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HISTORY AND GENEALOGY RESEARCH
Also see our Genealogy - Getting Started page for some great resources.
Research Online at the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (Pennsylvania State Archives)
Chronicling America digitized historic American newspapers at the Library of Congress
Find a newspaper from Wyoming County
Closed Churches within the Present Boundaries of the Susquehanna Conference of the United Methodist Church - From the Archives of the conference, this is a helpful list of closed churches, their histories and locations. This link goes directly to the page for Wyoming County.
Directory of Pennsylvania Genealogical, Historical and Preservation Societies from Stephanie Hoover
Directory of Wyoming County in 1900 with map at Penn State Library
Endless Mountains Heritage Region - “To celebrate, preserve, and enhance the unique rural character and culture of the Endless Mountains.”
French Azilum in Bradford County, the site of an 18th-century French town of refugees.
Harveys Lake History - including the entire text of historian F. Charles Petrillo's book "Ghost Towns of North Mountain: Ricketts, Mountain Springs and Stull"
Historic Bridges of Wyoming County
Historic Tunkhannock Walking Tour - the online version of the historic district in the borough
Historical Markers in Wyoming County, PA - from the Historical Markers Database
Our neighboring historical societies:
- Berwick Historical Society - Berwick
- Bradford County Historical Society - Towanda
- Columbia County Historical & Genealogical Society - Bloomsburg
- Lackawanna Historical Society - Scranton
- Luzerne County Historical Society - Wilkes-Barre
- Nicholson Heritage Association - Nicholson
- Northeast Pennsylvania Genealogical Society - Wilkes-Barre
- Pike County Historical Society - Milford
- Sullivan County Pennsylvania Historical Society - Laporte
- Susquehanna County Historical Society - Montrose
- Wayne County Historical Society - Honesdale
- Wyalusing Valley Museum Association - Wyalusing
Wayne County Courthouse, Honesdale
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution - Tunkhannock Chapter [Facebook link]- since 1900
Tunkhannock Viaduct aka "The Nicholson Bridge"
Nicholson / Tunkhannock Viaduct, Nicholson, PA - Construction photographs, articles from the period and postcards from Susan Carter White Pieroth
Download forms to order PA birth and death records since 1906 from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, Division of Vital Records
The history and genealogy of Ransom Township and Newton Township, Lackawanna County, PA
The Ultimate Guide to Military Records for Genealogy from Genealogy Explained
Tunkhannock Historic District - a full description
Vintage Aerial photos of Wyoming County
Wyoming County PAGenWeb - the county genealogy page of the US GenWeb project
Wyoming County Message Board at Rootsweb/Ancestry.com
Wyoming County Newspapers from the U.S. Newspaper Directory at the Library of Congress, including where to find papers if they are archived
Wyoming Valley Civil War Roundtable, a discussion group to exchange views on the US Civil War
MAPS
Historical Maps of Pennsylvania from Harold Cramer
1869 Wyoming County Landowner Map - broken into townships and villages from Ancestor Tracks
1891 hand drawn birds-eye view maps of Nicholson and Factoryville by T. M. Fowler at the PA State Archives
1897 detailed Sanborn-Perris fire-risk map of Tunkhannock
PennDOT maps of Wyoming County (and many other PA counties) from 1912, 1941, 1953, 1967, 1983, 1990, 1997, and 2002
Pennsylvania Counties - their formation dates, lists of townships and boroughs, and links to more information; from Diana Gale Matthiesen
Pennsylvania County Formation Maps - animated maps that you can control; shows the 'big picture' of PA county changes
Tioga, Luzerne, Bradford, Sullivan, Wyoming, Susquehanna, Lycoming counties in 1872. (Walling, H. F.; Gray, Ormando Willis) at the David Rumsey Map Collection
Wyoming County Township Maps from randymajors.org Research Hub
Wyoming County USGS Topographical Maps of the county and townships from 1945
PERSONAL AND FAMILY HISTORY SITES
More Than Tombstones - Tributes to My Ancestors and Musings about Searching for Them by Martha Springer
The William R. Ricketts Residence: A History and Description by William R. Ricketts
The Black and Pickett Families by Jim Black
The Windemuth Family Heritage includes the ancestors of the Wintermute families in Wyoming County
E. K. Sturdevant (1825-1925) Photographer - is a nice biography of this prominent local photographer from Skinner's Eddy, from Richard J. Martz
If you have a FAMILY HISTORY web site that includes Wyoming County, please let us know so we can add it to this page.
CONTEMPORARY WYOMING COUNTY INFORMATION
Wyoming County - the official site, with links to all county offices
Tunkhannock Borough - the official site for the county seat
Wyoming County Chamber of Commerce
Wyoming County Press Examiner - county newspaper (with online obituaries) [Was "The New Age-Examiner"]
Endless Mountains Visitor Bureau
Search the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) from the U.S. Geological Survey
The Wyoming County Historical Society is funded in part by a grant from the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission