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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.

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

PRESS RELEASE 1 December 2008 – PA-Roots, the premier internet resource for genealogical and historical research in Pennsylvania and the mid-Atlantic region has filed Articles of Incorporation under the Pennsylvania Nonprofit Corporation Law of 1988 and is organized exclusively for the following purposes: To make genealogical and historical data freely available on the Internet for … Read more

PA-Roots is excited to announce the completion of the upgrade to the new server.  We express our appreciation to all those who contributed to make this possible.  Along with the upgraded server we have upgraded the website to enable registered users to contribute data.  The DataBoards have been upgraded to the latest version of software.  … Read more

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