…bringing our past into the future
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
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
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 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