This message is being cross posted so you may received duplicate messages. There are no 'easy' research methods for locating your ancestors but there are 3 research sites that cover a good part of Northeastern Pennsylvania that will serve you. The managers of the three list...Elaine and Deb, Tom, and myself...are more than welling to help you with your search and we have decided the best way to do that is to have the three lists work together. Elaine's message below gives a brief description of what each of the Yahoo sites offer in the way of research for the Northeast PA sectors of Schuylkill, Columbia, Luzerne, and other counties surrounding these three. As Elaine mentions in her opening statement..."our ancestors moved around" and so must you if you expect to find them. Good searching... Shirley 1. Local Research Sources Posted by: "Elaine LaGreca" Date: Fri Jun 15, 2007 3:31 am ((PDT)) Group The Home Page at NePa Ancestors starts with these two sentences. "Welcome to NePa Ancestors. Many of our stalwart Northeastern Pennsylvania ancestors were born in one county, wed in another, raised children in another county, and may have died in yet another county." This statement is so very true! Each Yahoo Group develops its own uniqueness.NePa Ancestors finds census and ship passenger arrivals and has developed the Coal Mining Accident Database. "Mahanoy City Township" and the "Centralia" sites posts current news happenings, articles on history, surname data base, photos and obituaries. Both groups have a separate site for additional pictures concerning their area. The links to these sites are: Mahanoy City Township http://groups.yahoo.com/group/mahanoycitytownship their separate photo album page is http://new.photos.yahoo.com/sryan59mchs/albums/ NePa-Ancestors@yahoogroups.com http://groups.yahoo.com/group/NePa-Ancestors/ and centcony (Centralia-Conynghman History and Genealogy http://groups.yahoo.com/group/centcony/ We encourage you to join each group and use each group to assist you in your family research no matter which county your ancestors lived. NePa Ancestors is more than happy to help members find census in adjoining counties. Each of our groups is there to help in any way that we can to assist you in researching your family history. Elaine, Deb, (NePa Ancestors), Shirley (Mahanoy City Township) and Tom (Centcony) Yahoo Group Owners