According to this link, miners were sometimes recruited at the port of entry. http://72.14.209.104/search?q=cache:sBS55DLhquoJ:www.lib.iup.edu/spec_coll/iupmag.html+scotland+coal+miners+western+pa&hl=en&gl=us&ct=clnk&cd=4 Dawne ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann HeInz" <agatha1@flash.net> To: <PAWESTMO-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, May 16, 2006 11:27 AM Subject: [PAWESTMO-L] Scotch and Irish miners > I have found many young Scotch and Irish coal miners located in several > small towns along the Youghiogheny River in the 1850's. > Has anyone done research on these miners and families? Are there any > materials , books or papers on this group? > I am especially interested in where they came from prior to > Westmoreland, when they arrived (though many of the miners on the 1860 > census claim birth in Scotland or Ireland), and how they were recruited. > My great grandfather is among this group from 1850's on through the > Civil War. His father also seems to be a miner or rock worker and in > Cumberland county in 1835. > I would appreciate any help on this. > Ann > agatha@flash.net > > > ==== PAWESTMO Mailing List ==== > > > >