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This project is used to relate all units from Pennsylvania who served in the Union Army.
Wikipedia Indiantown Gap National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in East Hanover Township, in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Find a Grave The Gettysburg National Cemetery within the Gettysburg National Military Park is an American Civil War cemetery created for Union casualties of the Battle of Gettysburg. In addition to reinterments from the Gettysburg Battlefield, the 1863 state-owned "national cemetery" has subsequent sections for Spanish–American War, World War I, and other wars' soldiers and their ...
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 of those who were born, lived or died in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Official County Website Official City Website Overview The County of Lancaster is a popular tourist destination, with its Amish community a major attraction. Contrary to popular belief, the word "Dutch" in "Pennsylvania Dutch" is not a mistranslation, but rather a corruption of the Pennsylvania ...
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...
AKA Saylorsburg Lake View Cemetery. This cemetery is located in Saylorsburg, Monroe County, Pennsylvania. Find a Grave
This project is for those from Pennsylvania and /or their respective Counties. Please go to following link for more information.
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...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Dauphin County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on March 4, 1785, from part of Lancaster County and was named after Louis-Joseph, Dauphin of France, the first son of king Louis XVI. Located within the county is Three Mile Island Nuclear Generating Station, site of the 1979 nuclear core meltdown. The county c...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Lebanon County, PA.
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in York County, PA.
Wikipedia Lafayette College Lafayette College is a private coeducational liberal arts and engineering college located in Easton, Pennsylvania, USA. The school, founded in 1826 by James Madison Porter, son of General Andrew Porter of Norristown and the citizens of Easton, first began holding classes in 1832. The founders voted to name the school after General Lafayette, who famously toured t...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lackawanna County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on August 13, 1878, following decades of trying to gain its independence from Luzerne County. (The courts were organized in October 1878.) It is Pennsylvania's last county to be created, and the only one created after the Civil War. It is named for the Lacka...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Tioga County, PA.
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Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Cumberland County was first settled by a majority of Scots-Irish immigrants who arrived in this area about 1730. English and German settlers constituted about ten percent of the early population. The General Assembly (legislature) of the Pennsylvania colony on January 27, 1750, ...
Wikipedia La Salle University is a private, co-educational, Roman Catholic university located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S. Named for St. Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, the university was founded in 1863 by the Institute of the Brothers of the Christian Schools. The university offers traditional, online, and hybrid courses and programs. The university is affiliated with the Roman Catholic C...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Washington County, PA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Franklin County, Pennsylvania. Not to be confused with the city of Franklin in Venango County. Official Website Franklin County became an independent jurisdiction on September 9, 1784, relatively soon after the end of the American Revolutionary War. It is named in honor of Founding Father Benjamin Franklin. Adjacent Counties ...
Bertolet’s Mennonite Church Cemetery, Frederick, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA:
Official Website Wikipedia Brig. Gen. Am. Rev. John Armstrong
This is for profiles created as part of the Lithuanian Heritage Project. The goal of the Lithuanian Heritage Project is to work collaboratively to build the information bridge between countries and generations, to collect information that enables Lithuanians globally to connect with their Lithuanian family members. The Cemetery Project included profiles of Lithuanians buried in three Lithua...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Westmoreland County, PA.
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...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Northampton County, PA.
Dryland Reformed Cemetery, Hecktown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA: THE DRYLAND CHURCH YARD IS SITUATED AT HECKTOWN,PA. LOWER NAZARETH, TOWNSHIP,ROUTE 191, ABOUT 1-1/2 MILES NORTH OF ROUTE 22, ON WEST SIDE OF THE HIGHWAY, BEHIND TRINITY LUTHERAN CHURCH. The above are directions for Dryland(old), no stones in this part, just a plaque with names and dates
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Northumberland County, PA.
Saint Johns UCC Cemetery, Kutztown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA: ? Hope Cemetery, Kutztown and Saint Johns UCC Cemetery are contiguous to each other but separate cemeteries.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. The county was created on March 2, 1831 and named for the Juniata River. The word "juniata" itself is a Seneca word that means either "people of the standing stone" or "blue waters". Adjacent Counties Franklin County Perry County Huntingdon County Mifflin County Dauphin County Northumber...
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...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lehigh County, PA.
Wikipedia Duquesne University of the Holy Spirit (/djuːˈkeɪn/) is a private Catholic university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded by members of the Congregation of the Holy Spirit, Duquesne first opened its doors as the Pittsburgh Catholic College of the Holy Ghost in October 1878 with an enrollment of 40 students and a faculty of six. In 1911, the college became the first C...
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...
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 Luzerne County, PA.
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Monroe 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...
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 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...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Mercer County, PA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Erie County, Pennsylvania. History Erie County was established on March 12, 1800. Prior to 1792, the region was claimed by both New York and Pennsylvania and so no county demarcations were made until the federal government intervened. On March 23, 1823, the Erie County Courthouse burned and all county records to that point were...
Old Saint David Church Cemetery,Wayne, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, 19087 USA: ?
Old Graveyard,Carlisle, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA
Wikipedia The Johnstown Flood (locally, the Great Flood of 1889) occurred on May 31, 1889, after the catastrophic failure of the South Fork Dam on the Little Conemaugh River 14 miles upstream of the town of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. The dam broke after several days of extremely heavy rainfall, unleashing 20 million tons of water from the reservoir known as Lake Conemaugh. With a volumetric flo...
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...
Neffs Union Cemetery Also known as Unionville Cemetery, 5550 Route 873 Neffs, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA:
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...
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:
Egypt Reformed Church Cemetery,Egypt, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA: ?
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in McKean County, PA.
Lower Saucon Church Cemetery, Hellertown, Northampton County, Pennsylvania, USA: ? This church is on the public road leading out of Hellertown, PA. It is two miles east of Hellertown and 8 ½ miles west of Riegelsville, PA. The public road divides the church property. The church building stands on the north side, with the so-called "New Cemetery" back and north of the building; the so-calle...
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...
Wikipedia Haverford College Haverford College is a private, coeducational liberal arts college located in Haverford, Pennsylvania, United States, a suburb of Philadelphia. All students of the College are undergraduates, and nearly all reside on campus. The college was founded in 1833 by area members of the Orthodox Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) ...
Trinity Lutheran Cemetery, Bowmanstown, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA: ?
Franconia Mennonite Church Cemetery,Telford, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 18969 USA : Franconia Township. The cemetery is behind the church off Meetinghouse Road.
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...
Milton Cemetery, Milton, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA :
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 of those who were born, lived or died in Fayette County, Pennsylvania. Official Website History The first Europeans in Fayette County were explorers, who had used an ancient American Indian trail that bisected the county on their journey across the Appalachian Mountains. In 1754, when control of the area was still in dispute between France and Great Britain, 22-year-ol...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Schuylkill County, PA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Jefferson County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was established on March 26, 1804, from part of Lycoming County and later organized in 1830. It is named for President Thomas Jefferson. It is home to Punxsutawney Phil, the most famous groundhog that predicts when spring will come every February 2 known as Groundhog Day...
Saint Luke's Lutheran Church Cemetery,Obelisk, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA: The corner stone for this church was laid on September 28, 1833. It was originally a "union" church, serving both German Reformed and Lutheran congregations. Each group had their own pastors, who preached on alternating Sundays. The Church was originally named "Peace in Zion", but it was known as Keelor's U...
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...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Somerset County, PA.
Union Cemetery,Slatington, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA: Located on Route 873 in Washington Township, Lehigh County, just south of Slatington Borough. Cemetery Street runs through the north edge of the cemetery.
Dinkey Memorial Cemetery, Lehighton, Carbon County, Pennsylvania, USA:
Paradise Cemetery, Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, USA:
Fairview Cemetery, Kutztown, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA:
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Delaware County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Overview Delaware County lies in the river and bay drainage area named "Delaware" in honor of Thomas West, 3rd Baron De La Warr, Governor of the nearby English colony of Virginia. The land was explored by Henry Hudson in 1609, and over the next several decades it was variously clai...
West Swamp Mennonite Cemetery, Quakertown, Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA :
Fricks Meetinghouse and Burial Ground,Hatfield, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, 19440 USA:
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...
Please add profiles for people who were born, lived or died in Union County, PA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Perry County, PA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Greene County, Pennsylvania. Official Website Greene County was created on February 9, 1796, from part of Washington County and named for General Nathanael Greene. Adjacent Counties Fayette County Monongalia County, WV Washington County Marshall County, WV Wetzel County, WV Boroughs & Townships Aleppo Carm...
Wikipedia Franklin & Marshall College (abbreviated as "F&M") is a four-year private co-educational residential national liberal arts college in the Northwest Corridor neighborhood of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States. It employs 175 full-time faculty members and has a student body of approximately 2,324 full-time students. F&M was ranked 37 on U.S. News & World Report's 2014 list of li...
Lehigh County Massacre Gravesite, Egypt, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, USA Here on October 8, 1763, John Snyder and his wife, Anna Margaret Wotring, with their three children, and Jacob Alleman's wife and child were killed by Indians. Their bodies were buried 200 yards south of this spot. John Jacob Mickley's children, Henry and Barbara, killed the same day, were buried half a mile to the ea...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Huntingdon County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on September 20, 1787 and was named for the Countess of Huntingdon, England. Adjacent Counties Centre County Mifflin County Blair County Bedford County Fulton County Franklin County Juniata County
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Columbia County, Pennsylvania. The county was created on March 22, 1813, from part of Northumberland County and named for Columbia, a poetic name for the United States that alludes to Christopher Columbus. Adjacent Counties Sullivan County Luzerne County Schuylkill County Northumberland County Montour County Lycoming...
Wikipedia Dickinson College Dickinson College is a private, residential liberal arts college in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1773 as Carlisle Grammar School, Dickinson was chartered September 9, 1783, six days after the signing of the Treaty of Paris, making it the first college to be founded after the formation of the United States. Dickinson was founded by Benjamin ...
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Lawrence County, PA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Indiana County, Pennsylvania. Official Website History Indiana County (Indiana meaning "land of the Indians") derives its name from the so-called "Indiana Grant of 1768" that the Iroquois Six Nations were forced to make to "suffering traders" under the Fort Stanwix Treaty of 1768. The Iroquois had controlled much of the Ohio Ri...
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 ...
Wikipedia Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) is a public university in Indiana County, Pennsylvania, United States. Along with West Chester University of Pennsylvania, it is one of the two largest universities in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and thus the commonwealth's fourth or fifth largest public university. As of fall 2014, IUP had 14,471 undergraduates...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Pike County, PA.
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Susquehanna County, PA.
Genalogy of the Rachor familes Familiengeschichte der Familien Rachor Informationen zum Wappen der Familien Rachor: Wappenbeschreibung: Unter rotem Schildhaupt, darin drei weiße Spitzen, in weißem Grund grünes Eichenlaub mit aufrecht stehendem silbernen Schwert. Wappengeschichte: Der "Fränkische Reschen" deutet auf die fränkische Abstammung der Rachor - Sippe hin (Vergleich Frankenw...
Egypt Cemetery , Egypt, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, : ?
Please add profiles for those who were born, lived or died in Venango County, PA.
Shorts Cemetery, Venango, Venango County, Pennsylvania, 16342 USA: ? From Franklin follow Route 8 South to SR 3013 Old Route 8 which is just past the Polk Cutoff road. Turn right on Old Route 8 and continue through Springville to Victory Run Road on the left. Continue on Old Route 8 for 1.5 Miles past Victory Run Road to a house on the right side of the road this is the Old Shorts Farm. The...
This is an umbrella project for all projects related to Jews from Pennsylvania . Rauh Jewish Archives By 1656 New Amsterdam Jews traded along the Delaware River on Pennsylvania's eastern border, and by 1681 several Jews probably settled in the southeastern area. While most of these Jews were of Spanish-Portuguese origin, during the 18th century many came from Central Europe. Isaac...
Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Crawford County, Pennsylvania. Official Website The county was created on March 12, 1800, from part of Allegheny County and named for Colonel William Crawford. Adjacent Counties Erie County Warren County Venango County Mercer County Trumbull County, Ohio Ashtabula County, Ohio
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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 ...
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...
Hickory Grove Cemetery, Polk, Venango County, Pennsylvania, USA