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The Johnstown Pennsylvania flood was one of the worst natural disasters in Pennsylvania history. By the time the wall of water had subsided, 2,200 lives were lost, many more were injured, and destruction was rampant. The flood would impact the lives of the residents and visitors to that tourist area, much as the current Hurrican Katrina did in modern day.

A great resource for Kentucky state genealogy comes from the Kenton County, Kentucky Public Library. If your ancestors settled in northern Kentucky then it is possible that you may find them in this large set of Church Records from Kentucky.

Dunmore’s War Rosters: The only rosters preserved of the companies which were in the battle of Point Pleasant, or arrived with Colonel Christian in the evening after it had been fought and won. Also included, a list of defenders of the frontier in 1774, that did NOT participate in the Battle of Point Pleasant. This battle covered the early frontier area of Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and West Virginia.

Naturalization Records project that have been added to are:
Naturalization Petitions for New York 1844-1815. You can start your search in these records at

http://naturalizationrecords.com/usa/naturalizations.shtml

and just scroll down the page to the ones you want. This latest upload completes 1844-1851 Books 10-12
Also added to on the weekend were Naturalization Petitions for New York, 1850-1860 […]

PA Volunteers of the Civil War

has been reorganized by county and by regiment .

Passport applications are often a valuable source of genealogical information. NARA has passport applications from October 1795-March 1925. The U. S. Department of State has passport applications from April 1925 to the present. Passports before 1925 have been filmed by NARA and LDS church as passport records, passport registers, and passport indexes. NaturalizationRecords.com website has many passport applications and indexes for all USA online.  

The Ancestor Search website has a free genealogy database of biographies, biographical sketches and multi-generational genealogies of Pennsylvania residents.

Pennsylvania Biographies