Centre County Guests

Signings in the Guestbook, 2002

For a look at the comments of persons who have most recently signed the guestbook, see Current Guestbook Comments.

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Name: Jeff Gregg
E- mail: jefgregg@aol.com
From: Albuquerque, NM
Website:
Referred By: Other genealogy page
Comments: This is a great web site. I wish I would have found it sooner. I am interested in information on Andrew Gregg III and Andrew Gregg IV, son and grand son respectively of Hon. Andrew Gregg. Especially any photographs. Thank you

Name: Terry A. Lyons
E- mail: tlyons@met- net.net
From: South Carolina
Website:
Referred By: Other GenWeb Page
Comments: I'm working on my wife's side of the family genealogy and have it back to a BAKER family from Howard Twp. Needed to know where to go from there. Your site was most helpful. Thank you

Name: Jackie Lucas
E- mail: lucasjac@aol.com
From: originally,Clevland, OH
Website:
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Comments: WOW!!! I found my grandfather's naturalization naturalization records. Took me 3 years, but I found them ! Thanks to you!!!

Name: Belinda Noyes
E- mail: bkay00n@aol.com
From: Oklahoma
Website:
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Comments: Looking For a Thomas Meyer b. 1820 in Germany d. 7/21/1901 Married a Maria M. Koffin b 1832 in Pa. d.1849 or 1850 both buried in Meyer Cemetery

Name: Carl Schreffler, Jr.
E- mail: cschre7235@aol.com
From: Bellefonte,Pa.
Website:
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Comments: I have enjoyed the site Thanks, Carl --------------------------------------------------

Name: Ann Berninger
E- mail: aeberninger@yahoo.com
From: Painesville, OH
Website:
Referred By: Word of Mouth
Comments: I found my great-grandfather's naturalization papers (George Safko). Thank you.

Name: Kimberley K. Skiles
E- mail: ladyecho@yahoo.com
From: Aaronsburg,Pa
Website:
Referred By: Word of Mouth
Comments: I did enjoy your web site. Unfortunatly, I couldn't find any of the names that I was looking for.

Name: Ann Berninger
E- mail: aeberninger@yahoo.com
From: Painesville, Oh
Website:
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Comments: Searching for my Safko/Smolko relatives in the Clarence/Snowshoe area. Great grandparents were George Safko and Annie Smolko. Their children were John, George, Andrew, Annie and Frank.

Name: Jack A. Miller
E- mail: theshadow@genext.net
From: Moses Lake WA.
Website: Cyndi List.
Referred By: Other GenWeb Page
Comments: I'm trying to find some information on my Great-grandfather. I know that my grandfather David Charlse Miller was born in Belfonte on 28 Jan. 1879. His parents were Isaac Stirk Miller and Sara Catharine Johnson. My grandfather was one of four sisters and one brother. If anyone can put me on the trail I would deeply appreciate it. Jack A. Miller

Name: David Manske
E- mail: MansDvd@aol.com
From: Sacramento, CA
Website:
Referred By: America Online
Comments: I was excited to find this site! My ancestors from Centre County were Huttons and Parsons'. I found it fascinating to find some history of the area in which they lived, from the 1770's to 1840's+...Thanks.DJM

Name: Harry C. Peters
E- mail: hcpete@mindspring.com
From: Black Jack Missouri
Website:
Referred By: Totally Clueless
Comments: Born Pinecroft Pa1922.Son ofWilbur and Ruth(Crider)Peters.Grandfather and Grandmother was Edward and Julia Peters who as I remember were farmers in Bald Eagle Valley.Aunts and Uncles were Claudius,Ada,Clara,Bessie.Retired from Army Apr 1961.I was overseas when both Grandparents died.Used to fish Spring "Crick". --------------------------------------------------

Name: William Frain
E- mail: stoneyfci@earthlink.net
From: Mill Creek,Pa.
Website:
Referred By: Other genealogy page
Comments: Good site, Looking to find the Frain family line with help from this site. THANK YOU --------------------------------------------------

Name: Sally C. Price
E- mail:
From: Orlando, Florida
Website:
Referred By: Other GenWeb Page
Comments: Have just started looking, but is interesting possibilities; am searching Snively from Acme, PA area

Name: Larry R. Heller
E- mail: hellerlr@aol.com
From: Erie,Pa.
Website:
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Comments: I'm helping my sister with our family tree and upon tracking past relatives to Centre County came onto this site. I wasn't able to find anything specific as yet but the general information found here was very helpfull along with the links offered.

Name: Christopher Kean
E- mail: christopher.kean@ses-americom.com
From: NJ
Website:
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Comments: My great, great, great, great grandfather, Geroge Kean, migrated from Centre county in 1802 into Venanago county. I am looking for more information on him and his family in Centre county prior to 1802 --------------------------------------------------

Name: Pam Gardner
E- mail: waynepam@alltel.net
From: Helen,Ga
Website: Typed in the county I was looking for
Referred By: Totally Clueless
Comments: Very disapointed,You have older records available in books for $20.00 & up/with no availability to see if names are there before purchase.please check Huntington County's site, much more user friendly & much more info on line & not charged for.Mass evan has the availability to order records on line for research purposes --------------------------------------------------

Name: Edward J. Schuller
E- mail: ednhazel@worldnet.att.net< /A>
From: Sanibel, FL
Website:
Referred By: Word of Mouth
Comments: This site looks promising. I will be back. I am just starting to do research in depth on the Safko's and Stasik's who lived in Clarence from about 1885 to date. --------------------------------------------------

Name: Joe Bartges
E- mail: joebartges@email.com
From: Charleston, WVa.,
Website:
Referred By: Totally Clueless
Comments: Just learning how to use computer and a search site. Using Teoma.Com Interested in searching my family back to the original 5 brothers who migrated into country from Germany in the late 1700's. Looks like I will need to go to the Centre Co. site as information not on the machine. Looks like you folks have a great thing here. Will check into it as needed. My family is from Colburn.

Name: Willie Scofield
E- mail: ststephe nswestyork.ststephenschurch@verizon.net
From: York PA
Website:
Referred By: Yahoo!
Comments: I am a direct descendant of Guyan and Elizabeth Irvin who are buried in the old Centre Hall rural cemetary. His daughter Nancy Davis remained in the area after my grgrgrgrgrandfather, John Wilson Irvin, moved to Shannon Il. The family later moved to Kansas. My grandfather, Matthew Riddle Irvin, moved to Sheridan Wy in the early 1900's and met and married Willie Edmona Babb in 1913. They later moved to Long Beach CA where he owned a grocery store. He passed away in 1951 in Long Beach and my grandmother died in 1975 in Stockton. My mother, Sarah Ruth Wasson, was born in Sheridan WY. She passed away in 2001 in York PA. So, the circle is now complete. I'm living just several counties over from where my first ancestors settled in Centre County PA. I'm especially interested in finding out the names of Guyan's parents and where they are buried. Guyan had two brothers: John and William. What little information I have regarding their parents puts their last years and burial place in Lewistown, Mifflin County, PA. Thank you.

Name: Claudia McGinley Bullard
E-mail: cbullard6@comcast.net
From: Originally - Key West, FL
Website:
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Comments: I'm relatively new to Geneology, and am searching for any information on the McGinley family. Most of my immediate family lived and still reside in the Bellefonte area. --------------------------------------------------

Name: Cloyd Alvin Tate Jr.
E- mail: microtaterchip@msn.com
From: Chicago
Website:
Referred By: Totally Clueless
Comments: Just lookin' for kin-folk......

Name: George W.Shivery
E- mail: gshiv23@hotmail.com
From: Gibbstown, NJ (Kennett Sq., PA)
Website:
Referred By: Other genealogy page
Comments: Researching SHIVERY family --------------------------------------------------

Name: Gaynell Smith
E- mail: mrsblacksmith@aol.com
From: San Antonio, TX
Website:
Referred By: Other GenWeb Page
Comments: Wonderful site! My husband's father was from Philipsburg--Leroy Calvin Smith, grandparents Frederick F. Smith & Bertha Shimmel, g-gparents Peter Smith (Schmidt) & Catherine Viehdorfer. They lived in Snowshoe and then Philipsburg. Bertha was from Clearfield Co. I've already found a lot of info at this site. Keep up the good work.

Name: Kelly Shaw
E- mail: kelly647@yahoo.com
From: Ohio
Website:
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Comments: I just received a death certificate for my GGGG grandmother Mary (Jack) Buyers. On it, it states she was born in 1815 in Centre Co.PA. Looking for the Jack family while they were here.

Name: Joyce
E- mail: jgswitz@aol.com
From:
Website:
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Comments: Am working on Daughenbaugh Family History. Am told the name is spelled over 20 ways. Martin Dagenbach arrived Pa. 1728. I have about 9/10 generations. Any connection?

Name: Jennifer Boone
E- mail: amrjenny@hotmail.com
From: Rome, NY
Website:
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Comments: I am working on my father's family tree. I am descedent of Miller, Musser, Vonada, Stover, Wolfe, Brown, Poorman, Hennigh family tree. I have all information. BUT I still have no luck with Boone lineage for years. My great grat grandfather Edward McClelland Boone married to Bertha Rebecca Musser on July 2, 1891 in Millheim, Pa. on their marriage license..it said that Edward's mother name was Mary Boone and no father name. If ANYONE know or have the information of Edward Boone's family tree please email me..... Thanks, --------------------------------------------------

Name: Marcellene Graham Davis
E-mail: dvsclan@hotmail.com
From: Washington State
Website:
Referred By: Word of Mouth
Comments: My great- grandparents, George Graham, Sr. and Barbara Milbourne, became residents of Centre County in 1830 - coming from England. He is written about in a Centre County History. They moved to Iowa in the 1860's but his brother, Edward, and his family remained in Centre County. Thanks to GenWeb and these wonderful County sites, descendants from five of George and Barbara's ten children have "found" each other and are enjoying sharing data and getting acquainted. Thanks for all your work making this possible. --------------------------------------------------

Name: DeLores Lyle-Lance Dupuis
E-mail: LANCED4559@aol.com
From: PA and CT
Website:
Referred By: Other genealogy page
Comments: Hope to take advantage of what looks like a well-rounded source. Impressed. Need to find records for my KENNELLEY/KINLEY family so will try to stop in Bellefonte on my way home to Ridgway in August. Will search your sources more throughly at a later time.

Name: Peter A. Huot
E- mail: huots@aol.com
From: California
Website:
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Comments: This is not a bad start but it is a long way from being useful to a researcher. You must visit some other sites and compare yourself to those. Potter County's Enchanted Mountains, Cameron County's site, Tri-Counties, all are way out in front. You need a search engine for your site so a surname can be quickly sourced. You need transcribed cemetery listings and all census lists transcribed. This is hard work and is done exclusively by volunteers, but it is getting done. In Cameron County volunteers tramped the ancient buriel grounds and systematically listed names, dates and relationships from each stone. They are all available on line. Some very nice digital photos of the final resting places of honored dead. All accomplished with love and respect. Those site are treasuries of information. Deeds, wills, and other vital courthouse records have been transcribed from the originals. Precious sources of information all available with magical ease though a keyboard thousands of miles away. Please visit those sites. By the way, the Cameron County Website is operated by a native of Emporium, PA who lives and works in Georgia. It is a work of love and only a spare time enterprise to him but it never stops improving. Warmest Regards Peter Huot --------------------------------------------------

Name: carol shank gary
E- mail: cgary@wpia.net
From: somerset co pa
Website:
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Comments: searching forMethias Shank married Julia Christner. His Father,Daniel Shank son of Samuel and Annie Fetzer Snowshoe, Co. Pa.

Name: Frances & Kelsey Smith
E-mail: KSmith9833@aol.com
From: New Holland, PA
Website:
Referred By: Totally Clueless
Comments: This is great! Kelsey's family is from Belfonte area and we have been to the Library/Genealogy room 2 years ago. We plan to come back and with all the info available here, we will be able to plan our research better. Thanks --------------------------------------------------

Name: terry a. lyons
E- mail: tlyons@meta- net.net
From: greenwood, south carolina
Website:
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Comments: Your site has been very helpful and I thank the volunteers who have helped put it together. --------------------------------------------------

Name: Barry L. Garbrick
E- mail: bgarbrick@yourinter.net
From: Indiana, Pa
Website:
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Name: H. Fan
E- mail: fanpl@msn.com
From: Ohio
Website: Google search on Haines Township, Centre County, PA
Referred By: Word of Mouth
Comments: Thank you for this web site. It has been useful to me looking for Willeman/Willaman who were here in the late 1790's to early 1800's before moving on to Ohio. --------------------------------------------------

Name: Kent Fosha
E- mail: vegaswings@aol.com
From: Atlanta, Ga
Website:
Referred By: Other genealogy page
Comments: I have enjoyed looking through the information. I plan to visit your area next week and this gave me a good feel for the area. Also, my great aunt is buried in the McGhee Family Plot of the Christian Cemetery in Centre County. Can you tell me where this cemetery is located or direct me to someone who can? --------------------------------------------------

Name: Stephen Bloom
E- mail: SBloom1059@aol.com
From: Cleveland Ohio 44144
Website:
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Name: Clinton Rodgers
E- mail: cccrodgers@alltel.net
From: Ashtabula, Ohio
Website:
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Comments: You have a really nice sight but I want to give you some informaton on my family. My great great grandfather was Samuel Franklin Spayd. He was born in 1864 in Centre County, Pennsylvannia. His father was John Spayd and his mother Julia (Yearick) Spayd. We found John in the 1880 census as a widower so Julia died before 1880 although we found out John had another wife Alice. John was born in 1838 in Pennsylvania and that is all we know. I am happy I found this sight off PAGenWeb. It is really nice.

Name: Louise Graham Luke
E- mail: LLuke4515@aol.com
From: Indiana
Website:
Referred By: Word of Mouth
Comments: Hoping to find where my Reichard - Shank families lived prior to Mercer County, PA. Very interesting website. Thanks --------------------------------------------------

Name: Jim Beidler
E- mail: jmbeidler@comcast.net
From: Lebanon County
Website:
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Comments: Great, well-organized page.

Name: Dale W. Blickenderfer
E-mail: Dblicky@aol.com
From: Massillon, Ohio
Website: jes44pat@msn.com (e-mail-Centre Co.)
Referred By: Other GenWeb Page
Comments: My mother, Elsie L>Markley was born in Scotia in 1896. I found Scotia once on a 1920 Pennsylvania R R map at the Trolley Museum, Washington, PA. Thanks for the memory. --------------------------------------------------

Name: Cecelia Orrison
E- mail: cborrison@comcast.net
From: Baltimore, Md.
Website:
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Name: Doug Ripka
E- mail: ripkadl@yahoo.com
From: Rabersburg, PA
Website:
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Name: Howard Boyd Jenkins Jr.
E-mail: jenkinsb4@yahoo.com
From: Sandy Ridge
Website:
Referred By: Other genealogy page
Comments: Just starting to gather family history on Jenkins-Heidler, Pennsylvania, Center County, Sandy Ridge. Have traced Jenkins/Bateman, Pennsylvania, Clearfield County, Houtzdale, Brisbin back to 1850. Jenkins to Wales and Bateman have been in Pa. back beyond 1850. Question - Harmsk was a female name that was changed to Anna in 1900. Is Harmsk Bateman Pa. Dutch? PS- I think your site is GREAT!