Hi. The Hotel is no longer in business. I think the building may still be there downtown near Steamtown,but it's used for offices now. My step g grandfather had the Barbershop in the Jermyn Hotel at the same time. I'm sure your relatives and mine knew each other. He was George Griffiths. Sally ----- Original Message ----- From: bhealey <bhealey@msn.com> To: <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, August 31, 2001 7:01 AM Subject: [PA-LAC] Jermyn Hotel > Is the Jermyn Hotel still in business in Scranton? My web search found > nothing but historical items. > > My grandfather and grandmother both worked there around 1912-1913. That's > how they met. I had been hoping (foolishly?) that there would still be > something on file about them. > > My father also worked there, as an elevator operator. He told me a story > about when Joe Lewis came to town and, of course, took the room on the top > floor of the hotel. Joe's "entourage" and reporters all squeezed into the > elevator for the trip to the top floor. My father cringed because he knew > the old elevator couldn't handle it. As they neared the top floor, the > elevator slipped, I think it was a floor or two, and came to an abrupt stop. > He said you never saw a more concerned group, all brushing Joe off asking > "Joe, are you all right? Are you hurt, Joe?" Joe was relieved when he > finally got off on the top floor. > > ______________________________

thank you for the information.... the task seems daunting but i'm going to try it!!! am planning a trip up there in the fall and hopefully my eye balls won't fall out of my head during the search. (i made my first trip to the state archives and casting NO criticism i gleaned very little during that visit. the staff was most helpful but i surmise that they thought i knew more then i really did... threading the microfilm was a challenge in itself! knowing now what you said i'll restart. (they did tell me about the marriage license being indexed and i did look there for dunleavys but i only saw one or two names. i may need to start over and just advise them of my true ignorance). i keep thinking that this information will just "be there" for me; these folks are long dead, but the search sometimes seems frustrating. thank you again for the information. kathi

These are the terms I like to use: COMPOSITE is a combination of articles related to the same subject. They may have been on the same page, but were under different headlines. CONDENSED means the length of the article has been shortened. EXTRACTION means just the straight-foward facts. Sometimes lean enough to sound stilted, certainly most extracted information wouldn't pass a grammer check. TRANSCRIPTION is intended to be an exact copy of the article, corrections and comments would be noted in brackets [ ]. The Latin abbreviation (sic) interprets as "this is correct" , although the information may not be factually correct but that is the way the writer presented or entered the information, and the transcriber didn't introduce any error. Sic is particularly used to refer to spelling differences. -----Original Message----- From: AnneTullar@aol.com <AnneTullar@aol.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Monday, September 03, 2001 8:45 AM Subject: [PA-LAC] Newspaper Transcriptions >Thanks for making it possible for us to have easy access to the issues you >have/are transcribing. I'm looking for tips for my own next effort with the >Providence Register: I get what you are doing when you use the notation that >you have condensed an item, but what exactly do you mean when you note >"composite"? > >Re: July 19, 1889 Scranton Republic item about a new D&H railway station. > >Appreciatively, >Anne Tullar > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Visit the Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society http://rootsweb.com/~panepgs/ >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >

hello list .. lisa martin directed me to the list of papers and it might be the Evening Leader which was primary for carbondale for 1900 to 1903 but it is confusing with dates listed later, so can someone verify was the Evening Leader primary for 1900 to 1903 particularily to list a death for someone who died in carbondale bet 1900 and 1903? thanks joe callahan in north dakota

hello list.. does anyone know which was the primary newspaper for carbondale for 1900 to 1903. My great grandfather died bet 1900 and 1903 and I need to know which microfilm to start looking at.. thanks joe callahan in north dakota

Thanks for making it possible for us to have easy access to the issues you have/are transcribing. I'm looking for tips for my own next effort with the Providence Register: I get what you are doing when you use the notation that you have condensed an item, but what exactly do you mean when you note "composite"? Re: July 19, 1889 Scranton Republic item about a new D&H railway station. Appreciatively, Anne Tullar

I am from Minooka. What kind of book do you have. Jane --- JMURPHY426@aol.com wrote: > I have a book on Minooka. It may be the one you're > referring to. I'll have > to take a closer look at it. Matter of fact, it's > autographed to my father > by Steve O'Neill. > > Thanks for your input. > > Judy Murphy > Buffalo, NY > > > ==== 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:pieroth@ix.netcom.com> > To unsubscribe: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >

Hi Joe, Just wanted to tell you to keep up the good work you do for all. You have helped so many of us find the piece we need to our long lost puzzels and want you to know that without you and your staff, we would be waiting forever for the answers we seek. Thanks again pattierhard _________________________________________________________________ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp

My original estimates are a minimum of 536,000 names though 1995 and we have done only about 2,000 so far. Because of privacy issues, we plan to stop at the end of 1936, somewhat below 250,000 names. Just think that when we finish book 2 (the first half of 1886) in the next two - three weeks, we will have put just 1% of the data on-line; which is why you probably won't find what you are looking for. And we are proceeding in sequence, rather than jumping around; excepting (of course) any contributions. Since it is not possible to transcribe them that quickly, you must decide whether you will go to Scranton to view and use the index volume (1 A-H, males), write them at the Clerk of Marriage Licenses office, or seek someone to do the lookup for you. The first 95 books were placed on microfilm several years ago, and a copy of that film (but not the master index) also resides at the PA State Archive in Harrisburg. Additional microfilming continues with the master index vol. 1 (Oct. 1885 - Dec. 31, 1915) and several dozen docket books completed. This new series of film is available at this time only at the Lackawanna County Courthouse. The books which cover from early Dec. 1898 to Jan. 1900 are vol. 48, 49, 50, 51 and 52. They contain information for 2500 applications and may not be indexed in the front of each volume as the clerks stopped that practice after a few years, prefering to do only the master index books. This means a lengthy page by page search must be made if you don't use the master index's available only in Scranton. I'm not saying this to be discouraging, but you do need to understand the way this information is being handled, and some of the challanges presented in researching and transcribing it to the web. -----Original Message----- From: Joycn@aol.com <Joycn@aol.com> To: PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Sunday, September 02, 2001 8:28 PM Subject: [PA-LAC] lackawanna marriage rolls >my great thanks for the fine folks who took the time to transcribe these >rolls. >i realize that the list is not complete, but i'm trying to find my great >uncle, patrick leo dunleavy who was married less than one year in june 1900. >(from the census). his wife was named grace, (no last name) but she was only >16 to his 24. i'm thinking, since they lived in the mayfield borough, they >were so young and he had lived in lackawanna since 1888 (when he, my >grandmother, another brother and their father came from ireland) that the >couple married in lackawanna county... but i don't see his name~! >is there any other route i might take to try and locate these two? >thanks in advance. >kathi > > >==== 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:pieroth@ix.netcom.com> >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList >

my great thanks for the fine folks who took the time to transcribe these rolls. i realize that the list is not complete, but i'm trying to find my great uncle, patrick leo dunleavy who was married less than one year in june 1900. (from the census). his wife was named grace, (no last name) but she was only 16 to his 24. i'm thinking, since they lived in the mayfield borough, they were so young and he had lived in lackawanna since 1888 (when he, my grandmother, another brother and their father came from ireland) that the couple married in lackawanna county... but i don't see his name~! is there any other route i might take to try and locate these two? thanks in advance. kathi

Hi. I too have walked around Evergreen Cemetery in Factoryville. It IS in Wyoming County, and I believe the actual name of it is Woodlawn-Evergreen Cemetery. There is a funeral home directly across the street from the entrance. I believe that they have something to do with it. It is Anthony Litwin Funeral homes, 33 Reynolds St., Factoryville, PA 18419. Phone number is (570) 945-5646. You may want to contact them. They would at least know where you could go. Tom Price

Great work by all involved - thanks. Jim Dolan At 10:33 AM 09/01/2001, you wrote: >Tom Price has spent considerable time walking Pittston Avenue Cemetery >and recording the information from the ALL of the stones. He added >information from church records for his own relatives/ancestors. The >list is alphabetical, but each plot is kept together, with an >alphabetical cross reference to the name under which you will find a >listing. http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/forest/pittston1.html > >Rich Reese and Heather Tomlinso have submitted the first installment in >the project to transcribe the Lackawanna County Marriage Licenses Index >volumes. With this index you will be able to locate or request the >original with greater ease. Do keep in mind that the information is only >as accurate as the clerk who made the entries. The date of marriage, if >it took place at all, is not part of the index. > >It begins at http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/marriage01.html >Still available is Rich Reese's own data covering more years beginning >http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/marriages01.html > >The search engine has been updated for your convenience >http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/search.html > >Susan > > >==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== >Have you introduced yourself to the group? mailto:PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com >To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/index.html#MailingList

Another entery in the new branch of my family tree...any takers out there! Jim Dolan 1 Patrick J. Mahon b: January 1844 in Kilglass Parish, Co. Sligo, Ireland .. +Bridget ????? b: Abt. 1856 in Ireland 2 Mary Mahon b: Abt. 1877 2 Elizabeth Mahon b: Abt. 1878 2 Delia Mahon b: Abt. 1884 2 James Mahon b: Abt. 1885 2 Julia Mahon b: Abt. 1886 2 Bernard Mahon b: Abt. 1889 2 Vincent Mahon b: Abt. 1896 The Scranton Republican, Friday, 11 April, 1913, page 6: Prominent Resident Of Bellevue Is Dead P.J. Mahon, an old, well known resident of the Bellevue section of the city, died at his home, 502 Third avenue, yesterday morning, following a short illness. He was born in Ireland, but had lived in Bellevue since a boy. For many years he conducted a grocery business in that section of the city. Surviving are the following children; Miss Mary Mahon, a teacher at No. 16 school; Miss Leil Mahon, a teacher at No. 29 school; Misses Elizabeth, Julia, James, Bernard and Vincent Mahon. The funeral will be held Monday morning at 9 o'clock with a high mass of requiem in St. Patrick's church and interment in Cathedral cemetery.

I was lucky enough to add a new branch to my family tree. Now starts my search for 'lost cousins'...does anyone out there recognize a name from the descendants of Patrick Murphy and Mary Mahon. The family settled in the Bellevue section before moving to Pittston Ave. and points beyond. Jim Dolan 1 Patrick Murphy b: Abt. 1844 in Ireland d: April 05, 1915 in Scranton, PA .. +Mary Mahon b: Abt. 1848 in Ireland d: March 02, 1884 in Scranton, PA 2 Thomas Murphy b: 1869 in Ireland .... +Annie Murry b: Abt. 1872 in Ireland ... 3 Harold Murphy b: Abt. 1898 in Scranton, PA ... 3 Bernard Murphy b: Abt. 1899 ... 3 Maude Murphy b: Abt. 1894 d: March 27, 1898 in Scranton, PA 2 Patrick J. Murphy b: January 13, 1876 in Scranton, PA .... +Mary Cawley ... 3 Alice Murphy ... 3 John Murphy ... 3 Joseph Murphy ... 3 Genevie Murphy ... 3 Catherine Murphy 2 John Murphy b: Abt. 1876 2 Michael Murphy b: 1879 2 Joseph Murphy 2 Frank Murphy 2 Bernard Murphy b: Abt. 1881 in Scranton, PA

I asked for help locating the cemetery and Phil Oakley came to my rescue. He lives in Factoryville and went out to the cemetery and found the information that I needed. What a great help he was and I wonted everyone to know about that. What a good group of people we have on this site. A great big thanks to Phil. Jim

I have a book on Minooka. It may be the one you're referring to. I'll have to take a closer look at it. Matter of fact, it's autographed to my father by Steve O'Neill. Thanks for your input. Judy Murphy Buffalo, NY

Thanks Hank I'll try it. Patti in NJ

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Hi Class: My uncle Robert Walsh served in the Navy in WWII on the USS Alchiba (I think that is the spelling) is there any site which I can access to search old Navy/Military records? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks Patti in NJ

I don't know if the church owns or manages the cemetery. When I have that question I look up a funeral home in the town and call them. I have found them to be generally cooperative for questions on who owns or manages a given cemetery. I believe the Lackawanna Historical Society, Catlin House, 232 Monroe Avenue, Scranton, PA 18510 has a listing of graves at Evergreen. They will generally copy things like that and mail them for a nominal fee. Their phone is (570) 344-3841. I have spoken with either Mary Ann Moran or Don Rondomanski. Hope that helps, Jeff in CT