I was looking into ordering a birth record and was surprised to learn that I'd have to provide a copy of my driver's license, but I'm not comfortable doing that via mail. Is there another way to get the records? I'd appreciate your advise. Thank you, Laurie

In the map printed in the 1915 Scranton City Directory (R. L. Polk Co.), the street is indexed and shown as Accomodation St. It ran from Elizabeth St. to Pine St., at the south end of Elizabeth, the south end of Franklin, and crossing Smith and Hill Streets between Conley and Center Streets. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Sue" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 10:13 PM Subject: Re: [PA-LAC] Census interpretation > I too went and looked up the image and agree with Steve..it reads Accomadation Street. > Then I recalled seeing a website recently that listed street name changes for all over the country. http://stevemorse.org/census/changes.html > I checked it out and found here that there was an Accomadation (Scranton, PA) that was changed to Terrace.... > I don't know if Dunmore would have been shown separate from Scranton, this item reads as if this information was taken from the 1931 city directory.... > > > > > Steve Swales <[email protected]> wrote: > It certainly appears to be Elizabeth St. at the top, and (something very > much like) Accomodation (one m) St. for the rest of the page, including > the Derrick's address. I find no reference to an Accomodation St. on > the palackaw website, however. There is still an Elizabeth Street in > Dunmore. > > janice olds wrote: > > >Can anyone make out the name of the street for the following 1910 census? > >2-WD Dunmore Boro, Lackawanna, PA, series T624, Roll 1357, Part 1, Page 70A > > > >I'm trying to tie Derrig/Derrick family Will information to locations where the family lived. > >thanks, > >jho > > > > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > >Subscribers -- Off topic postings (particularly political, advertising, or just plain rude) > >AND responses on the list are grounds for being Unsubscribed > >Please forward any offending email to > > > > > > > > > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Subscribers -- Off topic postings (particularly political, advertising, or just plain rude) > AND responses on the list are grounds for being Unsubscribed > Please forward any offending email to > > > > Sue > > --------------------------------- > Do you Yahoo!? > Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term' > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Have you visited some of the surrounding counties? http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/#Surrounding_Counties > To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/mailist.html#unsubscribe > > >

Thanks to all for the excellent detective work. My Derrig(s) were mostly on Franklin and later Mortimer Streets in Dunmore but Accomodation/Terrace is a new clue. For those that wish to start a Derrig discussion, I was looking at my g-grandparents, John & Mary Derrig and four of their eleven children. John's parents, Dennis and Margaret Derrig (aka Derrick/Derick/Durick) lived on Franklin. janice hart-olds

I too went and looked up the image and agree with Steve..it reads Accomadation Street. Then I recalled seeing a website recently that listed street name changes for all over the country. http://stevemorse.org/census/changes.html I checked it out and found here that there was an Accomadation (Scranton, PA) that was changed to Terrace.... I don't know if Dunmore would have been shown separate from Scranton, this item reads as if this information was taken from the 1931 city directory.... Steve Swales <[email protected]> wrote: It certainly appears to be Elizabeth St. at the top, and (something very much like) Accomodation (one m) St. for the rest of the page, including the Derrick's address. I find no reference to an Accomodation St. on the palackaw website, however. There is still an Elizabeth Street in Dunmore. janice olds wrote: >Can anyone make out the name of the street for the following 1910 census? >2-WD Dunmore Boro, Lackawanna, PA, series T624, Roll 1357, Part 1, Page 70A > >I'm trying to tie Derrig/Derrick family Will information to locations where the family lived. >thanks, >jho > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Subscribers -- Off topic postings (particularly political, advertising, or just plain rude) >AND responses on the list are grounds for being Unsubscribed >Please forward any offending email to > > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== Subscribers -- Off topic postings (particularly political, advertising, or just plain rude) AND responses on the list are grounds for being Unsubscribed Please forward any offending email to Sue --------------------------------- Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Search presents - Jib Jab's 'Second Term'

Can anyone make out the name of the street for the following 1910 census? 2-WD Dunmore Boro, Lackawanna, PA, series T624, Roll 1357, Part 1, Page 70A I'm trying to tie Derrig/Derrick family Will information to locations where the family lived. thanks, jho

It certainly appears to be Elizabeth St. at the top, and (something very much like) Accomodation (one m) St. for the rest of the page, including the Derrick's address. I find no reference to an Accomodation St. on the palackaw website, however. There is still an Elizabeth Street in Dunmore. janice olds wrote: >Can anyone make out the name of the street for the following 1910 census? >2-WD Dunmore Boro, Lackawanna, PA, series T624, Roll 1357, Part 1, Page 70A > >I'm trying to tie Derrig/Derrick family Will information to locations where the family lived. >thanks, >jho > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Subscribers -- Off topic postings (particularly political, advertising, or just plain rude) >AND responses on the list are grounds for being Unsubscribed >Please forward any offending email to <mailto:[email protected]> > > > >

Would SKS please look-up the obituary for Mary Ann (Richards) Thomas b: c1834 Died:15 May 1901 In Taylor, Lackwanna,Pa. If you can get a copy or give me Info. to get a copy I would be very greatful. I will reimburse for cost of copies & all postage Thank you in advance, Sheri Nielsen

Would SKS please look-up the obituary for: Bezaleel Thomas b: c1829 Died:24 Febuary 1905 In Taylor, Lackwanna,Pa. If you can get a copy or give me Info. to get a copy I would be very greatful. I will reimburse for cost of copies & all postage Thank you in advance, Sheri Nielsen PS. I have know clue what happened to my first message. It didn't come out the way I wrote it..??

Would SKS please look-up the obituary for Mary Ann (Richards) Thomas b: c1834 Died:15 May 1901 In Taylor, Lackwanna,Pa. If you can get a copy or give me Info. to get a copy I would be very greatful. I will reimburse for cost of copies & all postage Thank you in advance, Sheri Nielsen

Would SKS please look-up the obituary for Bezaleel Thomas b: c1829 Died:24 Febuary 1905

It is not that marriage records don't exist from 1878 to 1885, it is the fact that the Commonwealth did not require a license to marry. That changed in Oct. 1885 when the counties began to issue them. Prior to 1885 one needs to look at registers from many sources such as a church or parrish record, or that of an alderman or Justice of the Peace. Sometimes you can get lucky and find an announcement of marriage in a newspaper of the day, or an important anniversary (25th, 30th, or 50th); sometimes even unusual anniversary dates (13th, 18th, 31st...) made the newspapers for unexplainable reasons. Such work is tedious and often doesn't bear fruit however. As to tax records, if it is your hope to find them listed as man and wife, you will surely be disappointed. IF the records still exist, they would be like an accountant's ledger. There is not much of genealogical value contained in them, but they can sometimes suggest solutions to mysteries. Such lists may indicate that several brothers showed up similtaneously where otherwise you have no proof of connection; a notation may indicate that a person moved, or died, since the previous assessment. Usually only men were taxed as they owned property. Freeholders (property owners), tennants, and single men are the common categories given in the annual state and county tax registers, along with a description of the property and its assesed value. One clear lot, a small wood frame house of good condition, male dogs, a watch, horses and buggys were among items that were taxable, as was income. Often they would list if the person was elligble to serve in a local militia. Triennnial State assesments were perfomed every three years (1841, 1871, 1892 are among the years that I have seen in records from Dauphin and Schuylkill county). There are tax lists at the PA State Archive for some of the Luzerne county communities, but none for those places which later became part of Lackawanna County. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jason Ferguson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 01, 2005 7:13 AM Subject: [PA-LAC] Scranton/Lackawanna Tax Lists: Do They Exist? > As far as I can tell, no marriage records seem to exist from 1878 to > about 1885, but I am wondering if there are any tax lists for that > period? I'm still trying to find Thomas Ferguson and Martha Connor > (who married in 1884) any way that I can. I tried the local Catholic > Church (St Patrick's), but had no luck and don't know which other one > to try. > > Jason > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Search the Lackawanna pages: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html > To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/mailist.html#unsubscribe > > >

As far as I can tell, no marriage records seem to exist from 1878 to about 1885, but I am wondering if there are any tax lists for that period? I'm still trying to find Thomas Ferguson and Martha Connor (who married in 1884) any way that I can. I tried the local Catholic Church (St Patrick's), but had no luck and don't know which other one to try. Jason

Hi, if some one is at the Scranton Library and could lookup and copy 3 obituaries for me, I'd really appreciate it. Of course I'd be happy to pay the cost of the copies and the mailing to get my hands on these. I'm looking for James Forrester or Forestal - died November 1897 (buried on the 9th and for some reason I think died on the 5th) Marcella Manning (or Mannion) Forrester died April 1905 (buried April 22). Marcella Forrester died April 1910 buried April 7. I'd appreciate any help. I keep planning a trip to Scranton and life keeps getting in the way. Thanks so much. Beth Cherkowsky Researching Bradley, Forrester/Forrestal, Donohue, Boylan, Manning, McHugh, Cormac, Manning, Fountas, Czerkaukus, Liaundanskas, in Ireland, Russia/Lithuania, Greece, Scotland and the USA.

Thank You! In a message dated 1/29/2005 12:27:36 AM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: counted 11 Rose names listed in the Scranton Telephone directory, 14 LoRusso names and 16 LaRusso names. This is only to confirm your thoughts that there are in fact individuals by that name in the Scranton area. John

--WebTV-Mail-29214-3087 Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Tina: I counted 11 Rose names listed in the Scranton Telephone directory, 14 LoRusso names and 16 LaRusso names. This is only to confirm your thoughts that there are in fact individuals by that name in the Scranton area. John --WebTV-Mail-29214-3087 Content-Disposition: Inline Content-Type: Message/RFC822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Received: from smtpinvite-3302.bay.webtv.net (209.240.205.170) by storefull-3232.bay.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:07:53 -0800 Received: from lists5.rootsweb.com (lists5.rootsweb.com [66.43.18.41]) by smtpinvite-3302.bay.webtv.net (WebTV_Postfix+sws) with ESMTP id 3244CE101 for <[email protected]>; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 17:07:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from [email protected]) by lists5.rootsweb.com (8.12.8/8.12.8) id j0T15XxW025353; Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:05:33 -0700 Resent-Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 18:05:33 -0700 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Fri Jan 28 18:05:32 2005 From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 20:05:31 EST Old-To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" X-Mailer: 9.0 SE for Windows sub 5005 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.38 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/13504 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] X-PALACKAW-L-Web-Page: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html Subject: [PA-LAC] Pacchetti, Rose, LoRusso (or any form of each) Hello Listers! Any out there researching the names of Pacchetti, Rose, LoRusso (or any form of these name). My lines are mainly from Conyngham Twp, Luzerne County, Nesquehoing Boro, Carbon County and word has it some may been in Scranton, Lackawanna County. I am interested in any and all info. even if it is not directly connected to me. I am willing to share info. Tina ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== Search the Lackawanna pages: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/mailist.html#unsubscribe --WebTV-Mail-29214-3087--

Hello Listers! Any out there researching the names of Pacchetti, Rose, LoRusso (or any form of these name). My lines are mainly from Conyngham Twp, Luzerne County, Nesquehoing Boro, Carbon County and word has it some may been in Scranton, Lackawanna County. I am interested in any and all info. even if it is not directly connected to me. I am willing to share info. Tina

In the booklet, "History of Dunmore Commemorating Seventy-Fifth Anniversary, 1937," published by the Dunmore Improvement Association the following is mentioned, perhaps it will help in your research. jho p.7-Indians "In the eighteenth century, Pennsylvania was inhabited by bands of Iroquois Indians who held this land for about one hundred and seventy years. The land now occupied by Dunmore was claimed by a tribe called the Monsey, whose chief was Capoose. This tribe appears to have been originally an off-shoot of the Delawares. Their habits and their history are so assimilated as to indicate a common origin. Both spoke the Algonquin language of the Iroquois - a language abounding in vowels and fertile in dialect - obeyed laws emanating from the same source, and both are intimately associated in colonial and provincial history. The Monseys, like every tribe were nomadic. However, Capoose chose the Providence township for his village, through what is now Dunmore Corners, up the slope to the summit of Moosic Mountains as his hunting grounds. The Monsey Indians were well-shaped and strong, having pitch black and lank hair, as coarse as a horse's tail, broad shoulders, small waist, brown eyes, and snow white teeth. For food, they made use of Indian corn and beans, flesh meat and fish. The crushed corn was boiled to a pulp, called by them "sappean." There was no set time for meals. Whenever hunger demanded, the time for eating arrived. Beaver's tails were considered the most savory delicacy. When hunting, they lived on roasted corn carried about the person in a little bag. The domestic habits of the Monsey tribe, when not engaged in warfare, were extremely simple. The labor of planting the corn and later of securing the harvest, fell upon the more submissive squaws. The Indians were skilled in the art of manufacturing, from flint and stone, implements for agriculture and the chase, elegant arrow heads and spear points; the rude pebble, and sometimes the rarer silex were shaped into pipes and ornaments of symbolic meaning, while bowls were fashioned of dry clay with an ingenuity never equaled by the white man within the stone period. The forest was stocked with deer and pheasant, duck, rabbits, moose and elk. The deer, as well as panthers, bears, beaver, muskrat and otter gave the hunters every opportunity for their swift arrows. The streams were filled with perch, pike and trout. Hooks constructed cleverly from bone, or nets woven from the inner bark of trees, or even the stone-tipped spear, which they threw with admirable adroitness at a distant of thirty feet, while the fish were moving rapidly, never failed to supply the wigwam with food. Capoose, undecked with the emblems of war, and not desirous of distinction or prominence, lived in amity with the whites, encouraged the culture of the soil, and left behind him a name untarnished with either blood or carnage." pp. 8- Early Settlers "We find that the first white man who ever set foot on Dunmore soil was Count Zinzendorf, of Saxony, in 1742. Upon his arrival in America, Count Zinzendorf manifested a great anxiety to have the gospel preached to the Indians, and although he had heard much of the ferocity of the savages, formed a resolution to visit them. When he visited Capoose in 1742 he named this county Saint Anthony's Wilderness. The Count, as a missionary, gave the Indians a practicable insight into religion he came to teach, by simply leading a Christian life among them, and when favorable impressions had thus been made and inquiry was excited, he preached the leading truths of the gospel, taking care not to put more things into their heads than their hearts could take care of. In 1754, the Dunmore section, together with the rest of the land in this part of the state was purchased from the Delaware Indians by the Susquehanna Company of Connecticut. This was the time when Connecticut claimed this land and tried to occupy it. This same land was claimed by William Penn and his settlers and there was considerable fighting between them and the Connecticut settlers. This was called the Pennamite and Yankee War and lasted until the close of the Revolution, when the United States Government decided in 1782 that the land belonged to Pennsylvania. In 1770 the Lackawanna Valley was divided into two townships; these were named Providence and Pittston. The area of each township was about 36 square miles. Dunmore was a part of the Providence township. In 1771, the first settlers came from Providence Township. They were originally from Connecticut, but there is no record of their names........"

In a message dated 1/27/2005 8:09:00 PM Pacific Standard Time, [email protected] writes: I was wondering about the Wilkes Barre Indian Reservation. Where was this located? I can not find any record of an Indian reservation in PA. Also, Cherokee were not really from this area. The Cherokee were from the Carolina area. The Cherokee were forced on to reservation in Oklahoma ( The Trail of Tears). The tribes in PA were the Delawares (Lenni Lenape), Iroquois Confederacy, and Shawnees. This is from the book "Indians of Pennsylvania" by Paul A.W. Wallace. The book is from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Ed, I need to go back and re read ( re find it first ) but I do recall that the Cherokee were in the region in the 1700s. This surprised me as I thought they were further south and west. The Deleware ( as you so rightly put it the Lenni Lenape ) were also in the area as were a number of other tribes too. Laurence

I was wondering about the Wilkes Barre Indian Reservation. Where was this located? I can not find any record of an Indian reservation in PA. Also, Cherokee were not really from this area. The Cherokee were from the Carolina area. The Cherokee were forced on to reservation in Oklahoma ( The Trail of Tears). The tribes in PA were the Delawares (Lenni Lenape), Iroquois Confederacy, and Shawnees. This is from the book "Indians of Pennsylvania" by Paul A.W. Wallace. The book is from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Ed

Does anyone have access to the index of the Scranton city death records? I'm trying to track down a death date for a Margaret Conner. She was married to James H Conner of 524 N. Bromley Ave, but I only know she died before the 1900 census (found her on the 1800). Thanks for any help out there. Jason