Thank you so much for your suggestions! I will certainly follow up on these!! Beth M. Stuebgen ----- Original Message ----- From: <GrannyGlee@aol.com> To: <PABUTLER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 14, 2002 6:04 PM Subject: Re: [PABUTLER-L] 1916 Farm Directory > Beth, > Have you tried the Butler County Histories? > The library in Butler has a great obit file. It's being updated all the time. > They started with some of the older papers. I believe they are up in the > 1970s now. > If you contact them, they like only three requests at a time because they > have so many. They do them on a first come, first serve basis. When you get > three, then three more can be requested. > The Butler courthouse has a wealth of information. The birth and death > registrations only cover about 20 years. In 1906 they were no longer > registered with the county, but were registered with the state. > There might be estate files. Some give a wealth of information while others > may only be receipts. > Deeds may be helpful. I like to check them out. > If they were from the Saxonburg, there are books about the are. > Sometimes churches are great sources. The churches of my German Lutherans and > Catholics seemed to have kept better records. It seems to me that the > churches for my Presbyterian relatives lost the records to mice or the > churches burned. > Have you tried leaving message on some of the genealogy sites? > Think about some of these. > Glee > > > ==== PABUTLER Mailing List ==== > To contact Ed Book, List Maintainer, e-mail to: > edbook@alpha.clarion-net.com > >