Beaver County,
Pennsylvania
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& The USGenWeb
Project
Hello,
My name is Martha and I will be your
guide to resources in Beaver County.
I do not live in Pennsylvania, but
both my husband and I have roots deep in her soil.
I will be happy to answer questions
and perhaps help find elusive records.
I can be contacted via email. Please
use this link
 Beaver County Neighbors:
Allegheny,
Butler,
Lawrence,
Washington, PA
Hancock County, WVA
Columbiana County, OH
A Brief History of Beaver County:
Wiki
Search Beaver County

1876 Atlas / Business Directory: Historic
Map Works
Pages 081 > 171 The pages are 4 to 5 mb in size.
Download to study offline
The TOC for Township Maps is Here.
Send for Scans
Four Mile Church: Gleanings from a Book on it's
History

Historical Pennsylvania Maps
Another Historic Map Site
Perry Casteaneda Map Collection
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Historic County Lines
Pennsylvania Topo Maps
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'Ancestor Tracks' Plat Maps
Pennsylvania Panoramic Maps
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Civil War Maps
USGenWeb Archives Map Project -
Pennsylvania
Sanborn Maps: Library of Congress
Beaver County
Communities ~ Formation, local Township data, Page Sets:
1,
2,
3
Canada:
Family Search /
Ancestry Inlcudes the following: Obituaries, WWI
Military Files, F-A-G, Ontario, Can Marriages, Council
Registrations US Residents serving in Canandian Expedition
Forces Marriage & Death Registers
Canadian Digital Newspapers
Canadian Digital Archives
Canadian Genealogy There is a website dedicated to
Canadian Obits from local papers.
Please use this link.

"California Gleanings" Databases for Folks from other
States who left a paper trail in California Use these
links:
Ancestry: California /
Family Search: California

Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive
This is the link for all of the
Newspaper Titles Here is a linked chart for the
Papers for Beaver County
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"What's New"

From the FS
Catalog:
Tidbits from the Big Piney
Examiner of Sublette Co., WY
1912 > 2006 - Some Years Missing
Compiler: Anna Lee Woffinden
The
Indexes for Each Booklet are Here
The Booklets are full of Obituaries, Death & Funeral Notices
Accidents, and the odd news article about local Pioneers
Send for scans
or
Download individual booklets from the FS Catalog
NEW>>>Family
Search: Civil Marriages: Pennsylvania 1677 - 1950
These Record Images have a lot of valuable information

California Digital newspapers
This Site has a great collection of CA Newspapers,
but many of them have articles from
other States including Minnesota
Use this Link

Contact Martha
This just in...New Database from Ancestry
New Hampshire, U.S., Prison Records, 1812-1968
Prison
Ledgers... Ancestry / Log into your Acct for Access
Family Search: Historical Images
The Types of Information:
Births, Biographies, Cemetery, Church Records, Citizenship Petitions,
Court Records, Deaths & DC's, Deeds, Docket, Ct Orphan Rec's,
Grantor / Grantee Rec's, Land Records, Marriage & Marriage Licenses,
Military Discharge Rec's, Naturalizations, 'Soldier Rec's',
Tax Records, Probates, Warrants, Wills
Locations & Time Frame:
Baden, Beaver County proper : 1775 - 1969
So...
The following will help you get a handle on information that could be of value to your search for Family data.
Use the
chart linked here
for the Film #
To access the Historical Images, log into your FS Account:
Click on Search, then at the top of the page: Historical Images:
You can begin with the search, but if you get lost or cannot figure it
all out, then use the chart linked
above.
So...Then...
Backtrack to Search, Catalog, and plug in the
DGS Film number of interest
from the Chart in the 'Fiche-Film' slot.
'Beaver County' Neighbors:
Allegheny,
Butler, Lawrence & Washington Counties, PA
Hancock County, WVA & Columbiana, OH Note: There are
over 100 Films for Washington Co., PA Marriages Use the
link for Allegheny County and scroll down

"Gleanings"
The "Gleanings" from my years of
Database Research can
be found here: Two
Sections: Family Search & Ancestry
Crime & Prison Records:
Family Search /
Ancestry
Military:
Family Search
/
Ancestry
Miscellaneous:
Family Search / Ancestry
Vital Records:
Family Search / Ancestry
If you just want to look at all the files
gleaned from Family
Search:
Use this Link
If you just want to
look at all the files gleaned from
Ancestry:
Use this Link
"PA Only" records will be found here
Many Indexes will be found using the above link
Records from the following States:
AL, AR, AZ, CA, GA, HI,
IA, ID, IN, KY, MI, MN, MT,
NC, NH, NV, NY [City], OH, OR,
Philadelphia, PA, SC,
TN, TX, UT, VT, WI, Willamette Valley,
OR, WVA
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Beaver County Cemeteries
F-A-G Indexes [FS] Cem Books:
1,
2,
3,
4
Beaver Co., Cems included in the
Archives
can be found here.
St Titus Cemetery - Burial Register
1902 > 1923

Kings Creek Cemetery, Hanover Twp
LDS 893734:FS
Catalog
St Joseph's
Cemetery - Partial Survey
The hand written Pages for the
Burial Register are available:
1-10,
11-20,
21-30,
31-40,
41-50
51-61,
Single: 48-61
Thank's Jen!
LDS Film
856808: Cemeteries Old
Transcriptions
Baden,
Concord Presbyterian,
Mt Olivet,
Mt Oliver [Ind],
P1-15 -
P16-29
John
Anderson Memorial Old Economy.
A-L,
M-Z [German Translations which include arrival in the US]
Harmony Society -Wiki
All of the above files have an
index at the end of the Transcriptions and are searchable pdf
files.

'Topo
Zone'
Use Topo Maps to find Cemeteries

Miscellaneous Records
Cemeteries, Funeral Home's, Coroner:
Family Search
/
Ancestry
Vital Records: Odds & Ends: Gleans:
Ancestry
Records from the following States:
Colorado, Michigan,
Montana, North Carolina, New Hampshire, Oregon, Central / East New
York Western New York
Passenger Lists,
Passports, Employment Records
Family Search
/ Ancestry
California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959
California, San Francisco Airplane Arrival Card Index, 1936-1949
Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger & Crew Lists,
1900-1959
U.S., Departing Passenger and Crew Lists,
1914-1965
Miscellaneous:
Family Search / Ancestry
Act of February 20 1866: Name
Changes: California AK- Pioneer Home, Appleton Biographies,
CA State Hospital Rec's,
Early Oregonians, Jackson Co.,
MO Voter Registrations, Michigan Mortality Schedule, North
American Families, Oregon Biography Cards, Pima, AZ, Voter
Registrations, PassPort Applications, Prohibition Agents,
American Red Cross Nurses, BaseBall Questionaires,
Craft
Persons, Eastern Cherokee Registrations,
Homestead Records, Iowa
Tax Assistance, Post Master Assignments,
Quaker Periodicals,
Register of Scientific Tech's,
US Consular Applications &
Certificates, US
Biographies: Women, St Albans, VT,
Border Crossings, Washington Indian Enrollments

Poulson's American Daily Advertiser
This publication has
Marriage and Deaths gleaned from the Newspaper: The dates range from Jan 1800 > Dec 1810
for both Marriages & Deaths.
The whole book can be downloaded from the FS Catalog: Log in to
FS and use 'Catalog' Search and "Poulson".
1800>1810,
1811>1825,
1826>1830
Here are Indexes
The pages are hand written
by one person, so once you get used to the formation of the
letters the names are not too hard to read.

History of Beaver County Newspapers: Francis Smith Reader,
1905
Book can be downloaded here.
"Every Name Index" for the History of Beaver
County Newspapers Nancy B Foster, 1992 The folks
listed in the index above can be found using the
PA Newspaper Archive Site |
Vital Records &
Obituaries
The basic search locations for Vital Records such
as
Family Search and
The Western
Pennsylvania Genealogical Society are just links,
everything else will have indexes for your use.
The Databases and links below will assist you with
your research.

The indexes below were created from FS & Anc Databases and have
data for the four Pennsylvania Counties I host:
Allegheny,
Beaver, Jefferson
& Westmoreland and coming
soon:
Records for Somerset County, PA
Vital Records : Marriages:
Family Search Databases
Records from the following States:
AL, AR, Arizona, California, Iowa,
Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachussets,
Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, New
York [City & County], Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Texas, Virginia
Marriage Database Indexes:
Ancestry
"PA Only" records will be found here
Death Records:
Family Search /
Ancestry
Pittsburgh City Deaths: 1870>1905
Minnesota Death Index: 1908-2007
B: Allegheny, Beaver, Jefferson
Records from the following States: Alabama,
Arkansas, Arizona, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idaho,
Indiana, Kentucky, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, North Carolina,
New Hampshire, Nevada, New York [City], Ohio, Oregon,
Philadelphia, PA, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Utah,
Vermont, Wisconsin, Willamette Valley, OR, West Virginia
Miscellaneous
Vital Records:
Vital Records:
Family Search / Ancestry
Newspaper Records & Obituary Indexes
Records from the following States:
AZ, CA, Grants Pass, OR, HI, IL, ID,
MI, MN, NH, OH, PA, San
Diego, CA
Pennsylvania
Obituary Gleans
Obituaries from
NewsBank Allegheny
~ Beaver ~ Jefferson ~ Westmoreland
1983 > 2020
/
Contact Martha for Obit
Coming Soon...
Obits for Somerset County
CA, Oakland, Alameda Co., Newspaper Record Collection,
[1985 > 2011] and many more
The images are on Family Search, sign in for access.
Obituary Central
/ Pennsylvania
US
Obituaries, American His. Soc. of Germans from Russia,
1899-2012

Pennsylvania, Schuylkill County, Schuylkill Haven,
Funeral Home Obituary Cards, 1914-2007
The above resource contains obits and
other information for many PA Counties. There appears
to be two images for each name entry
I have access to
San Luis Obispo County Newspapers and will do lookups
Obits-GenealogyBank [FS]:
Born: AK, MN, MO, OR, PA, & WI Died: San
Luis Obispo Co., CA
Contact for Query

Quaker Information Center
Cyndi's List of Quaker Records
Friends Historical Library
Quaker Records: Family Search
Hinshaw Index to Quaker Records
Monthly Meeting Notes: 1681 > 1935 [Ancestry]
The above resource is chock full of great
information.

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Lists, Lookups & Queries
There is a Mail List for
Pennsylvania
Use this Link to Subscribe
and post queries
If you wish to post new Queries,
please use the new Mail List:
PA 'io Groups' [Subscribe Link]
Lookups:
Archival Newspapers: Historical and Current [Obits, Vital
Records] Subscription Database Access:
Newspapers.com /
Access World News / Kansas City Star /
My Heritage / Heritage
Quest Fold3 /
Historic Map Works /
Civil War: Reports of Union Army Generals
Contact: Martha
Pennsylvania Archives: Magazine
These publications are chock full of great information and can
be downloaded here.
Libraries & Miscellaneous
Resources
University of Pittsburgh ~
Historic Pittsburgh Digital Collections
Rauh Jewish Archives
Pennsylvania Newspaper Archive:
Free Digital Newspapers
PA
State Records & Databases
Birth & Death Records ~
Land Records
PA
State Digital Archives ~
PA State Library
Pennsylvania
Newspaper Archive: Free Digital Newspapers
DAR
/ Colonial Dames: Records & Books
Early Vital Records ~ PA
Search the
DAR
~
The
GAR ~ The SAR
Colonial Dames Registers
& Records

New Military Resources:
The
American Civil War Research Database is for researching the
individuals, regiments, and battles of the American Civil War.
The database contains indexed, searchable information on more
than four million soldiers and thousands of battles, together
with 17,000 photographs.
I have access to the above
Subscription Database:
I will do limited lookups: Contact Martha
Record of the Federal Dead
Buried From:
Libby, Nelle Isle, Danville & Camp Lawton Prisons
and at
City Point, and in the Field before Petersburg and Richmond
Published: US Christian Commission
Philadelphia:
James B Rodgers, Printers, 1865
There is an
Index
and an Explanation about the
Cemeteries
Use this Link for the files
Download Book from Family Search or
Contact for Lookups |
Immigration, Ships Passenger Lists & Naturalization
German Settlement in Pennsylvania
Ship's Transcribers Guild
Pennsylvania 'Points of Entry'
German Passenger Lists
"The Palantine Project"
Pennsylvania Naturalization Records
Passenger Lists, Passports
& Employment
Gleans:
Family Search /
Ancestry
California, Passenger and Crew Lists, 1882-1959
California, San Francisco Airplane
Arrival Card Index, 1936-1949
Honolulu, Hawaii, Passenger Crew Lists, 1900-1959
New York, New York Passenger and Crew
Lists, 1909, 1925-1957
[Images] Pennsylvania, Passenger and Crew Lists,
1800-1962
U.S., Departing Passenger and Crew Lists, 1914-1965
Washington, Seattle, Passenger Lists, 1890-1957
Washington, Passenger and Crew Lists,
1882-1961
U.S., Chicago and North Western Railroad Employment Records,
1935-1970
All California, Railroad Employment Records, 1862-1950
UT, Select UPRR Pers Rec, 1890-1965
Crime & Punishment
Gleanings:
Family Search /
Ancestry
"Album of Criminals, 1906" FBI Records [NCBI Index]
Alcatraz, California, U.S. Penitentiary Prisoner Index,
1934-1963
Alabama, Convict Records, 1886-1952
California, Prison and Correctional Records, 1851-1950
Iowa, Consecutive Register of
Convicts, 1867-1970
Montana, Prison Records, 1861-1968 [Anc]
New Mexico, Department of Corrections Records, 1905-1958
PA, Prison, Reformatory, and Workhouse Records,
1829-1971
Texas, Convict and Conduct Registers, 1875-1945
Tulare County, California, Sheriff's Office and Jail Records,
1874-1963
"The ESPY Files" Executions in the US: 1608-2002
Miscellaneous Prison &
Correctional Institution Records
Family Search Catalog
FS Prison Records / Film & Name Index Searches |
AL, Deaths of state convicts, 1884-1951; deaths of county convicts,
1885-1922, 1884-1951 |
MO,Court martial papers,
Record Group no. 133, MO State Archives,
Jefferson City, 1862-1877 |
GA, Fulton Co. Records from the Atlanta His. Ctr, 1827-1955 |
GA, Savannah City Jail Registers, 1855-1873 |
LA State Penitentiary Records, 1866-1963 |
MA Reformatory for Women (Framingham, MA) 1874-1933 |
MT, Flathead County Records, 1871-2007 |
NH, Rockingham Co, prisoners index, 1772-1840 |
Suffolk Co. (MA) sheriff's records, 1799-1930 |
WA State Penitentiary inmate registers, 1881-1961 |
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Biographies for Beaver County
History of Beaver County,
Pennsylvania
Richard Jacob Fraise A Warner &
Co: Philadelphia & Chicago ~ 1888 There are three sets of
Biographies:
West Side ~
East Side ~
South Side There is no Index, but the pdf files are
searchable and in Alpha order.
Beaver County Officers 'From the above History'

Book of Biographies
Biographical Sketches of Leading Citizens of Beaver County,
Pennsylvania. Biographical Publishing Company
George Richmond, Pres: S Harmer Neff, Sec'y: C R Arnold, Treas
Buffalo, NY - Chicago ILL ~ 1899
The index is here,
Download the book here
[or send for pages of interest]

Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania
Under the
Editorial Supervision of John W Jordan, LLD New York:
Lewis Historical Publishing Company ~ 1913
The Index is here. Vols: I, II, III
Read Online or Download
[Or I will send pages of interest]

Genealogical & Personal History Of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
John W Jordan,
LLD ~ Volume II New York ~ Lewis Publishing Company ~ 1914
The Index is here.
Download the book here
Famous People of Pennsylvania
Rock Musicians of Pennsylvania
Historical Register of Places
History of the Railroad in Pennsylvania

Biographies
from my personal Research
Appleton's Cycolpedia of American
Biography: 1600-1889

<<<NEW>>> Genealogy Trails has some nice
Civil War Biographies: Major-General George Brinton
Mcclellan Major-General George Gordon Meade
Major-General Winfield Scott Hancock Major-General John W.
Geary Brigadier-General Alexander Hays Major-General John
Fulton Reynolds Lieutenant John T. Greble Rear-Admiral
David D. Porter Rear-Admiral John A. Dahlgren
Genealogy Trails also has lots of other
Pennsylvania Military Data.
Please use this link for access. "Thanks to Gen
Trails ~ We appreciate You!" |
Beaver
County and the Military/span
Soldier's
discharge books, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, 1919-1934
These files are really interesting. LDS Film 1463124
I have separated out the index pages which
can be sent as an attachment.
The whole roll of film is here,
Pages of Interest can be sent via email, contact me
Military Gleans:
Family Search
/
Ancestry
The
Internet Archives has a wealth of data available
Pennsylvania and 'The Wars'
Soldiers of the Great War, Vol 3, PA
and...
Civil
War |
War of 1812 |
Spanish-American War [Wiki]
War of the Revolution [Wiki]
PA Digital Archives ~ War Records
Internet Archives
Misc War Records
Fort Pitt ~
Military Forts in PA |
Military Records ~ Family Search
Modern Wars
Timeline of World War I | Timeline of
World War II
Korean Conflict
|
Viet Nam
|
Bay of Pigs
Desert Storm ~ Gulf War
Compiled Service Military Records
The Internet Archives [Archive.org] has a huge amount of filmed
records.
This link is for Pennsylvania
Military holdings at
the Pennsylvania Historical Society
Pennsylvania Military Cemeteries
Military Headstone Applications
Military Gleans:
Family Search
/
Ancestry
More from Family Search...
>>>Military Data:
Family Search Catalog<<<
Donation lands or military tracts granted to the officers and soldiers
of the Pennsylvania Line in the Revolutionary Army, 1780-1800
LDS Film 8248349 Read Image 6 for Explanation and Use.
Pennsylvania, Register of Military Volunteers, 1861-1865
Searchable Database
GAR Roster: Published:1921 Book: Grand Army of the Republic.
Department of Pennsylvania FS Catalog, 30 Pages, can be downloaded
<<<NEW>>>
Life-struggles in rebel prisons : a record of the
sufferings, escapes, adventures and starvation of the Union
prisoners, containing an appendix with the names, regiments, and
date of death of Pennsylvania soldiers who died at Andersonville
Statement of Responsibility: by
Joseph Ferguson ; with an introduction by Joseph T. Cooper
Publication: Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress
Photoduplication Service, 1988 Microreproduction of originals
published: Philadelphia : J.M. Ferguson, c1865. xxiv, 206 p.
LDS Film # 08812501 Index: A - F: Img 117 - 120 G - L:
Img 120 - 123 M - R: Img 123 - 125 S - Z: Img 125 - 128 |

"The Fine
Print"
Beaver
County Coordinator
Martha A
Crosley Graham
PAGenWeb
State Coordinator:
Nancy Janyszeski
Assistant
State
Coordinator (Eastern Counties)
Mary Ann Lubinsky
PAGenWeb
Assistant
State
Coordinator (Western Counties):
Martha A C Graham
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