![]() ![]() ![]() Somerset County, Pennsylvania This Site is part of The PAGenWeb Project & The USGenWeb® ProjectWelcome: My name is Martha and I am the Somerset County Coordinator: I do not live in PA, but both my husband and I have roots deep in her soil. I will do my very best to answer questions and perhaps help locate that missing piece of your "Ancestral Pie" Contact: Martha "With Thanks to Carol, Nancy, April & Connie along with their Volunteers for the great resources" ![]() Table of Contents: History ~ Biography ~ Maps ~ What's New ~ Lookups and Queries Vital Records ~ Obituaries ~ Gleanings Military ~ Crime and Punishment ~ Odds and Ends 'Old Somerset Files': ~ Townships ~ Cemeteries ~ Miscellaneous ![]() ![]() "The Fine Print" Somerset County Coordinator: Martha A Crosley Graham PAGenWeb State Coordinator: Nancy Janyszeski PAGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator (Eastern Counties): Mary Ann Lubinsky PAGenWeb Assistant State Coordinator (Western Counties): Martha A C Graham If you are interested in volunteering for this project, please review our "Volunteer" page and contact us! There are many ways to participate. Information contained on all of the pages within the Somerset County protion of the PAGenWeb may be used for personal genealogical and historical purposes. Please be considerate of copyright information and give credit where credit is due: Site Updated: 23 March 2023 Online Continuously since 1997 All Rights Reserved Contact the webmaster Somerset County, Pennylvania ~ PAGenWeb ~ USGenWeb® ~ USGenWeb® Archives Back to Top |
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Military Records and Resources Survey of World War Veterans of Somerset County, Pennsylvania [1935 & 1936: A WPA Production] This great book contains a lot of good information. Split out Sections: Please use this Link The book also contains a list of Deceased Veterans Military as well as Miscellaneous Articles Pennsylvania Archives: Magazine These publications are full of great information and can be downloaded here. |||/\/\|||~☺~|||W☺W|||~☺~|||/\/\||| War in Pennsylvania PA Volunteers in the Civil War - Somerset County Civil War ~ Civil War Maps ~ War of 1812 Spanish-American War War of the Revolution PA Digital Archives ~ War Records Fort Pitt ~ Military Forts in PA Internet Archives ~ Misc War Records US Mexican War Index & Service Records, 1846-1848 Military Records Family Search Compiled Service Military Records The Internet Archives [Archive.org] has a huge amount of filmed records. This link is for Pennsylvania Soldiers of the Great War, Vol 3, Pennsylvania Time Lines for Wars Military Gleans: Family Search / Ancestry Records from the States of: Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Delaware, Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Mississippi, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New York,, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Utah, Washington <<<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 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 Search: DAR ~ GAR ~ SAR [Ancestor Databases] and... Genealogy Trails also has lots of other Pennsylvania Military Data. Please use this link for access. "Thanks to Gen Trails" We appreciate You! |||/\/\|||~☺~|||W☺W|||~☺~|||/\/\||| Crime and Punishment FS Prison Records: Films: Ice Drive
1617966, Mc Neil Island ~ 956170, Yuma Territorial Prison 978903, V 2, San Quentin ~ 978904, V 3, San Quentin ~ 978905. V 4, San Quentin 978906, Vols A & B ~ 978907, Folsom Jefferson City, Cole County, Missouri Military Prison "The ESPY Files" Executions in the US: 1608-2002 Pennsylvania Prison Records Prison Records 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 Miscellaneous Prison & Correctional Institution Records Family Search Catalog: Please use this link for a Chart with Types and Dates Life Struggles in Rebel Prisons
LDS Film 8812501 There is an Index: Image Range 117 - 128 Miscellaneous Prison Records from Family Search Copy and Paste any row of the list into your browser, it will bring up the FS Link 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 |||/\/\|||~☺~|||W☺W|||~☺~|||/\/\||| Odds and Ends Historical Register of Places History of the Railroad in Pennsylvania Pennsylvania Historical Hospital Collections Mining & Land Records Mining in Pennsylvania Virtual Museum of Coal Mining ~Mining Artifacts Underground Miners Mining Disasters in Pennsylvania [Wiki List] Land Records Guide |||/\/\|||~☺~|||W☺W|||~☺~|||/\/\||| Census Records Records: Indexes & Images Pennsylvania Mortality Schedules 1890 Veteran's & Widow's Census Population Schedules: Download Rolls of Film USGW Archives: All Somerset County Files Stephen Morse & More |||/\/\|||~^☺^~|||W☺W|||~^☺^~|||/\/\||| Pennsylvania Probate Records: 1683>1994 Will Abstracts: Gen Soc of PA Vol VII [1920] |||/\/\|||~☺~|||W☺W|||~☺~|||/\/\||| Got Quakers ? Pennsylvania Church Records [Includes Quaker Records] Quaker Information Center Cyndi's List of Quaker Records Friends Historical Library ~ Quaker Records: Family Search Hinshaw Index to Quaker Records Hinshaw Records are also available in the FS Catalog |||/\/\|||~☺~|||W☺W|||~☺~|||/\/\||| Immigration, Ships Passenger Lists & Naturalization German Settlement in PA ~ Ship's Transcribers Guild Allegheny Pioneers ~ PA 'Points of Entry' German Passenger Lists "The Palatine Project" ~ PA Naturalization Records |||/\/\|||~☺~|||W☺W|||~☺~|||/\/\||| Lastly... "Gleans: Family Search" Database Indexes I have created over the years. This Link is for all PA Files Please use this link for all FS Databases FS Death Records: Alabama, Arkansas, California, Georgia, Hawaii, Iowa, Idabo, Illinois, Michigan, North Carolina, New Hampshire, New York City, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Vermont, Wisconsin Marriages: Databases Alabama, Arkansas, Arizona, California, Canada Iowa, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Massachussetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New York City, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, SLO, CA, Texas, Virginia, Wisconsin Obituaries: Databases Grants Pass, OR, Kaui, HI, Idaho, Illinois, Minnesota, Crawford, OH, Pennsylvania, Payson, AZ Military Databases [Ice Drive] From the States of: Alabama, Arkansas. California, Delaware, Iowa, Minnesota, Missouri, Mississippi, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Washington Coroner, Funeral Homes, Cemetery Databases [Ice Drive] From the States of: Arizona, California, Idaho, Kansas, Maryland Miscellaneous Databases [Ice Drive] AK, Pioneer Home, IA Tax Assistance, Jackson MO, Voter Registrations Native American Census, Pima, AZ, Voter Registrations Vermont, St Alban's Border Crossings |