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1790 manuscript census records (posted December 2023)
1790 census of Bedford County, Pennsylvania (including what is now Somerset County)
Henry Boucher (posted December 2023)
Henry Baucher tombstone, New Centerville, Pennsylvania
Samuel Spangler (posted December 2023)
Full stock percussion rifle attributed to Samuel Spangler
Misc. Dietle (posted December 2023)
Dietle-related social cards, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Meyersdale, Pennsylvania High School (posted December 2023)
Meyersdale FFA photos, 1958 to 1961
Somerset County and nearby region (posted December 2023)
1954 Somerset County Sesquicentennial map added to map index page
Troutman (posted December 2023)
Signed percussion full stock rifle by Daniel Benjamin Troutman
Meyersdale (posted December 2023)
Meyersdale post card: Centre Street, Square and Band Stand (from Ralph Dietle)
Somerset County schools (posted December 2023)
Samuel Mier, Salisbury, Pennsylvania (posted December 2023)
MIER, Samuel, percussion full stock rifle with spurred trigger guard
Greenville Township sawmill (posted December 2023)
Photo of the Fuller & Knepp sawmill, Greenville Township
Allen Lester Korns (posted December 2023)
hand-cranked drill press, Allen Lester Korns workshop
Roy Dietle (posted December 2023)
Mt. Carmel Church (posted December 2023)
Pine Grove school (posted December 2023)
Pine Grove School souvenir
Nicholas Deitle, Greenville Township (posted December 2023)
Korns school, Southampton Township (posted November 2023)
I added a 1941 photo to the Korns School page
Lepley, Kennell, Stevanus (posted November 2023)
Color photo of the Lepley stone house
The gunsmith Jacob Mier of Somerset County (posted November 2023)
MIER, Jacob, wrecked full-stock rifle
Cook family, Southampton Township, Somerset County (posted November 2023)
Photos of the Cook farmstead on East Mineral Street near the Cook Cemetery
King family of gunsmiths (posted November 2023)
Gladdens School, Southampton Township, Somerset County (posted November 2023)
Current photos of the Gladdens School building
Early settlement in the environs of Cumberland, MD (posted November 2023)
A curious early road from Fort Cumberland to Ray's Town ( now Bedford, PA) (posted November 2023)
The Mystery Road (1,192 KB pdf)
Dietle/Deitle genealogy (posted November 2023)
I reorganized the Dietle/Deitle genealogy page to make things easier to find.
Simon Dietle (posted November 2023)
Photos of Simon Dietle and two of his daughters
Pocahontas School, Greenville Township (posted November 2023)
Photo of the children at the Pocahontas School, 1909
Harvey Miller family (posted November 2023)
Photos of the family of Harvey and Belinda (Baer) Miller of Somerset County, PA
Plank Road School (posted November 2023)
Photo of the Plank Road School, Somerset County, PA
Irvin Henry Dietle (posted November 2023)
Adam and Susan (Werner) Dietle (posted November 2023)
Miller book page update (posted November 2023)
Added a link to the 57th anniversary booklet of Harvey and Belinda (Baer) Miller
Dietle sawmill (posted November 2023)
The Dietle Brothers Sawmill, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
1876 atlas of Somerset County (posted October 2023)
Added many additional maps from the 1876 atlas
Guns and Gunsmiths of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania (posted October 2023)
I added a search engine to the Guns & Gunsmiths Project.
History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania (posted October 2023)
Added Volume I of the 1906 book "History of Bedford and Somerset Counties Pennsylvania".
Antique black powder muzzleloader (posted October 2023)
A rifle from the Dormayer/Dunmyer "school" of gunsmithing
The Genealogy of Michael Korns, Sr. of Somerset County, Pennsylvania (posted September 2023)
Links to improved resolution copies of the various chapters of the "Genealogy of Michael Korns, Sr." book have been added to the book download page.
Bedford County rifles (posted September 2023)
Solomon Korns, son of Daniel Korns, Sr. (posted September 2023)
New information regarding Solomon Korns
Dr. Richard Korns, son of Marion D. Korns (posted September 2023)
Dr. Richard Korns
William Troutman, Jr. of Somerset County, PA (posted May 2023)
Updated the Troutman log house page
An old 1800s Somerset County wagon road (posted May 2023)
A video of drive on Church Lane in Larimer Township
Petenbrink, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (posted May 2023)
Peter Petenbrink family in the 1910 census of Southampton Township
Wilson Korns, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (posted May 2023)
John Wilson Korns in the 1910 census records of Southampton Township
Dietle, Somerset County, Pennsylvania (posted May 2023)
William & Adam Dietle families in the 1910 census records of Greenville Township
Daniel Korns, Sr. of Somerset County. Pennsylvania (posted May 2023)
1873 newspaper item listing the heirs of Daniel Korns, Sr.
Herman Sturtz (posted April 2023)
The Korns ancestry of Herman Sturtz and his wife
John and Susan (Korns) Shearer (posted April 2023)
Click here to see a reference to John and Susan (Korns) Shearer and their children in the 1908 book "Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity".
Daniel Korns, Jr. & son John (posted April 2023)
Click here to see the household listings for Daniel Korns, Jr. and his son John Wilson Korns in the manuscript 1900 census records of Southampton Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Daniel Korn of Lehigh County (posted April 2023)
Added manuscript census records to Daniel Korn page
Michael, Daniel, and Jacob Korns (posted April 2023)
Jacob Korn (posted April 2023)
Jacob Korn in the 1909 book "Centennial history of Coshocton County, Ohio"
Edwin F. Korns (posted April 2023)
History of the Corn Families U.S.A. (posted April 2023)
Click here to view the book "History of the Corn Families U.S.A." (27,002 KB pdf). The book indicates that Olive (Korns) Porter thought that an individual named Henry or Harry Korns was the father of Michael Korn, Sr. of Somerset County, Pennsylvania.
Charles H. Korns of Bradford, Pennsylvania (posted April 2023)
Click here to see math & science problems that were proposed by Charles H. Korns of Bradford, Pennsylvania and printed in a 1911 edition of the "School Science and Mathematics" publication.
"Patowmeok Above Ye Inhabitants (posted March 2023)
Circa 1721 Philomon Lloyd map: Patowmeok Above Ye Inhabitants (330 KB pdf)
Cook School (posted March 2023)
Pre-1917 photo of the Cook School, Southampton Township
Kentucky rifle bore size (posted March 2023)
Ball diameter for a given number of pure lead balls per pound
The term "Kentucky Rifle" (posted March 2023)
Tracing the term "Kentucky Rifle"
Percussion conversions (posted March 2023)
How to identify a percussion conversion
When did the percussion cap era of firearms begin? (posted March 2023)
Collected materials on the adoption of the percussion ignition system
Samuel Mier muzzleloader (posted March 2023)
Antique rifle by Samuel Mier of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
John Amos muzzleloader (posted February 2023)
Antique rifle by John Amos of Bedford County, Pennsylvania
David Defibaugh muzzleloader (posted February 2023)
Antique rifle by David Defibaugh of Bedford County, Pennsylvania
Emerick Cemetery (posted February 2023)
Emerick Cemetery, Southampton Township, Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Somerset County surveys (updated February 2023)
WPA Warrant survey maps of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
Southampton Township (posted February 2023)
A geographic reference to a gunpowder mill
Emanuel Korns (posted February 2023)
Emanuel Korns in the 1880 census of Somerset County
Daniel Korns, Jr. (posted February 2023)
Petenbrink (posted February 2023)
Franklin F. Bittner (posted February 2023)
Hermon Husband (posted February 2023)
Hermon Husband in 1761 Maryland records
Aeak's map (posted February 2023)
Aeak's map of Braddock's and Forbes' roads
Nemacolin (posted February 2023)
An Evidence-Based Look at Nemacolin (1,073 KB pdf)
Johann Adam Dietel (posted February 2023)
Frederick Bittinger and his son Franklin Bittner (posted January 2023)
Click here to see Franklin Bittner in the listing of the Frederick Bittinger household in the 1850 census records of Southampton Township.
Philip Bitner (posted January 2023)
Click here to see the listings for Philip Bitner in the 1800 and 1810 census records of Brothersvalley Township.
Greenville Union Church, Greenville Township (posted January 2023)
Select Greenville Union Church communion records
Elisha and Polly Baer of Greenville Township (posted January 2023)
Click here to see the Civil War pension records of Elisha Baer and his widow Polly.
Christian Sturtz, Jr. (posted January 2023)
Click here for a Christian Sturtz, Jr. estate document that seems to indicate the year and month his widow died.
Carl & Odelia Korn (posted January 2023)
Click here for an updated page about the 1752 marriage documents of Carl and Odelia Korn.
The Turkey Foot Road (posted January 2023)
Identifying a portion of the Turkey Foot Road across Level Ridge
Braddock's Road (posted January 2023)
Addenda to the book "Reconsidering Braddock's Road to Martin's"
"Richard" Diederich Geiger (posted January 2023)
"Richard" Diederich Geiger 1789 birth & baptism record
Michael Korns, Sr. (posted January 2023)
Two houses at Penn Alps (posted January 2023)
Pack Saddle Bridge 2008 photos (posted January 2023)
Pack Saddle Bridge
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