Apparently there is a miscue in the URL I posted earlier. This is a follow-up message: Go to the U of Pittsburgh site at http://www.library.pitt.edu/libraries/drl/ Under the tab ""Find Books and More", will be PITTCat. Click on "take me to PITTCat Classic" Use the Quick Search and enter "History of Allegheny County Pennsylvania" and search by title. This opens a page with a list of holdings with that title. The second one shows its location as being online; click on that title and the next page that opens is your entry to the book. Scroll down to Contents and select the chapter or whatever you wish to see and voila! Pioneer Life, and Churches will be good chapters to start with. However, the search engine primed with "Presbyterian" will give you a great list of pages with the sentence using the word and then just click on its location (page .xxx) and you will have the whole context. This is the URL of this page. http://digital.library.pitt.edu/cgi-bin/t/text/text-idx?idno=00afq9167m&view=toc&c=pitttext Perhaps it won't open without going through the University page first. Hope this is as enjoyable for you as it was for me. Bettie ======= Earlier message: The URL: http//:digital.library.pitt.edu/p/pittext/ is the home page for the full-text collection of books on historic Pittsburgh that can be viewed online. One is a two-volume set of the History of Allegheny County, published in 1889. Absolutely filled with great information - sections on religion, churches, etc. Many of the early pastors are named. There are lots of other books, too. Well indexed, searchable, etc. You may find a lead to the church records you need. Bettie