Happy Holidays, I copied and pasted this info from another list. Thought it might be of interest to many people on our list as well. Barb > >-----Original Message----- >From: Susanne B. Jones <fsc01023@mail.wvnet.edu> >To: WVOHIO-L@rootsweb.com <WVOHIO-L@rootsweb.com> >Date: Friday, December 10, 1999 7:04 PM >Subject: [WVOHIO] History of Allegheny Co., etc. > > >>Happy Holidays, >>I copied and pasted this info from another list, as a lot of people who >>ended up on the Ohio River were from Allegheny Co. This site is >>AWESOME! >>Susie >> >>The "Historic Pittsburgh Collection" is an online collaboration between >>the University of Pittsburgh and the Historical >>Society of Western Pennsylvania. They are making available >>full-text-searchable books published in the nineteenth and early >>twentieth centuries. The History of Allegheny County is among those >>books. So now you can quickly and easily do your own lookup in this >>wonderful reference book and many others. The goal is to put online >>"more than 400 items, over 500 archival finding aids, approximately 600 >>land ownership maps, and access to the Historical Society of Western >>Pennsylvania's catalog." >> >>The website is at http://digital.library.pitt.edu/pittsburgh/ >> >>The History of Allegheny County table of contents is located at >> >>http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/pitttext-idx.pl?notisid=00afq9167m & >type=header >> >>This site is amazing - you've got to check it out! >> >> >> >