This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Davis Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/1790.1 Message Board Post: Hello there, My ancestor Rachel Davis was born 1787 to an Abraham and Susanna Davis... could this wife be of relation?

My Thomas Kirkpatrick was born July 17, 1830 to William and Margaret Kirkpatrick in Fayette Co. according to his death certificate. Thomas died in Broome Co. NY on October 9, 1891. There is only 1 William Kirkpatrick residing in Fayette in the 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses. The 1850 census shows William being 70 yrs old, a stone mason and born in Ireland. I believe this is probably the same William Kirkpatrick in the naturalization record for Fayette Co. #379 WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK; petition August 25, 1829; born in 1780 in County Tyrone, Ireland; migrated to the United States in 1802; petition filed also October 1824. Does anyone have any more information on this family? Margaret was born in Allegheny Co. Who is she? Any help on dates, burials, marriage, wills etc. would be appreciated. Is there any more information that can be gotten from the naturalization records? Thank you! Todd Peterson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3358 Message Board Post: My Thomas Kirkpatrick was born July 17, 1830 to William and Margaret Kirkpatrick in Fayette Co. according to his death certificate. Thomas died in Broome Co. NY on October 9, 1891. There is only 1 William Kirkpatrick residing in Fayette in the 1830, 1840 and 1850 censuses. The 1850 census shows William being 70 yrs old, a stone mason and born in Ireland. I believe this is probably the same William Kirkpatrick in the naturalization record for Fayette Co. #379 WILLIAM KIRKPATRICK; petition August 25, 1829; born in 1780 in County Tyrone, Ireland; migrated to the United States in 1802; petition filed also October 1824. Does anyone have any more information on this family? Margaret was born in Allegheny Co. Who is she? Any help on dates, burials, marriage, wills etc. would be appreciated. Is there any more information that can be gotten from the naturalization records? Thank you! Todd Peterson

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3322.2.1.1 Message Board Post: My mother is a Barkley. Her family settled in Connellsville, Fayette County, PA. My maternal grandparents were: Earl Barkley and Luella Jane Sumner Barkley. They settled in Washington County, PA. Jim

Hello, My Mother was digging in the yard and found a bottle Summit Beverage (green bottle) the ingredients included fruit flavoring does anyone know anything about the bottle ? Thank you, Sherry

In the Connellsville Courier on 4th August 1917, there is a divorce notice between Margaret and Frank McCullough. It is before the Common Please Court of Fayette County, No.187, June Term 1917. I am hunting a Frank McCullough and I don't believe this is my Frank but I have to rule it out. Does anyone have access to this information? I am in London so can't chase it down in person. My Frank McCullough was born on 9 August 1863 in Fayette County and is with his family in the 1880 census. In 1900 he is a railroad man in Oregon, missing in 1910 and in 1920 with his cousin in Oklahoma. He died in California on 7 March 1942 near a different cousin. Thank you. Frances Sampey Deak

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3346.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Hi Tom, Thank you so much for the info. Mr. Dearth was a great help in helping me locate several gravesites I had a hard time finding. I have only been researching the Lilleys for the past 2 years as I didn't know that I was a Lilley decendant as I was told my grandfather had been adopted.Well he in a wayhe was by my G-Grandma Kates husband but he was her biological child. Thanks to a wonderful lady in the Uniontown area ( Beverly Domer) helped me figure it all out. He was born out of wedlock and named Mathias Franklin Stauffer. He then was Mathias Franklin Lilley as time passed. When he was about 15 she married Charles Weimer (son of George Wymer ) and my Grandfather took his name turned it to Franklin Mathias Weimer Hence my father was born a Weimer.Once that door was opened I 've been doing a lot of research as to my roots of the Lilleys . Have received so much help from fellow researchers of the names. Its a small world as I believe you said your G-Grandmother Lydia! 's mother was a Pastorius and I found in court record that my G-Grams sister Lydia married a pastorius and it was at her home per my Gram Kates obit that she passed.I took a hiatus and headed to Uniontown and spent 3 mths researching and obtaining documentation. Have not sorted all and put into any format my findings. I went and met living cousins that had Mathias and Jane Lilley as G=Grandparents-was wonderful meetings. I am confused now on this Thos. Lilley as I only found sitings of him in the census. no where in W.V. as that is where I found F.A.Lilley as Mathias' father. Well sry for rambling on just thought we could make a connection for all. Once again thank you for your time as the rest of the researchers too. Sherry had sent me all that wonderful info from Jane and it helped lead my path on my journey. I hope to be able to go back north in a few months but want to sort through what I have so I know what other factuals I need to look for(sure hope some day my g! randchildren will appreciate this he-he) . God Bless--Ellagrace

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3346.1.1.1.2.1.1.2.1.1.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: My cousin Margret has the card I refered to. I will have to catch up with her on my next trip north. Probally June or july. Lydia was buried out the Dearth Funeral Home at New Salem Pa , they may still have a copy. If i I can scan Margrets copy. I will forward a copy. . TOM

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This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brooks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3354 Message Board Post: Is there anyone out there with access to a 1950 North Union High School Yearbook? I am also looking for a picture of the Lemont Grade School that was torn down aprroximately 1960? Thanks! Bobbi

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Brooks Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3353 Message Board Post: Is there anyone out there from Lemont Furnace who may have access to a yearbook from North Union High School 1950? I am also looking for a picture of the Lemont Grade School that was torn down around 1960?. Thanks and hope to hear from someone soon! Bobbi

> > I found this posting in the archives does anyone recognize it or its author? I desperately need further info and the address is bouncing. > > Here are the names from the other page of death records that I have. The > dates are generally 1901-1902. This is from the death records books from > the Fayette County Courthouse in Uniontown. E-mail me off list for further > details. > > Henderson, Harvey > Heneberger, Anna M > Harper, Samuel > Hanford, George > Huey, Ella (or Etta) M. > Hileman, Leonard > Hillen, James > Hatfield, George > Harvey, Mary > Hibbs, Lacy > Hough, Cyrus > Houseman, H. S. > Hammitt, Nora > Hamilton, Clark W. > Husher, James > High, Nellie B. > Hager, David > Hannah, Annie E. > Higinbotham, T. K. > Honsaker, Mrs Lida > Huey, Infant > Harvey, Mildred > Hershman, Pearl > Hough, Charlotte > Hague, Harold > Horten, William T. > Hawes, Annie L. > Hough, Sarah J. > Hileman, Leonard > Hixenbaugh, F.C. > Hasson, Keith > Hileman, Mrs. Leonard > > Denise Gresh > dgresh@urec.net

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Kollar Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3352 Message Board Post: On the censuses for Pennsylvania: Fayette Co., PA, 1920 census, South Union Twp, family 492/496 Kollar, Joseph, head, M W, 37, married, imm 1914, Naturalized 1915, born Austria, F: Austria, M: Austria ", Paulina, wife, F W 32, m , ", ", Aus, Aus, Aus ", Mike, son M W 11, s, ", ", " " " ", Andy, son, M W 10, s " ", Bridget, daughter, F W 8, s, " ", Eddie, son, M W 5, s PA, Aus, Aus ", Lizzie, F W 2 S PA Aus Aus Fayette Co., PA 1930 census, South Union, Dist. 90, 58 Vernon Street, family 63/64 Kollar, Joseph, head, owns M W 49, m'd at 24, Czech Czech Czech, speaks Slovak, miner ", Pauline, wife, F W 42, m'd at 19, Czech " " " " ", Mike, son, M W 21, s, Czech " " " ", works in bakery ", Andrew, son, M W 19, Czech " " " ", Prinerer?, Enamel? Plant ", Edward, son M W 14 s PA ", Elizabeth, daughter, F W 12, s PA ", Emile, son, M W 8 s PA ", Emma, daughter, F W 8 s PA ", Francis, son, M W 3 s PA ", William, son M W 2 s PA ", Pauline, daughter, F W 2 s PA What happened to Josef and Paulina? When did they die? Where are they buried?

Hi All, People write & ask me questions all the time so I thought I'd give a little information here. It's just a drop in the bucket but may help some one. This is mostly for those new at searching for their ancestors. New researchers mostly think in terms of just obtaining a will. Sometimes that is fine & one gets the basic information needed, but this is not always the case. First of all, if a courthouse is willing to send you a copy of the will & even when you go there for it, you are not going to get a copy of the original will. You are going to get a copy that has been recorded in a numbered will book. The one exception is if the courthouse has microfilmed the actual wills & all the settlement of estate papers so you can examine them yourself. Otherwise, this can make quite a difference mostly for 2 reasons. But be careful - some courthouses have the ones from the Will Book & not the originals microfilmed too. You sometimes need to look over them very carefully to know the difference. Just because the handwriting looks old doesn't mean it's the original. Even some of the staff won't realize that as they don't really need to pay attention to those aspects of their jobs. 1. It will not show the original signatures of the party who died, nor anyone else, like the witnesses to the event. Sometimes this can be needed to prove it's the same person you are looking for in order to establish the comparison you might have from another document they signed. 2. There is always the possibility that the recorder missed a person mentioned in the will or states the wrong name, and/or even a date can be incorrect. I can site my own experiences over the years with this happening more than once. You need to insist on seeing the original copy if you suspect an error has occurred, otherwise all may just be fine with the recorded copy for the most part. I have also seen a person who's name can be spelled more than one way be recorded twice. It is because of this that you will see 2 wills in different sections of the book but for the same party. It doesn't happen too often, but it can. I'd rather that than not being recorded at all. The thing is that just because there is no will does not mean there is no estate to be settled in the Orphans Court. If the party owned property or had children who had guardians named for them you will find this recorded in the index listings. So many times this is over-looked & in published listings for early wills. It is true that many people without property of any kind did not have a will or anything to be settled. This is unfortunate but does happen. There should be the paperwork to look at involving any estate. However, some have been lost, stolen or misplaced over the years. This is more the case the earlier the time period involved. Many of the early estate papers are fragile & crumbling. Some courthouses have been microfilming all those earlier papers but not all courthouses have accomplished this to date. Actually, they do not like you to have to look at these papers but if something is really important you may find it is the only way to possibly & I do mean possibly glean further family data. I'll take this up further at a later time. One other thing to be taken up at this time is the fact that so many inquiries come in about people who have lived in the area & then moved on with their families to another county or state. This makes it harder to find courthouse data on them. Unless they are mentioned in a will or settlement as an heir they are not going to appear in the county were they left in that department. Then you will have to rely on material like a deed for sale of property they owned & sold or were involved with another member of the family in the disposition of property. There are also tax records that may help if you know what township they came from & if the years are available in the retentions center (providing they have one) or else you will need to check in the tax office or go to the local library to read them on microfilm. The library is the place for the early ones in Fayette County. This is just partial information above but I feel it is enough for a new person to absorb at this time. It is always best if you can visit the courthouse & take whatever time you need to do a search, but if you can't it may become necessary to enlist the aid of someone with the experience to do so for you. One just can't rely on doing genealogy by using the internet. It is a great tool but not the answer to everything. It is also advisable to learn the court house department of interest's procedures. You are pretty much on your own in most of them. The head of each individual department may differ in what they will & will not do. In fact, even costs of documents can vary considerably. I do hope this helps some of the new people on this list. It's just a fraction of what one needs to know if they are seriously interested in family research in detail & with back-up proofs to do with it. It is unfortunate that so many can't go to a court house to do their own work because of where they live but that's the case. It can take many long hard working hours to truly do your line in a proper manner. Good luck to all who are planning research trips this spring & summer. Ellen (ETHS-VP Visit my web site at: http://www.familytreetracer.com <http://www.familytreetracer.com/> <http://www.familytreetracer.com/> Visit my web site at: http://www.familytreetracer.com <http://www.familytreetracer.com/>

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3350.1.3 Message Board Post: Terri, Thanks for the offer to help. I was looking for the John Peter Walser (Waltzer) that was born in 1761 and died in 1834. His date of death closely resembles the John Walser from NC that I descend through. The gravestones here have eroded and there is no way of knowing exactly where he was buried. People keep linking my ancestor back to John Peter but they are two different people. I thought the records from PA would help solve this puzzle. Betty

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3322.2.1 Message Board Post: The Barkley name is of interest to me. I'm descendant from Jacob Barkley who settled in Somerset Co., Descendants then settled in Westmoreland CO. and places beyond. My Grandfather was William Cyrus Barkley son of Hiram. Doris

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3350.1.1.2 Message Board Post: I have a book that I purchased through Closson Press, entitled, "Index To Fayette Co., PA. Wills, 1783-1900" compiled by Bob and Mary Closson. It wasn't expensive, and has been very usefull to me in my research. Closson Press 1935 Sampson Drive Apollo, PA 15613-9484 (724)337-4482 (724)337-9484 - Fax Good Luck with your research! Terri L. Taylor-Pearsall North Palm Beach, FL

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3350.1.2 Message Board Post: Terri Is there a copy of the cemetery records of Jacob Lutheran in the Uniontown Library.

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3351 Message Board Post: Does anyone know if there is a My Family.com site for Fayette County, PA?

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/WdB.2ACI/3322.2 Message Board Post: Are you looking for the Nicklow's from Fayette County, PA? I was born and raised in Connellsville, Fayette County, PA. My parents are: James Nicklow and Lois Barkley Nicklow. My paternal grandparents were: Harry Nicklow and Opal Nicklow. Do any of these names ring a bell with you?