A private collector is divesting of a personal collection of Clarion County and other Pennsylvania historical memorabilia. Some items are going to the Clarion County Historical Society Museum, while other items are being offered for sale below fair market value.

Proceeds from the sales will be donated toward the cost of maintaining the Clarion County Genealogy & History Web site and to acquiring or copying additional documents for transcription here.

The Clarion County PAGenWeb site went on-line July 6, 1996!

It's almost incredible: fourteen years!  We couldn't have made it this far without the spectacular support of all the visitors, transcriptionists, and others who have helped us meet our goal of providing the best, free, on-line genealogy and local history resource for Clarion County, Pennsylvania.

A few people must be named individually.  This isn't meant to overlook anyone.  It's just that these people have done amazing things over the years to make this site what is today:

• First and foremost, Nate Zipfel, who kept this site going when your Web hostess' life went haywire and who has provided free Web space and services to this site for many years
• Charles Reeves, amazing cartographer
• Tom Nagy, administrator of the Clarion mailing list on Rootsweb
• Arnold Kepple, historian of Callensburg and Licking Township
• Diana Roche, proofreader extraordinaire
• Lindsley Dunn, former director of the Clarion County Historical Society
• The transcribing queens who've helped in the past few months get massive data on-line
• The staffs of various clerks' offices at the courthouse in Clarion

To everyone else who has transcribed, photographed, e-mailed, or otherwise helped add to this site, we thank you.

Program booklet from St. Nicholas of Tolentino Church Sesquicentennial (1828-1978) Jubilee, September 9th & 10th, 1978

Transcribed for this site by Sherrie Rice Smith. We are grateful for her assistance.

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In 2000 when I was working on my mother's family tree with Clarion Co. ancestors I found it difficult to get assistance. I would order an obit, which took 4 months to receive. I basically threw up my hands and was turned off. Later when I made a trip to PA, I met Peg Kahle in a graveyard. She was wonderful! Then I met Bernice Rowe; she too was a delight. These ladies restored my faith in Clarion Co people.

Now years later when time permits I dabble and was so EXCITED to see your web site. Wonderful/Great Job, words can't describe how nice it is to see information about Clarion County and its people being shared.

Thank-you and to all [the volunteer transcribers] who have made this web site possible: Your dedication and thoughtfulness will help many people who do not have the opportunity to return to the area. It's amazing. Again, Many Thanks to All.

Pam

Transcribed for this site by Lyn Magill-Hoch. We are grateful for her assistance. Please note: This book has been divided into three parts for presentation at the Clarion County Genealogy & History Web site.

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