Fabulous Geoff! Exactly what I needed - thanks for sending me off in the right direction - much appreciated. On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 11:18 AM, Geoff Crawford <geoff@innov8cs.com> wrote: > At 09:56 AM 4/10/2009, Loretta Lisowski wrote: > >Thanks so much Geoff! Was Fort Penn close to Lower Smithfield? > > Depends on what you mean by "close"? By today's standards or > during the Indian Wars? Fort Penn during the days of its > existance was the place anyone within many miles would go > for safety, with Fort Depui being the other possibility. > > > I am also > >looking for marriage, birth and death records from this area in the period > >from 1749 to 1770 which was prior to the family's move into the hornet's > >nest of what was the Wyoming Valley. Where would I find church records or > >tax lists? > > Any library with PA history will have the resources. Humphrey's > births books go over county by county the churches, it's basically > an index to pre-1800 church lists. Tax lists are fairly well published > and go back the furthest, but all you get is head of household. > All of those resources are at both the Monroe Co Hist Soc and the > Eastern Monroe Public Library which are going to be your best > local places to go for info. At the 1749 time frame though, > about the only church records you're going to get is Hamilton Lutheran. > > For more extensive resources for all of PA try the Marx Room at the > Easton Public Library. > > > Geoff Crawford > geoff@innov8cs.com > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PAMONROE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > -- Loretta P. Lisowski