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9/28/2008 Update: Brick Walls: Joseph Neely born 1790 - submitted by Art Neely - Many Thanks!!
Pre-1900 Storms Page Added: 1896 Flood Article
9/23/2008 Update: Newspaper Articles: Republican Compiler (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) December  8 1824, Pittsburgh, Nov. 24
Obituaries: Catharine M'Cool
Submitted by Nancy Piper - Many Thanks!!
Cemeteries: Tombstone Photo - Jacob and Sarah Mowry (1818 & 1819) - submitted Courtesy of Mark Pearson - Many Thanks!!
9/20/2008 Update: Military: Soldiers Awarded the Distinguished Service Cross Medal - WWI (Work in Progress)
9/20/2008 Update: Cemeteries: Lebanon Presbyterian Church Cemetery: Tombstone Photos - Andrew Russell Gault and Mary Ann Mowry Gault - Graciously submitted Courtesy of Mark Pearson - Many Thanks!!
Richland Cemetery: Tombstone Photos - Arthur Gault and Wife - Graciously submitted Courtesy of Betty Morrison Paradise - Many Thanks!!
Deaths: Deaths from various records (newspaper articles, obituaries, cemetery records, etc.)
9/18/2008 Update: Cemeteries: Jefferson M. E. Church Cemetery: Tombstone Photos - Mowry Monument, Bessie A. Mowry, Eda and Frank Mowry, Flo Allene Mowry, Harriet A. Mowry, Jacob H. S. Mowry, John and Mary Mowry, Emery J. and Retta E. Mowry, Sarah E. Mowry, and Mabelle N. Mowry - Heath.
Graciously submitted Courtesy of Mark Pearson - Many Thanks!!!
9/17/2008 Update: Obituaries: Mrs. Patricia "Pat" Dowling, Mrs. Anna M. Gault, George Gault, James Gault, John Arthur Gault, Mrs. Nancy Baker Gault, Thomas Arthur Gault, Arthurine "Rene" Jones, E. Warren Jones, Margaret A. "Peggy" Morrison, Viola M. "Tiney" Murray, and Mrs. I. G. Roseman
Wills:  John Mowry
Graciously submitted by Marji Turner - Courtesy of Betty Morrison Paradise - Many Thanks!!! 
 
9/14/2008 Update: Military: Civil War Exempts: Boroughs of East Birmingham, Lawrenceville, Birmingham, South Pittsburg, Manchester, Temperanceville, & Tarentum (Work in Progress)
9/7/2008 Update: County History: Photos: Clairton Steel Plant and Riverview Hotel
9/1/2008 Update: Pioneers: Collier Township and South Fayette Township
8/24/2008 Update: Obituaries: John Early, M. F. Hipple, Alice A. Roney, William Shaw, Mrs. Margaret Slatterly, Julia A. Smart, and Ellen Thompson - All donated by Sara Hemp!  Many Thanks!! 
8/14/2008 Update: Military: Congressional Medal of Honor - Mestrovitch
8/7/2008 Update: Newspapers: The Centinel - October 14, 1807 & October 21, 1807 - Many Thanks to Nancy Piper!!
8/3/2008 Update: Military: World War I:  Tarentum Area "U", "V" & "Y" Soldiers  (Work in Progress)
7/13/2008 Update: Births: John, Mary & Rhoda Hilmer
7/4/2008 Update: Military: World War I:  Tarentum Area "Z" Soldiers
6/29/2008 Update: Pioneers: Baldwin Township History
6/21/2008 Update: Military: World War I:  Tarentum Area Partial "B" Soldiers
6/14/2008 Update: Military: Mexican War 1846-1847, Pennsylvania Soldiers Who Served, A, B, & C Surname (Work in Progress)
6/6/2008 Update: Military: Civil War - List of Exempts - 9th Ward of Pittsburgh; Allegheny County Military Organization.
Miscellaneous:  Russians to America Passenger Records
5/19/2008 Update: Military: Civil War - List of Exempts - 6th, 7th & 8th Wards of Pittsburgh
4/19/2008 Update: Military: Civil War - List of Exempts - 3rd, 4th and 5th Wards of Pittsburgh
4/18/2008 Update: Newspaper Article:  A fearful calamity, 9/24/1860 - Many Thanks to Candi Horton!
4/5/2008 Update: County Histories: Sacret Heart Church of East Liberty Photo - 1877 & Pittsburgh Female College Photo - 1877
3/21/2008 Update: Civil War:  List of Pensioners 1883 (Work in Progress)
3/20/2008 Update: Civil War:  List of exempts
3/16/2008 Update: Miscellaneous:  German Passenger Records 1850-1897
3/10/2008 Update: Census:  South Fayette Twp. 1850, 1870 & 1880 Mortality
3/9/2008 Update: Biographies:  John M. Alston
3/8/2008 Update: Biographies:  Professor Thomas McCann, MD, John Dunlap, John M. Cooper, DDS, William Cowley, MD, Edwin W. Stowe, James P. Speer, William Thomas Howe, Thomas T. Kirk, MD, William Roseburg, Robert Bruce Wallace, Adolph L. Lewin, MD, Andrew B. Stevenson.
3/2/2008 Update: County Histories:   Presbyterian Pastors & Professors and Third Presbyterian Church Photo
2/29/2008 Update: Freedman Bank Records 1865-1874 (Most people were born and/or raised in Pittsburgh)
Old Photos:  St. Philomena Church in Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Post Offices
2/25/2008 Update: Pioneer:  Thomas Brown of Brownsville
Obituary:  Arthur A. Sexton
2/15/2008 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (W-X-Y-Z Names)
2/14/2008 Update: World War I:  Tarentum Area "A" Soldiers
2/10/2008 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (T-U-V Names)
2/2/2008 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (S Names)
1/29/2008 Update: Obituaries:  Hexter, Reich, & McDonald
1/21/2008 Update: More Biographies!
1/7/2008 Update: Biographies - too many to list.
12/28/07 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (P-Q-R Names)
12/24/07 Update: Calvery Cemetery Tombstone Photo -  Anna Barcal
Newspaper Articles:  Extraordinary Flood, Fatal Accident, Explosion, Riot - 1824 and Obituaries: Walker, Findlay  - Donated by Nancy Piper
12/20/07 Update: Newspaper Article - Destruction at Pittsburg, Pa. 1860, Obituaries - Rev. John Barker, D. D. 1860, William White 1860, Rev. John Black 1849, Constantine Antoine Beelen 1850, Trevanion B. Dallas 1841, & Article of a Will - Mr. Charles Brewer.
12/19/07 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (Mc-N-O surnames)
12/16/07 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (M-Mc [partial] surnames)
Estates and Wills Data - Newspaper Article for John Reynolds - 1797
1819 Pittsburgh Directory (J-K-L Surnames)
12/8/07 Update: Runaway Slave Articles -  James Snow, Samuel Rollins, James (Gerrard S. Boarman).
Deaths and Marriages transcribed from Social Directory of Greater Pittsburgh - 1905.
12/5/07 Update:  Various pioneers of Moon, Crescent, North Fayete and Bethel Townships.
12/1/07 Update: Biographies: Eugene Le Moyne Connelly, Rev. Lemuel Call Barnes, D. D., David Z. Brickell, Charles Woodruff Scovel, Dr. W. A. McGiffin.
11/28/07 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (E-F-G Surnames & H-I Surnames).
11/09/07 Update: Obituaries - FERGUSON, FISHER, FORCHEIMER, GLICK, LEVIN, MORGANSTERN, SOLOMON, STERN
11/03/07 Update: 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (C-D Surnames)
11/02/07 Update:  Gas Explosion Works Havoc - Newspaper Article - Dontated by Sara Hemp!
Pgh. Obituaries - BAYER, BERRY, CHRISTIAN, CLARK, DANVER, FASSBINDER, HOLLIS, MCDONALD, MULLEN, RILEY, WURTZ -  Donated by Ruth Sprowls!
10/28/07 Update: Famine Irish Passenger Records - 1/12/1846 - 12/31/1851
10/27/07 Update: Time Magazine (1926) Heinz Company - Donated by Dena Whitesell!
10/25/07 Update: Cemeteries & 1819 Pittsburgh Directory (A-B Surnames)
08/29/07 Update: Theft of clothing, capture, trial and conviction - all in 6 hours; Destructive fire (1823) - Donated by Nancy Piper!

     
   

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