Resources

The following genealogical resources are available only at the Huntingdon County Historical Society. For more information on any of the items listed, please contact the society at (814) 643.5449 or hchsmail@gmail.com.

  • Published regional, county, and community histories
    • Published works on area regions (e.g., Broad Top, Stone Valley, Warriors Mark)
  • More than sixty published historical or anniversary booklets about regional churches, towns, sets of townships, plus many annual high school yearbooks.
  • Death & Marriage index cards:
    • A 45,000+ name index maintained on 3X5 cards of deaths and marriages, most of them abstracted from the local newspapers, dates shown; with gaps.
  • Files of research, organized by surname (occasionally by full name), done by our staff or contributed by family historians or researchers.
  • Many published and typescript genealogies and biographical encyclopedias
  • Two hundred fifty plus printed or typescript genealogies and documented family histories, most centered on local families.
  • Civil War sources:
    • Full name index to hundreds of sources. In print or in collections, which mention Huntingdon County Civil War soldiers by regiment and company.
  • Locally transcribed Bible and cemetery records, and scattered church records.
  • Complete published Pennsylvania Archives
  • Tax assessment records from 1788-1899
    • Township tax assessment records (showing names and basis of assessments) digitalized from 1788-1833; microfilmed 1834-1899.
    • All areas which were included in the county in 1787 are available up to the date of their transfer to newer counties, where the records of border counties pick up.
    • We also have copies of a few tax records from Bedford and Cumberland Counties which were made of townships transferred into Huntingdon County in September, 1787.
  • Huntingdon County Census microfilm: 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920
  • 1890 Census of Civil War veterans and Widows
  • Census indexes for 1790, 1800, 1810, 1820, 1830, 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870
    • Printed census indexes: statewide, 1800-1850; local 1860-70; 1790 printed census PA & MD; other scattered transcriptions of Blair, Huntingdon and Fulton.
  • Abstracts of Naturalizations certified in Huntingdon County 1798-1832.
  • Estate inventories (part of probate files, 1788-1918) and some early divorces.
  • City directories (private persons and businesses) 1876 & 1911 county wide; others scattered 1888-1968), most of them for Huntingdon and vicinity.
  • 1,000+ locally-published obituaries pasted into scrapbooks (a few late 19th, but mainly mid to late 20th century); indexed by last and first name only.
  • Extensive collection of maps of all sorts; atlases 1856 & 1873; plat books.
  • The complete run of “Your Family Tree” (a quarterly based in Hollidaysburg but no longer published); with partial content index for mainly Huntingdon County and border regions (each volume is completely indexed by surname).
  • Biographies, autobiographies, histories of extended families (limited number).
  • Archived item (unique, fragile, out-of-print, photographs) limited indexing

 

Accessible to the Public: (these are the most important sources for historical and genealogical research that are also widely available to the public, either in digitalized versions or on the shelves of most of the larger genealogical and regional libraries).

  • Published 19th century state, regional, and county histories and sets of “biographical encyclopedias” (also a few which are 20th century, not yet online)
  • Complete set of the published Pennsylvania Archives (indexed) including Colonial Records series, containing correspondence, tax lists, militia lists, et.
  • Indices to wills and administrations, Orphans Court dockets, naturalizations and deeds (grantor/grantee) for Huntingdon.
  • Access to Newspaper archives.com
  • Access to Ancestry.com world edition