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The Board of Directors is sad to report that Alice Gayley, the Vice President of PA-Roots passed away on August 11, 2015. Alice and Nathan Zipfel began PA-Roots in 1998 as a resource for Pennsylvania county pages they were involved with. Alice was the co-host for Jefferson and Armstrong counties in those early days. Alice … Read more
PA-Roots.com, Inc recently acquired a small library of donated genealogical books which are being made available to Friends of PA-Roots in terms of free look-ups. We will start out by featuring one book and offer look-ups in it for one week and then, hopefully, we can move on to another the next week, etc. With … Read more
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
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
The Life of a Soldier With the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War I’ve been thinking about many in my family tree that served during the Civil War. Many served and returned home to grateful family members. Others went off to war and never returned home. My 3rd great uncle was one … Read more
It seems that recently I have been doing a lot of work with cemetery transcriptions and tombstone photos. I think I’ve always had a fascination with cemeteries. It must have started when I was just a child visiting a cemetery that my grandparents were buried in and it has grown from there. I remember when … Read more
Shirley Pierce, a founding Director of PA-Roots passed away on 6 February 2010 following a valiant fight with cancer. Shirley was very active providing resources for Clearfield, Elk and Jefferson counties in Pennsylvania. During the Board of Directors meeting in January Shirley was elected to the status of Director of Emeritus. Her presence will be … Read more
Hi all, Â A number of new additions have been made over the past couple of weeks. Martha and Terry teamed up to enter marriage records for these five churches: 1. Philadelphia Monthly Meeting of Friends (1682–1793). 2. German Reformed Church, Philadelphia.3. First Baptist Church, Philadelphia. 4. Presbyterian Church, Abington, Montgomery County, Pa. (1708–1800).5. Neshaminy Presbyterian … Read more