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Northeastern Pennsylvania Family History & Genealogical Data

Welcome to the index page for data relating to genealogy and family history topics for areas of Northeastern Pennsylvania, USA.
 
The area of specific interest includes:
  • The counties of Wayne, Susquehanna
  • Adjoining areas
    • Portions of the counties of Luzerne (Lackawanna), Pike and Wyoming in Pennsylvania
    • Broome and Delaware counties in New York.
A map of northeastern Pennsylvania
The map is a portion of that contained in the
Rand McNally Dollar Atlas of the World copyright 1900.

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Data from a number of topics is presented to help the family history researcher.
 
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Text from out-of-print and/or out-of-copyright texts relating to the area
Rhamanthus M. Stocker's 1887 edition of
The Centennial History of Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania
Including a surname index for some of the extracted sections.
Images of maps of the area as contained in the book.
 
Census data for the area. Updated 04 Dec 2004
The data includes all persons recorded (i.e.line by line) for each township, with a full index of the transcribed records (by census year).
 
Family history and personal ancestry information Updated 04 Dec 2004
More than 13,800 individuals and 4,100 family groups are included. Data is shown with URL linkage between the individuals and families. A full index by surname is provided.
 
Other local information of interest to genealogical or historical researchers
 
External Links focusing on northeast Pennsylvania
and of interest to genealogical or historical researchers
References for information from local cemeteries
  • Lackawanna County
  • From Cemetery to Tree Mary Jean has a host of other resources in addition to the data from many of Susquehanna County cemeteries. She has asked that her site NOT be confused with the cemetery indexing project of the USgenweb
  • Wayne County
  • Joan Francis has added information from many of the cemeteries from Pike County and the bordering counties in New York and New Jersey.

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