FamilySearch Wiki:WikiProject Pennsylvania/Tasks-Repositories Museums

WikiProject Pennsylvania Progress Chart  Wiki Project Pennsylvania Tasks - Repositories: Museums

Description
The purpose of this task is to find museums containing records located in a county and list their contact information, website, collections and databases for family history research..

Instructions
Please cite at least one source for each item you add. See Berks County for examples. See also


 * FamilySearch Wiki:Verifiable policy page
 * Help:How to add citations instruction page
 * FamilySearch Wiki:Source Citation Formats guidelines

1. To locate museums in a county, search the following websites:


 * Pennsylvania Federation of Museums and Historical Organizations
 * Pennsylvania USGenWeb
 * Cyndi's List
 * Google "[county name and state] museums"

3. For each county museum you locate determine if the museum collection has significant genealogical value. If so, add the following information:


 * Name of the museum. If the museum has a website, add the link to the name of the museum. See the example below. If there is no website link, bold the name of the museum.
 * Address
 * Phone number
 * Email

4. Add one or two sentences that discuss the strengths and peculiarities of the databases or collections of the museum.

5. You may also wish to include the following:


 * Rules for using the collection
 * Copy policies
 * Research help
 * Cost of entrance

5. If you copy a link and add it to the county page, make sure the link works. Do not add any broken links.

6. Some museums may also historical societies or libraries. If the repository is already listed as a historical society or library, you do not need to list it again.

7. You do not need to add state museums to county pages.

8. If there is a regional museum, add it to all the appropriate county pages.

Museums
Somerset Historical Center 10649 Somerset Pike Somerset, PA 15501 (814) 445-6077 E-mail: [mailto:c-sseese@pa.gov c-sseese@pa.gov] For information on genealogical research and library collections.

Hours: April 1 through October 31: Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday. November 1 through March 31: Open 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesday through Saturday.

Collection includes obituary and cemetery indexes, family files, online WPA cemetery index. Somerset County birth, death, marriage, newspapers, tax, estate, and naturalization records on microfilm.