Lancaster County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb Project - Land of the Free Genealogy and Family History

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Lancaster County was formed as the 4th county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania on May 10, 1729 from Chester County. It was named for Lacastershire (Red Rose) in England. York (1749), Cumberland (1750), Berks (1752), Northumberland (1772), Dauphin (1785), and Lebanon (1813) counties were in whole or part formed from Lancaster County. The county seat is Lancaster City.

Questions or comments about this site can be addressed to Don & Jeanine Hartman
or Joan Young , your Lancaster County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Coordinators.

If you have records pertaining to Lancaster County to add to our USGENWEB Archives, please contact Abby Bowman, who is the archivist for Lancaster County.

Lancaster County Maps

Lancaster County Genealogical and Historical Information

Online Records

Online - Multiple Record Types

Lancaster County USGENWEB Record Archives (census, cemeteries, court records, land records, newspapers, obituraries, wills, etc.)
The FamilyHart Online Database ^™ (A Voluminous Number of names online, many are of Lancaster County origin)

Online - Census

1790 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1800 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1810 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1820 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1830 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1840 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1850 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1860 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1870 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1880 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1890 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch (very small partial)

1900 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1910 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1920 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1930 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

1940 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch

Online Census Records at Southern Lancaster Historical Society

Online - Cemetery Records

Internment.net Lancaster County Cemetery Records
Lancaster County Cemetery Locations
Find-a-Grave Lancaster County Cemetery Records
USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - Lancaster County
Pennsylvania Gravestones.org - Lancaster County
Rootsweb Cemetery Records Database
Some Private Farm Cemeteries in Lancaster County
Political Graveyard - Lancaster County
Other Lancaster County Cemetery Links

Online - Church/Civil Records

Marriage Records (1730-1779) of Rev. John Casper Stoever (Pennsylvania & Maryland) (725KB)
Church of the Brethren Online Church Records
Rootsweb Court Records Database
Other Lancaster County Church Records
Pennsylvania Quaker Records (including Little Brittain)
Assessment lists and other manuscript documents of Lancaster County prior to 1729 by Henry Frank Eshleman (1916)
Chronicon ephratense: a history of the community of Seventh Day Baptists at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by Brother Lamech, Johan Peter Miller, and Joseph Max Hark (1889)
The Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol III, 1893 - Trinity Lutheran Baptisms (Lancaster) 1747-1774 (pg 191-292)
The Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol IV, 1894 - Trinity Lutheran Baptisms (Lancaster) 1774-1786 (pg 189-248) - First Reformed Baptisms (Lancaster) 1736-1769 (pg 249-292)
The Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol V, 1895 - Trinity Lutheran Baptisms (Lancaster) 1786-1792 (pg 173-200) - First Reformed Baptisms (Lancaster) 1769-1800 (pg 203-266)
The Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol VI, 1896 - Trinity Lutheran Baptisms (Lancaster) 1793-1799 (pg 251-283)

Online - Miscellanous Records

Lancaster County USGENWEB/Rootsweb Queries
Lancaster in 1850 - American Studies Projects at Franklin & Marshall College
Lancaster County Digitization Project
Online Digital Library Collections at Penn State - Lancaster County
The FamilyHart Online Database^™ (Many are of Lancaster County origin)
FamilyHart DNA Projects (Archived)

Online - Obituraries

Current Lancaster Intelligencer Obits
Archived Lancaster Intelligencer Obits
Marshall College Obits (19th Century)
MennObits
USGenWeb Archives - Lancaster County Obituraries

Online - Books

General History

History of Lancaster County: to which is prefixed a brief sketch of the early history of Pennsylvania, by Israel Daniel Rupp (1844)
History of Lancaster and York Counties by Israel Daniel Rupp (1845) 100MB pdf
History of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: with biographical sketches of many of its pioneers and prominent men, by Franklin Ellis and Samuel Evans (1883)
Biographical annals of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: containing biographical and genealogical sketches of prominent and representative citizens and many of the early settlers, by John Franklin Meginness (1903)
Portrait and biographical record of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania: containing biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens (1894)
Lancaster County Indians by Henry Frank Eshleman (1909)
An Authentic History of Lancaster County, in the State of Pennsylvania by J.I. Mombert, D.D. (1869)
The Story of Lancaster: Old and New by William Riddle (1917)
Lancaster's Golden Century, 1821-1921 by H.M.J. Klein (1921)
Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania by H. Frank Eshleman (1917)
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magizine - various online copies
The German and Swiss Settlements of Colonial Pennsylvania: A Study of the so-called Pennsylvania Dutch by Oscar Kuhns (1901)
The Mennonites of America by C. Henry Smith (1909)
The Germans in Colonial Times by Lucy Forney Bittinger (1901)
German American Annals (Various)
German Pioneers by Ralph Dornfield Owen (1960)
Pennsylvania German Roots Across the Ocean; edited by Marion F. Egge (1900)
The German Sectarians of Pennsylvania 1708-1743, A Critical and Legendary History of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers by Julius Friederich Sachse (1899)
Pennsylvania German Manual for Pronouncing, Speaking and Writing English (1896)

Documents

Proprietary and State Tax Lists of the County of Lancaster for the years 1771, 1772, 1773, 1779 and 1782; edited by William Henry Egle, M.D. (1898)
Charter of Franklin (& Marshall) College (1837)
Life and Letters of the Rev. John Philip Boehm, Founder of the Reformed Church in Pennsylvania (1683-1749) By Rev. William J. Hinke (1916)
Palatine and Palatinate; and Annotations to Strassburger and Hinke's Pennsylvania

Family Histories and Genealogies

Pennsylvania Genealogies: Scotch-Irish and German, by William Henry Egle (1886)
A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and Other Townships of the County (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; many Lancaster families) by Ezra E. Eby (1895) 100MB pdf
Genealogy of the Barber Family by Edwin Altee Barber, A.M. (1890)
A Biographical History of the Becker Family by Leah B. Becker (1901)
A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Jacob Beidler, by Rev. A.J. Fretz (1903)
The Brubacher Genealogy in America by Jacob N. Brubacher (1884)
History and Genealogy of the Burgner Family by Jacob Burgner (1890)
A Brief History of John and Christian Fretz and a complete Genealogical Family Register to the Fourth Generation, by Rev. A.J. Fretz (1904)
A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and other Funk Pioneers by Rev. A. J. Fretz, (1899)
The Henkel Memorial - Historical, Genealogical, and Biographical; Edited by A. Stapleton (1910)
A Genealogy of the Hess Family by John H. Hess (1896)
The Landis Family of Lancaster County by D. B. Landis (1888)
Long Family of Drumore Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, by Warren S Ely (1909)
A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Martin Oberholtzer, by Rev. A.J. Fretz (1903)
A Family Record of John Michael Pfautz by John Eby Pfautz (1881)
Descendants of John Peter Scholl and Anna Susanna Dorothea Scholl by A. D. Scholl (1903)
A Record of the Searight Family by James A. Searight (1893)
History of the Descendants of Mathias Slaymaker by Henry Cochran Slaymaker (1909)
A Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Henry Stauffer and other Stauffer Pioneers, by Rev. A.J. Fretz (1899)
A Biographical History of the Swarr Family of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania (1909)
History of the Swope Family and their Connections by Gilbert Ernest Swope (1896)
The Life of (John) Conrad Weiser by C.Z. Weiser (1876)
The Zartman Family by Rev. Rufus Calvin Zartman (1909)
The Ziegler Family Record by Elder Jesse Ziegler and Rev. Daniel P. Ziegler (1906)

Historical and Genealogical Societies

Other Lancaster County and General Resources

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