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Carbon County was formed from:
Northampton
MonroeCounties in 1843.
Neighboring counties are:
Monroe
Northampton
Lehigh
Schuylkill
Luzerne Counties.
Hi,my name is Barbara Lavin, and I am your county hostess/coordinator.
I took this site over from Adam Roberts on May 14th,1999. Hopefully you'll see
new and exciting things. Please bookmark this site as things could change
regularly. I hope you enjoy your visit and please come again.
County seat: Jim Thorpe (Mauch Chunk)
Many of our ancestors migrated to another county - generally one close by. Please try searching in the following neighboring counties.. or Schuylkill County maintained by Barb Lavin
We need your town histories!!! Please help us get them all-
we don't want any left out. All our Carbon towns and boroughs are important.
We need more on all of them - let's make this the best site it can be. To help,
e-mail me let me know which town you want to do and I'll add you to the list of angels.
You are cordially invited to sign up to be a Carbon County Volunteer. We could not possibly have enough wonderful people who are willing to help others to find Carbon County ancestors. We would love to have your help.
You may have an old history book with an index and be willing to check to see if someone's ancestor is listed. You might have Tax Lists, Census Records, Courthouse Records, Death Records. Someone needs your information.
Would you be interested in typing an index from any one of the old Carbon County history books? This would be a once and done, permanent help to all of us doing\ research.
If you would like to volunteer to make this page better, we sure could use the help! Please e-mail Barb Lavin
To do some of the volunteer work, you don't have to reside in the area. For some of the projects, the coordinators will snail-mail you the records to be transcribed, along with instructions. Or you could provide services for a project involving records that exist in your area. To learn more about volunteering to transcribe passenger ships' lists for the Immigrant Ships Transcribers Guild, who then upload the list onto their site on RootsWeb for all to access -- Click Here: ISTG - FAQ Read that entire page of questions and answers (just keep scrolling down the page). If this is something you'd be willing to help with, click on "Fill Out Application" at the bottom of that page.
The new queries will be posted automatically.
2...Enter your information exactly as you want it to appear. 3...Please, CARBON COUNTY QUERIES ONLY.. 4...Please TURN OFF THE CAPS. It's hard to see the surnames if your whole query is in caps
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Pa. State Archives beginning April 1, the name search fee goes up from $5 per name to $10 per name. For copies of warrants, surveys, and patents, the cost per document goes up to $1 per document, from 50 cents. Having problems locating your PA ancestors death date? Fee is $28 if you don't know the exact date of birth/death (they'll do a 10-yr. search). Make check payable to Division of Vital Records.
If you want a fast response, you can place a phone order
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For a death certificate, include: the individual's name, date of death, city & county of death, your relationship to the deceased, reason for your request, and your signature. Allow 4-6 weeks. If you know the date of death the fee is only $3.00, the same applies to the birth certificate as well that fee is $4.00.
There were regulations concerning birth registration passed at various times, however,up until around WWII, many people ignored these regulations, especially those who gave birth at home. So, if you don't find any birth record for an ancestor born before the 1930s, you can assume that there may not be a record. In these cases, if you don't have other evidence of birth (SS, death certificate, census, etc), you need to try church records.
Philadelphia City Archives
Orphan's Court files.
These files are guardianship proceedings. It is not always mentioned in the petition, but the guardian is often a collateral relative, either an adult sibling or an uncle or aunt, and the attorney who prepares the document is sometimes (but less frequently) a family member. Sometimes, the guardian needs to post a bond, and the bond is often posted by a collateral relative, but the relationship is not always stated. Each file had a petition for guardianship in it; some also had the guardian's accounting; some had papers discharging the guardian. These files were a genealogical gold mine. You could find: siblings, parent-child relationships; an illegitimate child (and the child's putative father): the date of death of a child ;and links between two families!!! One may be able to access these files in the following way. (Philadelphia is accessible) First, get the microfilm from LDS; look up the surname. The index will provide a year, a docket number, and a file number, so it will look something like 5438, docket 3, 1933. Write to the Orphan's Court, giving them the name of the case, the year, the docket, and the file number, as well as the date you would like to examine the files. In theory, these are NOT probate indices. There is a separate index to testate administrations (deaths where the decedent left a will), and a separate index to intestate administrations (deaths without a will). However, one of the references in this index was for a simple intestate succession administration. There was no guardianship involved, so no reason for it to be in the Orphan's Court index, but there it was.
More on Orphan's Court If the mother remarried, which often happened fast, then any property she owned became the property of her husband. They usually didn't appoint the step father as the guardian since his interest was thought to be contrary to the childs. The guardian was usually a relative but not always, often an older brother. If the child was under 14 the court appointed the guardian, if he was between 14 and 16 he could select his own guardian, those over 16 were thought to be old enough to manage their own affairs. In searching in Orphan's court you need to search for a number of years, often the estate would sit until the kids were old enough to get married, and then their would be a complaint in Orphan's Court saying that so and so, the daughter of so and so, who recently married so and so, begs the court to resolve this matter. Often the newly weds wanted the money from the estate to buy property and often that was just before they left for the frontier where land was cheapest.
Passenger Ships to Philadelphia The following indices can be used to retrieve data from the registers: Index Of Vessel Arrivals, 1862-1879, 1881-1882,1884-1890,1894-1937,Index Of Vessel Clearances, 1862-1863, 1879, 1882-1884,1892-1894, 1899-1907. 1915, and Index Of Coastal Vessel Arrivals, 1873-1878. Indexed externally, alphabetically by name of vessel. Microfilm for the years 1784-1800 available from the Division of Archives and Manuscripts, Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. Request information on purchase price. Location: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Division of Archives and Manuscripts, P.O. Box 1026, Harrisburg, PA 17108-1026
Author: Eyre, Manuel, 1777-1845. The firm of Eyre & Massey owned over 20 vessels, ranging in size from ships to sloops, and traded around the world, mounting voyages to Europe, the Caribbean, South America, China, India and the Pacific Islands. Manuel Eyre also served on the Philadelphia City Council and was a founding director of the Schuylkill Navigation Company (1816) and the Second Bank of the United States (1816). After 1820 he gradually retired from active trading and devoted much of his time to agriculture. He owned two farms outside the city and three in Delaware. He was the founder of Delaware City, Del., at the mouth of the Chesapeake & Delaware Canal, buying the entire site in 1828, erecting public buildings and dividing it into lots. The records consist of seven lots of Manuel Eyre's business papers, spanning the years, 1795-1847. Accession 994 (part) consists of shipping papers (1801-1802) for the ships OLIVE BRANCH and CHARLESTON PACKET and the brigs ARISTIDES, FAME, and NANCY trading with La Rochelle, Havre, Charleston and the West Indies. They include accounts, cargo manifests, bills of lading, outfitter's bills and agreements with captains. Accession 1003 (part) includes additional shipping papers (1797-1815) for the ship OLIVE BRANCH, brigs ARISTIDES and NANCY, sloop PERSEVERANCE and schooner EUTAW trading primarily with Hamburg and the West Indies. These are also 20 letters (1796-1803), mostly from Troup & Brown at Port au Prince concerning trade with Haiti, Amsterdam, and Charleston and 6 items (1797-1806) re Eyre's property in Burlington, N.J. A separate group of 38 items contains accounts and inventories of the Kensington Lead Works, established in 1832 by Franklin Eyre, and correspondence from manager Thomas Janvier to Manuel Eyre. Accession 1063 (part) contains additional shipping papers, checks, bills of lading, and customs house lists of goods imported (1801-1823). Accession 1097 (part) comprises 43 items, including a manifest for the OLIVE BRANCH (1803), correspondence re orders, accounts payable, promissory notes, bank drafts, and bills of lading. There are two agreements to rent properties in Delaware City (1827) and Philadelphia (1832). Accession 1144 (part) consists of 5 items (1796-1835): a letter of captain William Brewster on coffee sold (1796), Eyre's accounts with the firm of Eyre & Massey (1806), a letter of Thomas Janvier introducing William Peterson, an invoice of William L, Hodge to Eyre (1835), and a freight list of the ASISTIDES bound for Charleston.
Accession 1215 (part) consists of advertising circulars. Massey, Charles, b. 1778. Aristides (Brig). Charleston Packet (Ship). Eutaw (Schooner). Eyre & Massey. Fame (Brig). Kensington Lead Works (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Location: Hagley Museum and Library, Manuscripts and
For anyone in the Philadelphia, PA area looking for pictures of ships, the FHC in Broomall, Delaware Co., PA has a copy of the Michael Anuta book "Ships of Our Ancestors". The center allows you to make photocopies @ $.10 per copy. The FHC is located on Paxon(Paxton?) Hollow Road just off route 320.
Delaware Genealogical Society 505 Market Street Mall Wilmington, DE 19801 The Historical Society of Delaware has a microfilm of passenger arrivals at the Port of Wilmington
Go to the following website -- Naturalizations: Researching Philadelphia Records which is about naturalization records at the Phila. City Archives. Fee for copy of Naturalizations on file at Phila. City Archives (1793 to 1930): $4.00 per set of papers for each name searched. If the naturalization occurred after 27 Sept 1906, contact the INS through Form G-639 (see the end of that web page for more details). The Immigration and Naturalization Service (I.N.S.) has duplicate records of all naturalizations that occurred after 27 Sept 1906. 26 Federal Plaza, New York, NY 10278 NARA: Naturalization Records )
The INS in Washington has files on people who were nationalized after Sept. 27, 1906. If any of your family were naturalized before Sept. 27, 1906 then those records are housed at the courthouse in the county seat where the nationalization occured. The telephone number as of June 97 was 1-800-870-FORM. Ask for Form G-639 and make photocopies . The request is under the Freedom of information Act (FOIA), it takes about 6 months to get a return, also bring a FOIA request, you don't have to state a relationship.
The only neccessary information is Full name, Date and Place of birth
(Exact or Approximate). Any other info will greatly speed the process.
Mail the form in an envelope to: You should receive a letter from the INS/FOIA acknowledging receipt, the letter will have a CO# on it that you will need if you should call.
Sponsors then did the same as now - Sponsors tell the INS that they will be financially responsible for the welfare ($ or a job) of the people that they are asking the government to admit. In 1882, Congress passed the first laws limiting the people allowed in the states. This act kept out criminals, those considered "insane" and those likely to become public charges. Also by 1882, there was an agreement to keep out Chinese immigrants - this was called the Oriental Exclusion Act. By 1907 there was an agreement that limited the number of Japanese laborers to the US and that was the year that 1.3 million people from all over were admitted. Within 10 more years, Congress passed much more restrictive laws - such as a law that required that an immigrant could at least read and write one language. In 1921, Congress passed a quota law, limiting the number of immigrants from each country. That law has continued to evolve to today with the last major changes in the late 1990s from the Shamrock-L list.
IMMIGRATION AND NATURALIZATION SERVICE (INS) HISTORY, GENEALOGY, AND
EDUCATION PAGES
However, Not all of the World War I alien registrations were destroyed for all the states. For example, the Kansas registrations can be seen at the Central Plains Region branch of the National Archives, in Kansas City, MO. Check state by state for those Alien Registrations, because they are wonderful sources, and often even include a photo of the person.
An extensive list of PA marriages prior to 1810 can be found in "PA Archives," 2nd Series, vol. 8 (and/or maybe vol. 9). Early marriages can also be found in "PA Vital Records," Genealogical Publishing Co., Baltimore, MD, 1983. One or all of these have been microfilmed by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (LDS/Mormons) for viewing through your nearest LDS Family History Center. Those publications are secondary sources, they will indicate at which church the marriage took place, and they you can go to that church's record books (primary source) to see the actual entry.
Bonds were required by certain colonies and states. They were posted jointly by the prospective groom and (usually) the father or brother of the prospective bride to compensate the state for expenses incurred if the marriage was nullified. Bonds sometimes are the only existing record of a particular marriage They originated in England and were used, for example, if either of the parties was under age. As well as getting permission of the parents, the bridegroom brought a friend with him and they might have to post a bond to forfeit a sum of money if the marriage was found to be contrary to canon (church) law. An English source says that sometimes the name of the friend was fictitious and sometimes the bridegroom was not one of the two bondsmen.
The Sacramento German Genealogy Society issued the "German Card for Genealogical Research", plastic, folds into 2 1/4 x 3 1/2 in.,includes German script, symbols, terms, soundex and more. SGGS, P.O. Box 66061, Sacrament, CA 95866-0061. Useful and portable. Present Price unknown
"The "f" in the middle of the word almost certainly should be an "s" in the Gothic script that was once commonly used in German texts. The "s" at the end of a word takes the form of the "s" that you are more accustomed to seeing, but in the middle of a word the form of the "s" looks more like an "f" without the right side of the mark that crosses the letter horizontally." Since this time, I've also found the f/s use in handwritten documents. I haven't yet determined any rhyme or reason to when or where it might appear, but it's out there. Hope this was of some help.
For example why was "s" sometimes written like an "f"?
Bureau of Archives and History P.O. Box 1026 Harrisburg, PA 17108 sells warrantee twp maps which show the original land grants within present township boundaries as well as names and other information for the original warrantee and patentee. contributed by Rene Phelan
Keep in mind when dealing with an Abstract - they can contain lots of other information besides names, dates and legal descriptions. Often they contain transcriptions of Wills, Divorces, various lawsuits, etc.
If you have any additions or corrections to this list, please let me
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