Interested in finding out more about your family history? Interested in old photographs and newspapers? Here’s how to get started.
To begin genealogical research, start with Ancestry. Ancestry provides access to U.S. Census records, Pennsylvania Death Certificates (beginning with 1906), and military and immigration records.
MyHeritage also provides access to common genealogical records, such as U.S. Census, military, immigration, and foreign records. It also contains family trees.
As an Afflilate, there is access to limited resources. The popular web service has over 6 billion searchable names and 2 billion images of historical genealogical records—and you get the helpful assistance of library staff. This link is only available in the library.
History Commons (formerly Accessible Archives) provides full-text for county histories from all states, in addition to, a large selection of African-American and Women-specific newspapers. It includes other 18th and 19th Century resources.
Explore billions of newspaper articles from all over the world.
Contains special collections on the American Revolution, the Civil War, Slavery in America, and 19th Century newspapers.
Additional Resources:
Search the College’s Genealogy and History Collection
To access Cambria County Immigration Declarations, visit Cambria Memory-Immigration
Access Obituaries that appeared in The Johnstown Tribune-Democrat
Penn State University has many Pennsylvania newspapers available here
The Library of Congress’ Chronicling America also contains PA newspapers