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Welcome to Berks County, Pennsylvania
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My name is Vicki and as your Berks County, Pennsylvania host I try to post as much data online as possible in order to make it freely available to all. We gratefully accept contributions of raw data such as census information, marriage/birth/death records, obituaries, county histories, biographies, old newspaper items - anything that would help someone build their family tree!!
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Short History Reading developed during the 1740s and the northern inhabitants of Lancaster County sent several petitions requesting that a separate county be established. With the help of Conrad Weiser, the county was formed on March 11, 1752 from parts of Chester County, Lancaster County, and Philadelphia County and named after William Penn's family home of Berkshire, England. Berks County began much larger than it is today. The northwestern parts of the county went to the founding of Northumberland County in 1772 and Schuylkill County in 1811, when it reached its current size. - Wikipedia.com Please help us to help other researchers. |
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Surrounding Counties |
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Schuykill County (north) |
Montgomery County (southeast) |
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Lehigh County (northeast) |
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