Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

Do you have any good newspaper/archive websites I can search thru for PA?

To the best of my family's knowledge, my grandmother was born in Clearfield, PA in 1911. Her father died when she was young in a train accident. I'm trying to search thru old newspapers to find out some more info.
I thought maybe you would have some extra PA knowledge :)

TIA!

Re: Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

have you tried ancestry.com?

you can use their free trial and search archives; i found my grandparents entry papers into ellis island, census papers for my maternal grandma who hails from PA.

you can build a family tree on there and save the docs for each person on the tree.

cool stuff.

Re: Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

yup! ive got my tree on ancestry.com
I had a subscription for a few months, but gave it up for the time being.

I'm trying to find whatever info i can outside of ancestry.com before i sign up again

Re: Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

Have you tried newspaperarchive.com? Technically you need a subscription, but there are some libraries where you can go there and use it for free, or log in for free at home with your library card number.

Re: Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

If you live in Suffolk (if not I'm sure Nassau has something similar" there is a link on the homepage that says something about historical papers. You type in you library card number and you have access to a bunch of really old Suffolk papers and the NY Times which is a great resource even for PA in listen obits and stuff. Another.. findagrave.com... weird I know but it works. Also, try familysearch.org go to the part where they list the sources they have. They do so by state. If you have something particular you are looking for I can try to find it for you. I do family histories for fun I have done all my friends and I find the craziest stuff!!! (I know I'm a nerd lol)

Re: Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

Some of these are free, some aren't
http://news.google.com/archivesearch

Can also try Genealogybank.com
http://www.genealogybank.com/gbnk/

Other links that might help with Pa. info!!!

http://pagenweb.org/


http://search.labs.familysearch.org/recordsearch/start.html#p=home

Hope these are helpful!!!! Mary

Re: Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

******Interesting history of rail accidents.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_pre-1950_rail_accidents#1910

Extra stuff

http://www.historicpa.net/history/clearfield.html

http://www.pagenweb.org/~clearfield/history.htm http://www.familyhistory101.com/county/pa-county-clearfield.html

Message edited 1/12/2011 1:47:09 AM.

Re: Mary! - PA Genealogy Question

Another link

http://www.pa-roots.com/clearfield/