Cemetery Transcriptions

The purpose of this website is to serve as a central repository for transcriptions and photographs of cemeteries in Pennsylvania. PA-Roots currently houses approximately 250,000 individual internments and are spread across a wide number of websites, DataBoards and databases. PA-Roots receives donations of transcriptions from time to time for counties that currently aren’t hosted on … Read more

About PA-Roots

 Thank you for visiting PA-Roots The mission of PA-Roots is to Bring our Past into the Future! PA-Roots is a Pennsylvania Non-Profit Corporation that was incorporated in December of 2009.  The history of PA-Roots actually goes back much further.  PA-Roots was first begun in the summer of 1998 by Alice Gayley and Nathan Zipfel.  It … Read more

Software Upgrade

17 November 2011 – We are in the process of upgrading to the latest version of the software that manages PA-Roots.  If you find any problems navigating the website, please let us know.

Butler County Created

  BUTLER COUNTY Created March 12, 1800 from part of Allegheny County and named for General Richard Butler, a military officer who was born in Ireland and came to America before 1760.. He served during the Revolutionary War as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Pennsylvania ranks and of Morgan’s Rifle Corps in 1777. In l787, … Read more