Cambria County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

United States   Pennsylvania    Cambria County

Parent Counties
26 March 1804: Cambria County was created from Bedford, Somerset, and Huntingdon Counties.

==== Boundary Changes ====


 * Prior to 1771: Future Cambria County was part of Cumberland County.
 * 9 March 1771: Bedford County (including the area of future Cambria County) was created from Cumberland County.
 * 20 September 1787: When Huntingdon County was carved from Bedford County, half of Cambria County was part of Huntingdon County and half remained in Bedford County.
 * 17 April 1795: When Somerset County was formed from Bedford County, half of Cambria became part of Somerset County while the other half stayed in Huntingdon County.

Neighboring Counties
Bedford | Blair | Centre | Clearfield | Indiana | Somerset | Westmoreland

Cemeteries
Cemetery records often reveal birth, death, relationship, military, and religious information.

County-wide Database - Multi-denominational

 * 1708-1985 - Pennsylvania, Church and Town Records, 1708-1985 at Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $, free to members of the society; Also available at Ancestry.com – $; 7,542,774 entries. This database is incomplete for all counties.

Catholic

 * "100 years of the Pittsburgh Catholic Diocese 1843–1943". Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, 17:1. FamilySearch Library book 974.8 B2wg. Contains chronolgy, map, county-by-county information.

Land and Property
Recorder of Deeds 200 South Center St. Ebensburg, PA 15931 Phone: (814) 472-1473


 * Deeds, 1869-1886

Maps

 * Cambria County maps, including the 1890 atlas showing land owners, have been posted at the PAGenWeb site

Newspapers
Johnstown


 * Tribune Democrat

Ebensburg


 * Mountaineer Herald

Courthouse
County Courthouse 200 South Center Street Ebensburg, PA 15931 Phone: (814) 472-5440

Family History Centers

 * Introduction to LDS Family History Centers
 * Johnstown Pennsylvania Family History Center

Societies

 * Cambria County Historical Society
 * Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

Divorce
Divorce records area available through the office of the Prothonotary. Since there is no on-line index, you can search the index at the Porthonotary's office. The office of the Prothontary is located at: Office of the Prothonoary 200 South Center St. Ebensburg, PA 15931 Phone: (814) 472-1638 Fax: (814) 472-5632

Web Sites

 * Linkpendium - Cambria County
 * USGenWeb project