Hi Everyone! I am a member of the Mercer County Genealogy Society. Quoted below is a letter written by Beverly Liston, President of the Mercer County Genealogy Society. The letter was written in Feburary of this year explaining the society and their holdings. (The Historial Society is located in Mercer, PA near the courthouse and I am not sure of their holdings or hours). "The Mercer County Genealogy Society is a non profit organization staffed by volunteers. We are located in the Shenango Valley Community Library, 11 North Sharpsville Avenue, Sharon, Mercer County, PA. Volunteers are at the library on Tuesdays from 10:00 a.m. until around 4:00 p.m. During those hours all records belonging to the society are available for research and any help that we can give a person in locating records in our "Genealogy Library". Some of our resources are available ar all times that the library is open. We have other resources that are only available when a volunteer member is present. If you cannot be there on Tuesday, other times can be arranged by appt., usually on short notice. The regular library staff has a list of the telephone numbers to call. Dues in the Society are $10 per year. Dues include a one time search of the records for your surname (copying of pages is extra). A newsletter is published 8 times a year - Feb., Mar., April, May, Sept., Oct., Nov. and December. There are six meetings a year at the library - March, April, May, September, October and November - the third Thursday of the month at 7:30 p.m. A picnic is held in July at Buhl Farm Park. The Genealogy holdings consist of Cemetery Books for not only Mercer County, PA (which were done by volunteers from the society in 1970's and includes all locatable cemeteries in Mercer County, PA) but other local counties; histories from many counties in PA (many not indexed); family histories which have been donated to the Society; city directories (both books and on microfiche); Mercer County Courthouse records of marriages (1885 - 1946); deaths recorded (1893 - 1905); births recorded (1893 - 1905) and Delayed Birth Certificates. Microfilm of all the Sharon Papers (mostly are complete - there are a couple of periods in the early papers that are missing). Abstractions of the births and marriages in the early newspapers (1876 - 1920) are nearly 100% completed. Deaths have been abstracted from the newspapers (1876 - 1920) and 1952 to the present. These are all being computerized at this time. It is an ongoing project being done by the volunteers. Years between 1920 and 1952 are being worked on by the volunteers. An obituary can be found, if it was published in the Sharon Papers, copied and sent to you for a nominal fee. We have microfilm or microfiche of the following: Mercer County, PA census records; some church records of Mercer County; some funeral home records; miscellaneous Trumbull County, Ohio census records; various other county census records; Mercer County Poor Home Records; a few rolls of Ship Passenger Lists from New York. We will soon have our own web site and all the holdings of the society will be listed there. Officers are Beverly Liston, President - bliston@infonline.net Jane Rodgers, Vice President - bjr@infonline.net Toni Sheehan, Secretary Linda Dudzenski, Treasurer Loretta DeSantis, Librarian <lorgen@infonline.net> Paul Corbett, Past President Peggy Ruggles, Newsletter Editor A query can be advertised in our newsletter for $2.00 per surname for non members. Beverly Liston, President of the Mercer County Genealogy Society" I hope that this letter explains about the society and if anyone has any questions please write to one of us. BobWeso@aol.com wrote: > I have seen references to both the Mercer Co. Genealogical Soc. and the > Mercer Co. Historical Soc. I don't want to offend anyone, but how do these > two organizations differ? (I am told that the Gen. Soc. is open only on Tues. > and Thurs. and that the Hist. Soc. is open Tues.-Sat.) Are they both located > in Mercer? Does it help to belong to both? > Gretchen > > ==== PAMERCER Mailing List ==== > > Any questions/problems regarding the PAMERCER-L list, contact the > listowner, Michael L. Hebert mailto:mhebert.usgw@worldnet.att.net > Visit the Mercer County, Pennsylvania Genealogy web site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~pamercer/ > This list is sponsored by the RootsWeb Genealogical Data Cooperative. > Please help support Rootsweb: > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/how-to-subscribe.html -- Janet Stanko janets@infonline.net Look up person for all Mercer County, PA cemetery information. Also do obituary look up for Mercer County, PA. Please e-mail me for more information. Moderator for the Obituary Daily Times http://www.rootsweb.com/~obituary The e-mail newspaper of obituaries from around the world! To subscribe: send a message to: Gen-Obit-Request@rootsweb.com with the message: subscribe