Ancestry now has free-to-everybody WWI draft registration cards on line. People living in Lancaster, PA were part of Butler County then? That's what's showing on line. I was surprised! Connie

Hello Connie, You have every right to be surprised, as will everyone else be, who reads that Lancaster was at one time a part of Butler Co., Pa.! The PENNSYLVANIA LINE (1990) states that Lancaster Co. was formed in 1729 from Chester Co. and that in 1730 five hundred acres was formally laid out as Lancaster City within Lancaster Co. Sale of the first lots in Lancaster City, begun in 1734, required that "a sufficient dwelling house" be built thereon on any lot purchased within the city boundaries. According to the same source, Butler Co. was formed in 1800 from Allegheny Co., way out west in Pennsylvania. The PENNSYLVANIA LINE indexes all towns in Pennsylvania and does not show any town named Lancaster outside of Lancaster Co. I cannot guess how or why anyone would come up with the misinformation that Lancaster City was ever in Butler Co. Nelson R. Sulouff //////////////////////////////// ----- Original Message ----- From: Connie To: PALANCAS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 11:17 AM Subject: [PALANCAS] Lancaster county in World War I Ancestry now has free-to-everybody WWI draft registration cards on line. People living in Lancaster, PA were part of Butler County then? That's what's showing on line. I was surprised! Connie

I have one more possibility. Butler co. has a Lancaster twp. on its western edge. Townships are often identified in history books by their name without the word township following. The area of today's Butler co. in western PA was not part of Pennsylvania until 1785. According to maps in the "Pennsylvania Line 3rd ed." 1983 the area was purchased and was first part of Allegheny county in 1785 and organized in 1800 as Butler is today. Pat -----Original Message----- From: Connie [mailto:R.leaman@comcast.net] Sent: Saturday, November 12, 2005 12:18 PM To: PALANCAS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: [PALANCAS] Lancaster county in World War I Ancestry now has free-to-everybody WWI draft registration cards on line. People living in Lancaster, PA were part of Butler County then? That's what's showing on line. I was surprised! Connie ==== PALANCAS Mailing List ==== This is your list use and enjoy for genealogy.