunion pictures from O-R from classes of 1920's thru 1940's)
 
PRIVATE OBITUARY COLLECTION OF P. HARRIS (to be indexed) mostly from 2002 - current

 

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources. 

Patty Harris INDEX TO ALLEGHENY COUNTY PA WILLS 1789-1869, by Bob/Mary Closson 1979

INDEX TO FAYETTE CO. WILLS, 1783-1900, by Bob/Mary Closson 1980

 INDEX TO GREENE COUNTY PA WILLS 1796-1900, Bob/Mary Closson 1985

 

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources. 

Patty Harris THE CLAYSVILLE WEEKLY REPORTER, partial editions from 1991-1994, complete editions from 1995- April 2006 all I need is the approximate month/year for inquiry of Surname

FAYETTE COUNTY NEWSPAPER EXTRACTS 1805-1854 by Jean Rentmeister, CGRS 1992

NEWSPAPER ABSTACTS OF ALLEGANY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES 1811-1815, Family Line Publications, F. Edward Wright    -- NOTE:  This is ALLEGANY AND WASHINGTON COUNTIES in MARYLAND.

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

<Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources.
Patty Harris WASHINGTON COUNTY PA MARRIAGES 1780-1857, by Groom and by Bride, by Bob/Mary Closson 1993

BEERS 1893 WASHINGTON COUNTY PA, VOLS 1 & 2, Closson Press

 

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources. 

Patty Harris INDEX TO WASHINGTON COUNTY PA WILLS, 1781-1900, by Bob/Mary Closson 1985

INDEX TO WESTMORELAND CO., PA WILLS 1773-1896, by Bob/Mary Closson 1986

INDEX TO SOMERSET COUNTY, PA WILLS 1795-1900, by Bob/Mary Closson 1984

 

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources. 

Patty Harris LIST OF FAMILY GENEALOGIES IN THE CARNEGIE LIBRARY OF PITTSBURGH, Oakland, PA as of 3/1/1993, by Bob/Mary Closson

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources. 

Patty Harris THE GERMAN REGIMENT OF MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA in the Continental Army 1776-1781, by Henry Retzer 1991

AMERICAN MARRIAGE RECORDS BEFORE 1699, by William Montgomery Clemens 1998

 

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST ON EACH OF THESE

Note: Please be mindful of how many sources Patty is providing and how many requests you make overall from these numerous resources. 

Clara Berry Some speific families from some Washington Co. Tax Rolls (mostly HAIR, BERRY & HIXON related) and various names from a "Poor Children" List from Strabane/North Strabane Twp.  Also, some wills & land transactions for BERRY, HAIR & HIXON related of Washington Co., PA, late 1700's and foreword & all from courthouse records.

I also have an old, fragile  book titled "Biographical and Historical Catalogue of Washington and Jefferson College, containing A General Catalogue of Jefferson College and of Washington and Jefferson College, including thus all the Alumni of The Present College, 1802-1889" - it was compiled and published in 1889. 

LIMIT 2 SURNAMES PER REQUEST FROM THE W&J COLLEGE CATALOGUE

 

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If you have a  source and can do lookups, or if someone's email bounces - 
please email me.

 

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