Nicole can't get this address to work. www.higginsonooks.com Thanks for your help Ron Kelsey kssr2@comcast.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nicole Mealy" <wordengen@hotmail.com> To: <PACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 09, 2004 2:41 PM Subject: RE: [PACRAWFO] 1885 county history > Not sure if you can still get them from the historical society or not. I > do know that it is for sale at www.higginsonooks.com > > PA0017- > HISTORY OF CRAWFORD CO > Containing a Hist. of the Co.; its Twps., Towns...etc., > Portraits of Early Settlers & Prominent Men, Biogr., etc. > 1186p. (1885) 1990. $119.50 > > Nicole Mealy > >>From: "Annette Lynch" <all_lynch@hotmail.com> >>Reply-To: PACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com >>To: PACRAWFO-L@rootsweb.com >>Subject: [PACRAWFO] 1885 county history >>Date: Thu, 09 Sep 2004 02:02:52 +0000 >> >> >>For those of you who are not familiar with the standard 1885 Crawford Co. >>history, here are a few notes which might make it easier to make >>inquiries: >> >>As Diana Watson said, it was published in 1885 >> >>It includes information about the county from its formation in 1800 to >>1885. >> >>There are sections on the history of each township, including names of >>early settlers, early purchasers, etc. >> >>There is a biographical section. The biographies can vary from just a >>single paragraph to several pages per person. It appears that they were >>paid for by the person or family involved - a subscription, if you will, >>to have your bio. included in the book. Obviously, then, the bios cover >>only a tiny fraction of the population of the county. And, since they >>were submitted by people living here in 1885 when the book was published, >>it rarely includes detailed information about people who moved on early in >>the county's history. >> >>There is an every-name index, which was not original to the book. >> >>Reprints are still available, I believe, from the county historical >>society. >> >> >> >>==== PACRAWFO Mailing List ==== >>Looking for your ancestors in Crawford County? Visit the Crawford County, >>PA USGenWeb site at: http://www.rootsweb.com/~pacrawfo >> >>============================== >>Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration >>Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. >>http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >> > > _________________________________________________________________ > Don't just search. Find. Check out the new MSN Search! > http://search.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200636ave/direct/01/ > > > ==== PACRAWFO Mailing List ==== > ~ SUBJECT LINES ~ > Think about it!! A picture's worth 1000 words; a Subject Line more! The > 4 W's: Who? What? When? and Where? Don't leave home without 'em! > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 >