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Welcome
to Montour County, PA!
Welcome to the
Montour County Genealogical Society's home page. We’re glad you
stopped by to see us. Our goal is to provide Montour County researchers
with tools and data valuable in your quest to discover your heritage.
Please browse our site using the tabs on the left and come back often. We
will continue to add information as we develop our resources. To go directly to MCGS
research resources and the MCGS Genealogy Room library
click here. Off-site links
to Montour County Queries Boards are on the
links page. Returning visitors, welcome back!
To save you some time, we have a "What's New" page with
links to new additions. Meetings and membership information are on the
About Us page. You'll find helpful books
and gift items as well as information on how to submit a research request or
lookup from the
Intelligencer newspaper or Naturalization microfilm on the Sales & Services
page. Please e-mail us (info at the bottom
of each page) if you have any questions, suggestions, corrections or
contributions.
Please note: The MCGS Genealogy Room will be closed
Saturday, May 25, 2013 and Monday,
May 27, 2013 for the Memorial Day holiday weekend. Enjoy the time with
your families!
Where is Montour County, anyway? Covering just 131 square
miles, we are located in central Pennsylvania along the banks of the Susquehanna River approximately 70 miles
North of Harrisburg. Lycoming County is to the North, Northumberland
County is to
the West and South, and Columbia County is on the East. The borough of Danville is the
county seat. The photo on the left is the view of Danville from across the
Susquehanna in Riverside. Click on the tabs for more information on county & township
history or for an outline map of the townships.
Be sure to check out the links page for old maps.
The photo to the left is a view of Danville from across the
Susquehanna taken in May 2012.
We'd love to have you visit us!
Planning on visiting Danville for the first time? Links to
Visitors Information are on the Links page so
that you can plan where to eat and where to stay. The
Columbia Montour Visitors Bureau is helpful in
providing maps and other visitors information. If you have questions, just e-mail me
(webmaster) and I'll try to help. Let us know when
you are coming if you'd like to make special arrangements to use our research
library. Locations and hours of local
repositories are on the Research page. If you
can't come to Danville to research your family history and want information on
how to submit a fee-for-service research request, click
here.
Good Resource Books Available at MCGS
THEY PAID THE PRICE: Montour
Countians in the Civil War
After fifty years of compiling information on Montour Countians who served
in the Civil War, Danville native Randy Hackenburg has recently published his
third book, THEY PAID THE PRICE: Montour Countians in the Civil War.
This is an amazing book containing 373 fascinating pages including Regiment
lists, photographs, maps, biographical sketches and narratives of action by
Montour County Units. My personal view is that it is exceptionally
comprehensive, carefully documented, and beautifully presented. It will be a
great help with research concerning anyone from our county who served in that
war, but even if you have no connections it makes for very interesting reading.
Mr. Hackenburg has B.S. and M.A. degrees in American history, served in the
U.S. Air Force, and for over 30 years was Assistant Curator and Photo Archivist
at the U.S. Army military History Institute at Carlisle. He has been interested
in history as far back as he can remember and during his college years wrote a
biographical account of Colonel Charles W. Eckman. His Master’s thesis was the
history of the Columbia Guards.
Click here for information on
how to obtain this book.
1876 Atlas of Columbia & Montour Counties,
PA
This 2010 reprint of the
original by F. W. Beers & Co. is available at MCGS.
This issue differs from the 2002 reprint, in that it has been reproduced in full
color scanned from the original images. The size is 11 ¼ x 14” and it is
bound in a hard cover with a gold embossed reproduction of the original title.
A full index of all surnames is included. For information on how to
obtain this book, click here.
 Montour
County and the American Revolution
by Randy Hackenburg
is available at the MCGS Genealogy Room or by mail.
This fascinating and well-researched hard-cover book contains 107 pages
including historical accounts of the participation of those citizens of what is
now Montour County in the Revolutionary War, individual biographical sketches
(you'll find many familiar names here) and company rosters, as well as beautiful
photographs. If you have Montour County ancestors or if, like me,
you just enjoy learning more about the hardy folks from this area who played a
role in the fight for independence, you'll surely enjoy this book.
The author, Randy Hackenburg, is a Danville native who earned
B. S. and M. A. degrees in American History from Bloomsburg State College and
served in the U. S. Air Force before becoming the Photo Archivist at the
U. S. Army Military History Institute at Carlisle, PA. He has done
extensive research on Montour County's participation in the Civil War, War of
1812 and the Mexican War. He previously published Pennsylvania in the
Mexican War: The Volunteer Regiments in 1992. For more information on how to obtain this book
click here.
The
data and resources on this site are provided for your for personal research and
may be freely used for that purpose. Any
reproduction or use of any material in any format for commercial enterprise or financial gain is prohibited.
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