…bringing our past into the future
admin 
The Pennsylvania Department of Health, Vital Records has posted on-line the Birth Indices for the year 1906 and the Death Indices for the years 1906-1961. The Birth Indices includes the name, Mothers maiden name and first initial and the place of birth. The Death Indices includes the name, age, date of death and the place … Read more
PA-Roots recently received a package of documents that were rescued from an old cottage in Ocean City New Jersey that was being demolished. The documents all related to the Liberty Township School District in the late 1870’s to early 1880’s. There is plans and specifications for the building of school houses in:StonerstownCypher PlantHoover School House … Read more
A SHORT HISTORY OF HUNTINGDON COUNTY The following history, written by J Simpson Africa of Huntingdon, first appeared in Egle’s 1876 “History of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania”. It should prove of interest to our readers whose ancestors lived in that portion of Bedford County which was taken off to form Huntingdon County in 1787. The … Read more
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.
Who was he? Reflections on Memorial Day Monday May 30’th is Memorial Day. Growing up we still called it Decoration Day. For many people it’s just a long weekend, an extra day off from work with pay. We often went to visit a cemetery on that day. Memorial Day began after the Civil War with … Read more
PACLINTO-L Topic: Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Subscribing. Clicking on one of the shortcut links below should work, but if your browser doesn’t understand them, try these manual instructions: to join PACLINTO-L, send mail to PACLINTO-L-request@rootsweb.com with the single word subscribe in the message subject and body. To join PACLINTO-D, do the same thing with PACLINTO-D-request@rootsweb.com. Subscribe … Read more
SKETCH OF JERRY CHURCH THE name of Jerry Church is inseparable from the history of Clinton county and Lock Haven. It was through his efforts the county was formed and named, and to him we owe the existence of Lock Haven as the county seat. No book of this kind would be complete without a … Read more
J. MILTON FUREY. J. Milton Furey, the author and compiler of this work, was born near the village of Pleasant Gap, Centre county, Pa., September 16th, 1857. His father was a farmer, and reared his son to the same calling. His early education was received at what was called the “Horn Town” school, named after … Read more