York County, Pennsylvania
USGenWeb
Project
(Family History and Genealogy)
(Cross Mill Historical Site - East Hopewell Township-©2008 FamilyHart)
York County was formed on August 19, 1749 from Lancaster County. It was named for Yorkshire in (White Rose) England. The Duke of York was an early patron of the Penn family. The county seat is York City. Adams County (1800) was formed from York County.
Questions or comments about this site can be addressed to FamilyHart , aka Don & Jeanine Hartman or Joan Young , your York County, Pennsylvania USGENWEB Coordinators.
If you have records pertaining to York County to add to our USGenWeb Archives, please contact Kathy Francis, who is the archivist for York County.
York County Maps
- York County Township Map (Today)
- York County Township Maps (Today)
- York Borough and Environs (Today)
- York County and Environs (1895)
- Atlas of York County, Pennsylvania, by Beach Nichols (1876)
- York County and Environs (1835)
- York County and Environs (1846)
- ADC Street Map Book - York County
- Township Formation Dates
- Pennsylvania County Formation Map
York County Genealogical and Historical Information
Online Records
- Online - Multiple Record Types
- FamilyHart Database (Over 719,000 names online, most are of York County origin)
- York County Government Document Archives Online
- York County USGenWeb Record Archives (census, cemeteries, wills, land records, etc.)
- Online - Census
- 1850 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1850 U.S. Census Mortality Schedule
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1850 U.S. Census Slave Schedule
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1860 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
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1870 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
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1880 U.S. Census York County Census
Extraction
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1900 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
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1910 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
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1920 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
- 1930 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed
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- USGENWEB Census Project - York County
- Online - Cemetery Records
- Harry Senft's York and Adams County Cemetery Pictures (100s of 1000s of pictures of headstones)
- Internment.net York County Cemtery Records
- York County Cemetery Locations
- Find-a-Grave York County Cemetery Records
- USGenWeb Tombstone Transcription Project - York County
- Pennsylvania Gravestone.org - York County
- Political Graveyard - York County
- Red Mount Church Cemetery (Near Wellsville)
- FamilyHart Graveyard Pictures
- Online - Church/Civil Records
- List of York County Churches (Pre-1900)
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Pennsylvania Quaker Records (Including Warrington, York
County) (1900)
- Online - Military Records
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Militia Rolls - 1783-1790, Bedford to York County, (1907)
- Online - Miscellaneous Records
- York County USGENWEB/Rootsweb Queries
- York County Lookups
- York County Bibliography
- FamilyHart DNA Projects
- FamilyHart Family Documents
- Online - Books
- General History
- The German Element in the United States, by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909)
- Memorials of the Huguenots in America with Special Reference to their Emigration to Pennsylvania, by Rev. A. Stepleton (1901)
- Memorials of the Moravian Church, edited by William C. Reichel (1870)
- History of the Eighty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers by George R. Prowell (1903)
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History of York County Pennsylvania from the
Earliest Time to Present, by John Gibson (1886)
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A Brief History of York County, by George R. Prowell
(1906)
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History of York County Pennsylvania, Vol 1, by
George R. Prowell (1907)
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History of York County Pennsylvania, Vol. 2
(Biographies), by George R. Prowell (1907)
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History of Lancaster and York Counties, by Israel
Daniel Rupp (1845)
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Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania and York
County in the Revolution, by George R Prowell (1914)
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The Beginnings of the German Element in York County,
Pennsylvania, by Abdel Ross Wentz (1916)
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York County and the World War by Cliford J Hill and
John P Lehn (1920)
- Documents
- Returns of Taxables of the County of York for the Years 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783; edited by William Henry Engle (1898)
- The York Legal Record, Vol. 24 (1911)
- The York Legal Record, Vol. 28 (1914)
- The York Legal Record, Vol. 35 (1921)
- The Proceedings and Collections of the Historical Society of York County, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1902
- FamilyHart Family Documents
- Family Histories and Genealogies
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History of York County Pennsylvania, Vol. 2
(Biographies), by George R. Prowell (1907)
- A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and Other Townships of the County (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; many York families) by Ezra E. Eby (1895)
- Pennsylvania Genealogies; Scotch-Irish and German by William Henry Egle (1886)
- Descendants of Nicholas John by William John (1903)
- Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family, compiled by Margaret Compton (1911)
- Supplement to the Casper Glattfelder Record by Noah Miller Glatfelter (1910)
- Trimmer Notebooks
- Dierdorff Notebooks
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Our Strickler Heritage by Morgan G. Brenner (28MB
pdf)
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Frantz Henrich Gantz of York County, Pennsylvania,
his parents and descendants, 1686-1920, by Lou Ella
Johnson Martin
- York County
Blogs
- York County Heritage Trust
- South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society
- West Mancheter Township Historical Society
- Camp Security History and Preservation
- Susquehanna Trail Genealogy Club
- Historic York
- Hanover Area Historical Society
- Greater Dover Historical Society
- The Emigsville Heritage Project
- Historic Wrightsville
- Friends of Camp Security
- Northern York County Historical and Preservation Society
Other York County and General Resources
- York County Non-Web Resources
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York County Pennsylvania Genealogy at Facebook
- York County Office of the Register of Wills
- LDS Family History Holdings for York County, Pennsylvania
- Genealogy Collection of the York County Library System
- York County Family Reunions & Genealogy Meetings
- How to Request a Vital Record in Pennsylvania
- York Daily Record History Section
- National Register of Historic Places - York County
- Early York and Adams County Land Records
- Bachman Valley and Manheim Township Website
- York County Government Offices
- York County Libraries
- Pennsylvania State Archives
- Rootsweb's Guide to Genealogy
- Hiring a Professional Genealogist
- Copyright Fundamentals for Genealogy
- LDS York 2nd Ward Family History Newsletters
- Podcasts, Webcasts, and Internet TV
York County Historical Photos
Warning: These pages contain graphic files which may be very large!
- Gladfelter's School (1896)
- Green Hill School (1889)
- Shaffers School (1908)
- Fulton-Stewart Famly Members and others
- A. W. Wambaugh Store (abt 1900)
- Miscellaneous Postcards
- Mark's School (1949/50)
- FamilyHart Database Family Pictures
If you have any historical York County pictures of people or places to add, drop FamilyHart a line.
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York County Family Genealogy Websites
- FamilyHart Database (Over 719,000 names online, most are of York County origin)
- FamilyHart DNA Projects
- The Casper Glattfelder Association of America
- The Spangler Family Homepage
- The Flinchbaugh/Flinspach Page
- Bonnie's Genealogy (Mower)
- The Wambaugh Family Home Page
- Vanessa Stern's Genealogy (Rudisill, Sponseller, Deardorff and Allied Families)
- Bachman Valley, MD and Southern York County Families
- The Hans and Hannah Wenger Genealogy Project
- Stough-Stauch-Stouch Family
- The Proudfit Family
- Geesey Family Genealogical Research
- Descendants of Christian Figdore
- Stewart and Boyd Families
- Mumma-Moomaw Family Page
- Anstine Family Genealogy
- NTaber's Genealogy Source Records (Busey/Roland/Zumbrun)
- Ludwig Waldemeyer Descendants
- Forney & Clark Genealogy Pages
- Emenheiser Family Connections
- Tom and Fred's York County Ancestors
- Klinedinst Tribal Pages
- Jim's Genealogy Page (Taylor, Walker, Barnett, et al)
If you have a family website for York County that you would like added here, please send a note to FamilyHart.
York County Neighbors
York County Today
- York County Convention and Visitors Bureau
- InYork.com
- The York Daily Record
- The York Dispatch and Sunday News
- WARM 103 FM
- Central Market in York
- York County Parks and Recreation
Pennsylvania Resources
- Pennsylvania Roots Network
- Pennsylvania Dutch Family History
- Pennsylvania Digital Archives
- Pennsylvania USGENWEB Project
- Ancestral Quest Genealogy Software
Other FamilyHart Sites
- Pennsylvania Dutch Family History
- Midatlantic Roots Network
- FamilyHart Pennsylvania Dutch Family Pages and Database
- Adams County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb Project
- Franklin County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb Project
- Lancaster County, Pennsylvania USGenWeb Project
- Frederick County, Maryland USGenWeb Project
- Washington County, Maryland USGenWeb Project
- FamilyHart's Garrett County, Maryland
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