Cambria County, Pennsylvania Genealogy

United States   Pennsylvania    Cambria County

Historical Facts

 * Parent Counties: Formed from Somerset and Huntingdon Counties 26 March 1804.
 * County Seat: Ebensburg
 * Neighboring Counties: residents may also have records in Clearfield (north) • Blair (east) • Indiana (west) • Somerset (south)  •   Westmoreland (southwest)  •  Bedford (southeast) • Centre (northeast)

==== 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.

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