• Updated photo pages 1–8. Added photo pages 9–17 plus Logging.

• 1809 & 1811 lists of men paid by Lycoming Co. commissioners for wolf & panther heads
• Memories of John Berfield and Washington Shaffer
• Folk stories of the region from Col. Henry Shoemaker
• One Clearfield Co. deed
• One Elk Co. deed

Click here for 1852–1853 Elk Co. births.

• Elk Co. Militia Enrollment lists from Benezette Twp and Ridgway Twp for 1864
• Civil War: Williamsport Cavalry list
• Civil War: Clinton Co. draftees
• Civil War: Lycoming Co. draftees
• Selected early Centre Co. naturalizations
• 8 pages of photos (indexed by surname)

Click here for 1852–1854 Elk Co. marriage records.

• Several Elk Co. wills
• Most of Elk Co. will index B
• Selected Clinton Co. Orphan's Court docs (indexed by surname)
• Cameron Co. naturalization index, books A, B, & C
• Selected Cameron Co. Orphan's Court docs (indexed by surname). See page 3 for a complete inventory of a widow's debts and assets. Includes a list of household items for herself and the 7–8 children who were still living at home.
• Clearfield Co. Will Book A index
• Clearfield Co. will abstracts from Will Book A
• Clearfield Co. wills (indexed by surname)

• Cameron Co. wills and letters of administration (indexed by surname)
• Cameron Co. deeds (indexed by surname)
• One Lycoming Co. deed
• Cameron Co. will index book A, listed alphabetically by surname

Cameron Co. family bibles on LDS microfilm: These family bibles are tucked away at the end of the microfilm Cameron County, Pennsylvania Tombstone Inscriptions, 1788–1967 (LDS film #902447). Most pages are too dark to copy and/or illegible. Your best bet is to order the film yourself and take a look.

• Hacket
• Summerson (John M. & Margaret Mason Summerson. Includes birthdates for John's mother, Elizabeth Shaffer, John, Margaret, children, marriages, some deaths.)
• Lucore
• Shaffer (James & Margaret Brooks Shaffer—but NOT written by either of them. This bible was put together by a 2nd or 3rd generation descendant attempting to gain entry to the DAR.)
• Hollen (Rev. Thomas & Elizabeth Overturf Holland)
• Smith
• Mix (James & Catherine Overturf Mix)
• Barr
• Cole
• Chadwick (Prudence Freeman Chadwick ONLY; wife of Richard)

(Check the Potter County site for more family bibles.)

Check this journal for updates and tidbits. Additions, clarifications, and corrections are welcome; please e-mail me if you can help.

Court documents are typed as they appeared—spelling errors, run-on sentences, etc. Please search for variations of your surname. Spelling was not a priority in those days, not even in court documents.

I hope to share on this site all the information I've gathered while searching for my ancestors (and as a bonus—my mounds of paper are slowly getting organized). My direct family lines include these surnames (various spellings): Anderson, Brooks, Burney, Calvert, Conaway, Den(n)ison, Emery, Grugan, Harkins, Harlan, Harvey, Heald, Hicks, Hollingsworth, Krebs, Lomax, Lord, Mason, Montgomery, Morrison, Murray, Nordheim [Nortum], Sexton, and Shaffer. They lived in these North Central PA counties: Cameron, Centre, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean, and Potter.