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York County, Pennsylvania
(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.
York County Maps
York County Genealogical and Historical Information
Online Records
- Online - Multiple Record Types
- The FamilyHart Online Database ™ (Over 1 Million names; Most are of York County origin)
- York County Government Archives Online
- York County USGenWeb Archives
- Online - Census
- 1850 U.S. Census York County Extraction
- 1790 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1800 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1810 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1820 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1830 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1840 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1850 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1860 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1870 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1880 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1890 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch (very small partial)
- 1900 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1910 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1920 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1930 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- 1940 U.S. Census Searchable and Indexed at FamilySearch
- Online - Cemetery Records
- FamilyHart's Harry Senft Cemetery Pictures with Indices and Family Tree Links (100s of 1000s of pictures of headstones; Most are in York County)
- FamilyHart Graveyard Pictures
- Internment.net York County Cemtery Records
- FindAGrave York County Cemetery Records
- Pennsylvania Gravestone.org - York County
- Political Graveyard - York County
- Online - Church/Civil Records
- List of York County Churches (Pre-1900)
- Pennsylvania Quaker Records (Including Warrington MM, York County) (1900) 25MB
- United Reformed and Lutheran (Now Blymires) Church Register (1761-1830) - Pennsylvania German Society, Vol 8, pgs 155-196, (1898)) (1MB)
- Immaculate Heart of Mary RCC Abbottstown (Paradise Township, York County) Marriage Records
- Online - Military Records
- Militia Rolls - 1783-1790, York County (8MB)
- Online - Miscellaneous Records
- Online - Books
- General History
- The German Element in the United States, by Albert Bernhardt Faust (1909) 73MB pdf
- Memorials of the Huguenots in America with Special Reference to their Emigration to Pennsylvania, by Rev. A. Stepleton (1901) 24 MB pdf
- Memorials of the Moravian Church, edited by William C. Reichel (1870) 7 MB pdf
- History of the Eighty-Seventh Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers by George R. Prowell (1903) 19 MB pdf
- History of York County Pennsylvania from the Earliest Time to Present, by John Gibson (1886) 185 MB pdf
- A Brief History of York County, by George R. Prowell (1906) 11MB pdf
- History of York County Pennsylvania, Vol 1, by George R. Prowell (1907) 202MB pdf
- History of York County Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Biographies), by George R. Prowell (1907) 203MB pdf
- History of Lancaster and York Counties, by Israel Daniel Rupp (1845) 100MB pdf
- Continental Congress at York, Pennsylvania and York County in the Revolution, by George R Prowell (1914) 33MB pdf
- The Beginnings of the German Element in York County, Pennsylvania, by Abdel Ross Wentz (1916) 29MB pdf
- York County and the World War by Cliford J Hill and John P Lehn (1920) 27MB pdf
- Documents
- Returns of Taxables of the County of York for the Years 1779, 1780, 1781, 1782, 1783; edited by William Henry Engle (1898) 13MB pdf
- The York Legal Record, Vol. 24 (1911) 26MB pdf
- The York Legal Record, Vol. 31 (1917) 31MB pdf
- The York Legal Record, Vol. 35 (1921) 38MB pdf
- The Proceedings and Collections of the Historical Society of York County, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1902 2MB pdf
- FamilyHart Family Documents
- Family Histories and Genealogies
- History of York County Pennsylvania, Vol. 2 (Biographies), by George R. Prowell (1907) 203MB pdf
- A Biographical History of Waterloo Township and Other Townships of the County (Waterloo, Ontario, Canada; many York and Lancaster families) by Ezra E. Eby (1895) 102MB pdf
- Pennsylvania Genealogies; Scotch-Irish and German by William Henry Egle (1886)88MB pdf
- Descendants of Nicholas John by William John (1903)34MB pdf
- Historical Sketch of the Proudfit Family, compiled by Margaret Compton (1911)13MB pdf
- Record of Casper Glattfelder by Noah Miller Glatfelter (1901) 60MB pdf
- Supplement to the Casper Glattfelder Record by Noah Miller Glatfelter (1910) 4MB pdf
- Trimmer Notebooks
- Dierdorff Notebooks
- Our Strickler Heritage by Morgan G. Brenner (28MB pdf; Used with permission of author)
- Frantz Henrich Gantz of York County, Pennsylvania, his parents and descendants, 1686-1920, by Lou Ella Johnson Martin 52MB pdf
- York County Blogs
Other York County and General Resources
York County Historical Photos
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