Franklin County PA - Family, Education, Military and Miscellaneous History CollectionThis is a collection of various historical and genealogical reference works on Pennsylvania. These references cover 1000's of individuals, and are an excellent way to start or continue research focused on PA. This material was scanned from original publications and will be provided as text searchable PDFs (unless noted in description). These files can be read using many PDF reader programs (Windows Mac Linux), however Adobe Reader or Acrobat are

Hundreds of individual and family histories are sketched

as well as its residents

and in some cases give the name of their employer

who was born in northern Germany in 1910

a great blue heron

Otto Abbott

It also has section devoted to early settlers of the area and then gives more focused sketches on a number of prominent families in Townville's history

Surnames include: Auker

Horst (1/16/1854-2/3/1940)

General Marshall's Victory Report [Palmerton]

Broad Top City

He travels the world and relates these rich experiences in devotionals that are both interesting and inspirational