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Hi and welcome to the Somerset County Pennsylvania Genealogy Project — a proud member of the PA-Roots family of websites.
Your County Team Associate is Nathan Zipfel and I’m really glad you stopped by and I hope that you find this website useful for your genealogical research. Â A Â huge thanks to Nan who originally develped the resources for Somerset County.
I’ll be adding to and updating this website as new material is made available, so please be sure to stop by often. If you’ve got data that you’d be willing to contribute, please contact me. I’m always in the need of help in getting data on-line. If you’d be interested in helping, please contact me.
The links below will take you to the various PA-Roots DataBoards and other resources for Somerset County. At last check there are over 19,900 individual data records posted.
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Nathan
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All people listed in the abstract were born in Pa., unless otherwise noted. “School” indicates the person had attended school within the past year. “R.E.” stands for real estate. JACOB CRISSEY SR, aged 65, farmer, $1,000 R.E., can not read and write. Hanah, aged 47, can not read and write; Eliza. aged 26, can not … Read more
All people listed in the abstract were born in Pa., unless otherwise noted. “School” indicates the person had attended school within the past year. “R.E.” stands for real estate. JACOB CRISSEY SR, aged 65, farmer, $1,000 R.E., can not read and write. Hanah, aged 47, can not read and write; Eliza. aged 26, can not … Read more
Southampton Twp., Somerset Co., Pa. Items crossed out below were crossed out in the original records. (150) = the total assessed value for each category. Given in dollars. ALBRIGHT, Jacob: Singleman; Laborer (30); 1 horse (59); militia man ALBRIGHT, Widow: Tenant; 2 cows (40) ARNOLD, Joseph: Singleman; Laborer (30); militia man BAILY, James: 409 unseated … Read more
Items crossed out below were crossed out in the original records. (900)=the total assessed value of all items listed; given in dollars. ABRAMS, Eli: Singleman ABRAMS, Gabriel: 147 acres (25 cleared) with 1 cabin house; 1 horse; 2 cows (913.75) ABRAMS, Henry: Singleman ANKENY, David: 100 acres (128.50) AUGUSTINE, Frederick: 150 acres (20 cleared) with … Read more
All items crossed out below were crossed out in the original records. (100) the total assessed value for all items listed, given in dollars. ALBRIGHT, John: 400 acres (10 cleared) with 1 house; 2 horses; 1 cow; 112 acres (5 cleared); 200 acres (2 cleared) (1,174) ARNOLD, George: 292 acres (30 cleared) with 1 cabin … Read more
The following is a list of landowners whose names appear on the 1876 landowner map of Jenner Township . Some of these names appear on the but for brevity\’s sake, are listed below only once: ANKENY, I ANKENY, J ANKENY, J Jr ANKNEY, L APPEL, William APPLE, N ARISHAN, J ASH, A BADGERS, Mrs BARKLEY, … Read more
1878 TAX LIST — Allegheny Twp., Somerset Co., Pa. Items crossed out below were crossed out in the original records. (500) = the total assessed value of all items listed. Locations given are post office addresses. AMERINE, Phillip: 400 acres – unseated (400) “sold to Com. 1874” AMES, Phillip: 400 acres – unseated (400) “error” … Read more
1863 TAX LIST — Stonycreek Twp., Somerset Co., Pa. Items crossed off below were crossed off in the original records. All values shown are the assessed totals for each category listed, given in dollars. ALDFATHER [Oldfather?], Joseph: Singleman; laborer (20); militiaman ALTFATHER, Elias: 280 acres (2,100); 3 horses (120); 3 cows (24); 1 carriage (30) … Read more
1832 TAX LIST of Elk Lick Twp., Somerset County, Pa. Items crossed off below were crossed off in the original records. Values shown are assessed totals for all items listed, given in dollars. BACKES, Daniel: 150 acres (40 cleared); 328 acres (10 cleared), 1 house; 2 horses; 4 cows (867). $175 in promissory notes BACKES, … Read more
1833 TAX LIST: Greenville Township, Somerset County Items crossed out below were crossed out in the original records. ALBRIGHT, George: Shoemaker; 100 acres – 2 cleared; 1 house; 2 cows ALBRIGHT, Henry: 1 cabin house; 1 cow; “removed” ALBRIGHT, John Jr: 1 cabin house; 1 cow ALBRIGHT, John Sr: 112 acres – 5 cleared; 376 … Read more