Somerset County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

United States Pennsylvania  Somerset County  

Historical Facts
Named for the County of Somerset in England.

Parent County
17 April 1795: Somerset County was created from Bedford County.

Boundary Changes
26 March 1804: Cambria County was set off.

Neighboring Counties
Bedford | Cambria | Fayette | Westmoreland | Maryland counties: Allegany | Garrett

Cemeteries

 * Addison CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Altfather Burial GroundsFind A Grave
 * Alwine CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Amish Cemetery(New) Find A Grave
 * Amish Cemetery (old) Find A Grave
 * Amish Mennonite Cemetery#1 (formerly known as Oak Dale Cemetery) Find A Grave
 * Amos J. Yoder Old Burial GroundFind A Grave
 * Ankeny CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Ankeny Square Burial GroundFind A Grave
 * Augustine Burial GroundFind A Grave
 * Augustine Burial Ground (Fazenbakers Farm) Find A Grave
 * B. F. Bitner Farm CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Baer Burial GroundFind A Grave
 * Baker Burial Ground (Jefferson Township) Find A Grave
 * Baker CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Bakersville CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Baptist Church CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Barnes/Seese CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Barron CemeteryFind A Grave
 * Berlin Reformed CemeteryBillion Graves
 * Crossroads CemeteryBillion Graves
 * Custer CemeteryBillion Graves
 * Friedens Lutheran Church CemeteryBillion Graves
 * Garden of Memories CemeteryBillion Graves
 * Porter Cemetery, Hyndman BillionGraves
 * Zion Reformed Lutheran Church Cemetery BillionGraves

Church Records

 * "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
Somerset County Recorder of Deeds 300 N. Center Ave Suite 400 Somerset Pa. 15501 Phone: (814) 445-1547

Due to the lack of vital records for Pennsylvania, land records are an important tool in early Pennsylvania research. Land records will list the seller and purchaser of the property and may hide clues to family connections. Land records for Somerset County are available from the recorder's office for 1795 to the present.


 * Images are available on-line from 1985 to the present using the Landex system. There is a fee to view the images.
 * Record of Deeds, 1795-1902; Index to Deeds, 1795-1949

Maps
Ancestor Tracks has posted free downloadable images from the Somerset County Atlas of Surveys and Warrants Collected and Plotted as a WPA Project, 1939. This atlas located in the Office of Recorder of Deeds in Somerset includes maps showing the first landowners, warrants, surveys, and patents, but they are not indexed. While the physical maps may be in the public domain, the images we have taken of them belong to us and are not to be used commercially. We hereby give permission to use them strictly for personal use; please attribute to Ancestor Tracks.

Revolutionary War
Men living in what is now Somerset County (then Bedford County) served in the 8th Pennsylvania Regiment.

Taxation

 * 1798 - Pennsylvania, U.S. Direct Tax Lists, 1798 at Ancestry ($).

Birth

 * 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Births Ancestry.com – $ Index with images.

Death

 * 1852-1854 – Pennsylvania Deaths Ancestry.com – $ Index with images.

Web Sites

 * USGenWeb project. May have maps, name indexes, history or other information for this county. Select the state, then the county.