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This project is used to relate all units from Pennsylvania who served in the Union Army.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dauphin County, PA.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, or died in Berks County, Pennsylvania. It is not to be confused with Bucks County, Pennsylvania History Reading developed during the 1740s when the inhabitants of northern Lancaster County sent several petitions requesting that a separate county be established. With the help of German immigrant Conrad Weiser, the county was formed on Marc...
July 1-3, 1863 This project is devoted to all soldiers of every rank who fought at the Battle of Gettysburg, and to the families of those soldiers. This project is less about the conflict than it is about the people who engaged in it. That said, many historians call this battle the turning point of the Civil War. After two years of fighting, the war was practically at a standstill. In M...
University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (commonly referred to as Penn or UPenn ) is an American private Ivy League research university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. Penn considers itself the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States, as well as the first university in the United States with both undergraduate and graduate st...
This project is focused around the genealogy of members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers). If you have sourced information, please don't hesitate to contribute. Influential and Well-Known Quakers George Fox William Penn, Founder of Pennsylvania Robert Barclay, The Quaker Apologist Susan B. Anthony, Civil Rights Leader Joan Baez, Singer and Political Activist John Dal...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Blair County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on February 26, 1846, from parts of Huntingdon and Bedford Counties. Adjacent Counties Centre County Huntingdon County Bedford County Cambria County Clearfield County Cities, Boroughs, Townships & Communities Allegheny Altoona Antis Be...
This project is for those from Pennsylvania and /or their respective Counties. Please go to following link for more information.
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Centre County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The lands of the future Centre County were first recorded by James Potter in 1764. Potter, having reached the top of Nittany Mountain, and "....seeing the prairies and noble forest beneath him, cried out to his attendant, 'By heavens, Thompson, I have discovered an empire!'" After the ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clinton County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on June 21, 1839, from parts of Centre and Lycoming Counties. Its name is in honor of the seventh Governor of New York State, DeWitt Clinton, however some sources suggest the namesake is Henry Clinton. Adjacent Counties Potter County Lycoming County U...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. Williamsport is the county seat of Lycoming County and is the birthplace of Little League Baseball. ) )
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived, or died in the city or county of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Also known as "The City of Brotherly Love" and "Philly" Formerly the capital of the United States when Washington D.C. was being built. Official Website Please see Wikipedia for a full history. Adjacent Counties Bucks County Burlington County, NJ Camden County, NJ Gl...
Laurel Hill Cemetery is a historic cemetery in Philadelphia. Founded in 1836, it was the second major garden or rural cemetery in the United States. In 1998, it was designated a National Historic Landmark; few cemeteries have received this distinction.[4] Located in Philadelphia's East Falls section, the 74-acre (300,000 m2) cemetery overlooks the Schuylkill River. Laurel Hill contains more t...
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Wikipedia Allegheny College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college in northwestern Pennsylvania in the town of Meadville, approximately 35 miles (56 km) south of Erie. Founded in 1815, Allegheny is the oldest college in continuous existence under the same name west of the Allegheny Mountains. Allegheny is a member of the Great Lakes Colleges Association and the North Coast Athletic ...
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was formed on March 11, 1839, from parts of Venango and Armstrong counties. The county seat is Clarion. Adjacent Counties Forest County Jefferson County Armstrong County Butler County Venango County
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Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Bedford County, Pennsylvania. Official Website History In 1750 Robert MacRay, a Scots-Irish immigrant, opened the first trading post in Raystown (which is now Bedford) on the land that is now Bedford County. The early Anglo-American settlers had a difficult time dealing with raids from Native Americans. In 1754 fierce fighting...
The Battle of Wyoming, or Wyoming Massacre, occured in the Wyoming Valley of Pennsylvania on July 3, 1778, between American Patriots and their Loyalist and Iroquois foes. At least 300 Patriots were killed in the battle. Resources "Massaccre of Wyoming"*
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Butler County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Factoids Butler County was created on March 12, 1800, from part of Allegheny County and named in honor of General Richard Butler, a hero of the American Revolution. Some famous inventions and discoveries were made in Butler County. It was in Saxonburg that the designer of the Broo...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Chester County, Pennsylvania. Official Website History Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester were the three Pennsylvania counties initially created by William Penn on August 24, 1682. At that time, Chester County's borders were Philadelphia County to the north, the ill-defined western edge of the colony (approximately the Susquehanna...
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Beaver County, Pennsylvania. The county was created on March 12, 1800, from parts of Allegheny and Washington Counties. It took its name from the Beaver River. Adjacent Counties Lawrence County Butler County Allegheny County Washington County Hancock County, W.V. Columbiana County, Ohio Cities, Boroughs, Townshi...
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October 6, 1683 - Thirteen families from Krefeld, Germany, arrived in Philadelphia to begin Germantown, one of America's oldest settlements. (Today in History, Antelope Valley Press, Thursday, October 6, 2011, p. B2). Germantown was founded by German settlers, thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families from Krefeld (Germany),[1][2] in 1681. Today the founding day of Germantown on October 6, 1683,...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Clearfield County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Overview Clearfield County was formed by the Act of Assembly by the second Governor of Pennsylvania at the time, Thomas McKean on March 26, 1804. The county was created from parts of the already created counties of Huntingdon and Lycoming. The name for the county was most likely ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. Official Website History Carbon County is a county located in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Its county seat is Jim Thorpe,which was founded in 1818 as Mauch Chunk, a company town of the Lehigh Coal & Navigation Company (LC&N) along a new wagon road the company was constructing nine miles long to th...
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University is an American private research university located in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. It was established in 1865 by businessman Asa Packer and has grown to include studies in a wide variety of disciplines. Its undergraduate programs have been coeducational since the 1971–72 academic year. As of 2014, the university had 4,904 undergraduate students and 2,165 graduate students. Lehigh is cons...
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The Pennsylvania General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. The legislature convenes in the State Capitol building in Harrisburg. In colonial times (1682–1776), the legislature was known as the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly. Since the Constitution of 1776, written by American revolutionaries, the legislature has been known as the General Assembly. The Genera...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. Official Website Lancaster is the county seat of Lancaster County. History Originally called Hickory Town, the city was renamed after the English city of Lancaster by native John Wright. Its symbol, the red rose, is from the House of Lancaster. Lancaster was part of the 1681 Penn's Woods Ch...
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Many of my ancestors came from Scotland and England and Germany to settle in Chester County Pennsylvania. Most likely, they landed in Philadelphia and came up the Susquehanna River and settled in the lovely Chester County area. The Lenape Indian area, Swedes settled the area followed by the Dutch and William Penn, who had a fleet of ships that landed in Philadelphia. This history is presented i...
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Adams County, Pennsylvania . Adams County is a county in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania . As of the 2010 census, the population was 101,407. Its county seat is Gettysburg . The county was created on January 22, 1800, from part of York County , and was named for John Adams, 2nd President of the USA . On July 1–3, 1863, the area aroun...
Gettysburg, Adams County, Pennsylvania: Samuel Gettys: Steve Courson: Julia H. Johnston: Julia Jacobs Harpster: Henry Eyster Jacobs: Eddie Plank: Samuel Simon Schmucker: John Studebaker: 16th President of The United States of America Abraham Lincoln: Governor of Pennsylvania Andrew Gregg Curtin:
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Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in the city of Erie, Pennsylvania. Official Website History Indigenous peoples occupied the shoreline and bluffs in this area for thousands of years, taking advantage of the rich resources. The Sommerheim Park Archaeological District in Millcreek Township, Pennsylvania west of the city, includes artifacts from the Archaic period in...
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The Philadephia 76ers (also commonly known as the Sixers ) are an American professional basketball team based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The 76ers compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member team of the league's Eastern Conference Atlantic Division. Founded in 1946 and originally known as the Syracuse Nationals , they are one of the oldest franchises in the NBA, and one...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wayne County, PA.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cambria County, Pennsylvania. The county was created on March 26, 1804, from parts of Bedford, Huntingdon, and Somerset Counties and later organized in 1807. It was named for the nation of Wales, which in Latin is known as "Cambria". The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on May 31, 1889, after the catastr...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Official Website History Bucks County is one of the three original counties created by colonial proprietor William Penn in 1682. Penn named the county after Buckinghamshire, the county where he lived in England. He built a country estate called Pennsbury Manor in Falls Township, Bucks County. Some...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Allentown, Pennsylvania . Official Website History Allentown, the county seat of Lehigh County , is located 50 miles north-northwest of Philadelphia on the Lehigh River. It is connected on the east with Bethlehem and along with Bethlehem and Easton constitutes a metropolitan area. Allentown is in an area of limestone deposits, f...
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Wikipedia Chatham University is an American university that has coeducational academic programs through the doctoral level, with its main campus located in the Shadyside neighborhood of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Chatham University maintains its Eastside Campus at the corner of Shadyside and the East Liberty neighborhood of Pittsburgh. This campus serves the Health Sciences and ...
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Consecration of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg, Gettysburg, Adams County,Pennsylvania, 11/19/1863: Gettysburg National Cemetery: 16th President of The United States of America Abraham Lincoln: Governor of Pennsylvania Andrew Gregg Curtin: Governor of Maryland Augustus Bradford: Governor of Indiana Oliver P. Morton: Governor of New York Horatio Seymour: Governor of New Jersey ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania. Wilkes-Barre is the county seat Luzerne County. History By the 18th century, the Wyoming Valley was inhabited by the Shawnee and Delaware Indian (Lenape) tribes. In 1753, the Susquehanna Company was founded in Connecticut for settling the Wyoming Valley (in modern-day Pennsylvania). Connecticut succ...
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We are creating a family tree of current and past residents of Greene County, Pennsylvania and their ancestry. Please feel free to join our project so that we can begin connecting trees and people together. Help explore how families within this geographic area are linked together. This project will ultimately include, but is in no way limited to, the volunteer research collected for www.Green...
Wikipedia Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (Carnegie Mellon or CMU; /ˈkɑrnɨɡi ˈmɛlən/ or /kɑrˈneɪɡi ˈmɛlən/) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The university began as the Carnegie Technical Schools founded by Andrew Carnegie in 1900. In 1912, the school became the Carnegie Institute of Technology and began granting four-year degrees. In 1...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Bradford County, Pennsylvania. It is not to be confused with the city of Bradford in McKean County . The county was created on February 21, 1810, from parts of Lycoming and Luzerne counties. Originally called Ontario County, it was reorganized and separated from Lycoming County on October 13, 1812, and renamed Bradford County for ...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cameron County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on March 29, 1860, from parts of Clinton, Elk, McKean, and Potter Counties. It is named for Senator Simon Cameron. Adjacent Counties McKean County Potter County Clinton County Clearfield County Elk County Boroughs, Townships & Communities D...
This subportal is part of the USA Portal . The commonwealth of Pennsylvania is a state located in the northeastern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. The Appalachian Mountains run through its middle. The commonwealth borders Delaware to the southeast, Maryland to the south, West Virginia to the southwest, Ohio to the west, Lake Erie and the Canadian province of Ontario to ...
Wikipedia Bucknell University is a private liberal arts college located alongside the West Branch Susquehanna River in the town of Lewisburg, in central Pennsylvania, United States. The university consists of the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Management, and the College of Engineering. Bucknell was founded in 1846, and features programs in the arts, humanities, sciences, social scie...
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University, commonly referred to as Temple, is a comprehensive public research university (formerly private) in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. The University was founded in 1884 by Russell Conwell. As of 2014, more than 37,000 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are enrolled in over 400 academic degree programs offered at seven campuses and sites in Pennsylvania, and ...
According to a lecture by Dr. George Schweitzer, a highly regarded genealogical researcher, ship owners were very actively recruiting German settlers to the colonies at this time. England was bringing large quantities of cargo back from the colonies and to make the process more profitable they needed cargo for the western-bound journey also. They weren't as concerned about bringing in money fro...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Scranton, Pennsylvania. Scranton is the county seat of Lackawanna County. Overview Scranton is the geographic and cultural center of the Lackawanna River valley and Northeastern Pennsylvania, and the largest of the former anthracite coal mining communities in a contiguous quilt-work that also includes Wilkes-Barre, Nanticoke, ...
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College=Swarthmore College is a private liberal arts college in the United States with an enrollment of 1,545 students. The college is located in the borough of Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, 11 miles (17.7 km) southwest of Philadelphia.Founded in 1864, Swarthmore was one of the earliest coeducational colleges in the United States. The school was organized by a Committee of Quakers from three Hicksi...
Place projects are projects on Geni that are focused of a specific geographical place or region. Places profiles are also the precursor to the upcoming Place Profiles feature. Place project portals Includes countries and kingdoms, and other top level place project. Geographical Australia Canada Europe Al-Andalus Austro-Hungarian-Empire Czech Republic-Bohemia Croatia Fin...
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In 1809 the Reverend William Cowherd established the Bible Christian Church, in Salford, as a breakaway from the Swedenborgian New Church in King Street, his congregation had to take a vow not to eat meat. Chapels were also established in Manchester at Ancoats and Hulme. The central idea of vegetarianism - that there is a kinship of all nature - stretches back 2500 years to the Greek philosop...