Sue, can you put up direct links to a few of these records you mention below, as I may be an idiot about web design, but I found it very difficult to find anything you mentioned below. -----Original Message----- From: pafrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:pafrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of pafrankl-request@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:01 AM To: pafrankl@rootsweb.com Subject: PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 4, Issue 69 Today's Topics: 1. Cumberland Co PA records online (Susan Marcus) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:07:51 -0400 From: "Susan Marcus" <smrcus@verizon.net> Subject: [PAFRANKL] Cumberland Co PA records online To: <PAFRANKL@rootsweb.com>, <mccurdy@rootsweb.com>, <PADUTCHgenONLY@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <91D698028FB441F1B1D5132DAD6B565A@D9GR0CB1> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" >From the Harrisburg PA Patriot-News, Wed 7/15/09 To access Cumberland County's archive documents, log onto www.ccpa.net, and on the left tool bar, click "public records" and then "archives" Images of documents are reached by clicking "archival holdings". Camera icons indicate scanned images. **************************************************************** Cumberland Co. residents once owned scores of slaves, and local taxpayers footed the bill for illegitimate children in their midst. Anyone with a computer can now journey back to that era, thanks for the crew at the county archives. Slave owner records, "bastardy bonds", prison calendars and all sorts of other archaic stuff have been posted on the county's website. Those papers aren't just old and yellowed. They're interesting. "Cumberland County has a long and rich history. This is an effort to preserve it, " information technology director Jerry Wilkes said. Barbara Bartos, county archivist, said more than 12,000 documents are online as part of a long-term project to inventory the county's documentary holdings. Some handwritten papers date from the county's founding in 1750 when it was part of the British colony of Pennsylvania and stretched to modern-day Pittsburgh. The slave returns were mandated by a 1780 law, Bartos said, and list the owners, names and often the ages o! f slaves who worked in the county's homes, farms, and factories until slavery died out locally in the early 1840s. Pension applications for the Revolutionary War veterans are on file from 1820 to 1838, when those vets would have been very old soldiers, she said. Bastardy bonds list municipal support for illegitimate children, Bartos said. The insolvent debtor petitions from 1750 to 1799 are echoes of misery. "Two hundred fifty years ago, if you couldn't pay your debts, you were thrown in prison," said Merri Lou Schaumann, who is scanning in the papers. Other documents soon to be on the site include county "estimates" - budgets - grand jury reports, voter lists and hawkers and peddlars license applications, Bartos said. *************************************************************** Pass this on to others if you wish. Sue Marcus ------------------------------ To contact the PAFRANKL list administrator, send an email to PAFRANKL-admin@rootsweb.com. To post a message to the PAFRANKL mailing list, send an email to PAFRANKL@rootsweb.com. __________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body of the email with no additional text. End of PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 4, Issue 69 ***************************************

Jill: Its easy to get started on this web site click on www.ccpa.net and when it opens scroll down a little bit on the right hand side to History etc, click on thinghs there and they will open up for you. Gordon Crooks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jill F Lackey" <jflanthropologist@sbcglobal.net> To: <pafrankl@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 8:53 AM Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 4, Issue 69 > > Sue, can you put up direct links to a few of these records you mention > below, as I may be an idiot about web design, but I found it very > difficult > to find anything you mentioned below. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: pafrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com > [mailto:pafrankl-bounces@rootsweb.com]On Behalf Of > pafrankl-request@rootsweb.com > Sent: Thursday, July 16, 2009 2:01 AM > To: pafrankl@rootsweb.com > Subject: PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 4, Issue 69 > > > > > Today's Topics: > > 1. Cumberland Co PA records online (Susan Marcus) > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Wed, 15 Jul 2009 12:07:51 -0400 > From: "Susan Marcus" <smrcus@verizon.net> > Subject: [PAFRANKL] Cumberland Co PA records online > To: <PAFRANKL@rootsweb.com>, <mccurdy@rootsweb.com>, > <PADUTCHgenONLY@rootsweb.com> > Message-ID: <91D698028FB441F1B1D5132DAD6B565A@D9GR0CB1> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > >>From the Harrisburg PA Patriot-News, Wed 7/15/09 > > To access Cumberland County's archive documents, log onto www.ccpa.net, > and > on the left tool bar, click "public records" and then "archives" Images of > documents are reached by clicking "archival holdings". Camera icons > indicate > scanned images. > **************************************************************** > Cumberland Co. residents once owned scores of slaves, and local taxpayers > footed the bill for illegitimate children in their midst. Anyone with a > computer can now journey back to that era, thanks for the crew at the > county > archives. Slave owner records, "bastardy bonds", prison calendars and all > sorts of other archaic stuff have been posted on the county's website. > Those > papers aren't just old and yellowed. They're interesting. "Cumberland > County > has a long and rich history. This is an effort to preserve it, " > information > technology director Jerry Wilkes said. Barbara Bartos, county archivist, > said more than 12,000 documents are online as part of a long-term project > to > inventory the county's documentary holdings. Some handwritten papers date > from the county's founding in 1750 when it was part of the British colony > of > Pennsylvania and stretched to modern-day Pittsburgh. The slave returns > were > mandated by a 1780 law, Bartos said, and list the owners, names and often > the ages o! > f slaves who worked in the county's homes, farms, and factories until > slavery died out locally in the early 1840s. > Pension applications for the Revolutionary War veterans are on file from > 1820 to 1838, when those vets would have been very old soldiers, she said. > Bastardy bonds list municipal support for illegitimate children, Bartos > said. The insolvent debtor petitions from 1750 to 1799 are echoes of > misery. > "Two hundred fifty years ago, if you couldn't pay your debts, you were > thrown in prison," said Merri Lou Schaumann, who is scanning in the > papers. > Other documents soon to be on the site include county "estimates" - > budgets - grand jury reports, voter lists and hawkers and peddlars license > applications, Bartos said. > *************************************************************** > > Pass this on to others if you wish. > > Sue Marcus > > ------------------------------ > > To contact the PAFRANKL list administrator, send an email to > PAFRANKL-admin@rootsweb.com. > > To post a message to the PAFRANKL mailing list, send an email to > PAFRANKL@rootsweb.com. > > __________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com > with the word "unsubscribe" without the quotes in the subject and the body > of the > email with no additional text. > > > End of PAFRANKL Digest, Vol 4, Issue 69 > *************************************** > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAFRANKL-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.375 / Virus Database: 270.13.16/2241 - Release Date: 07/16/09 05:58:00