Cambria County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

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

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

Maps

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

Web Sites

 * Linkpendium - Cambria County
 * USGenWeb project
 * Family History Library Catalog
 * Sonneborn, Sylvia, editor, "Born Barefoot, " Barefoot Family of Bedford, Somerset, and Cambria Counties, Pennsylvania Blog, Six linked blogs containing the Barefoot Reunion Association newsletters from 1999 to 2009 with yearly Barefoot Family obituaries, social news, photos, ancestor spotlights, and family history articles. Access all 6 blogs through links on the first blog at http://barefoot-family.blogspot.com/