Venango County Ref. Lookups
Welcome to the Venango County,
Pennsylvania Reference Lookupspage.
Below you will find a listing of Venango County reference
books and volunteers who will do short lookups for
you. If you would like to become
a lookup volunteer, please e-mail me with
Venango County Volunteer in the
subject line. For each book, I need to know the title
author, publisher, publication place and
year,and purchase information (if available).
I have provided purchase information
for books below as a service to visitors of this web site
and to the authors of the books. I am not
involved in and do not profit from the sales of
any books listed on this page.
Guidelines for requesting information from a lookup volunteer:
- This is a free service,
- courtesy of our volunteers,
- please don't request or expect a volunteer to do
- a lot of actual research for you.
- ***
- Be as specific as possible
- in your request and limit it to one or two
- individuals or families.D on't ask for
- something like all of the SMITHs on the 1900 census.
- ***
- Be aware of the Fair Use provisions of
- the copyright laws. Short lookups
- of publicly available information are fine.
- However, the distribution of photocopies or
- verbatim transcriptions of significantly
- large sections of a work still under copyright protection
- without the author's permission is not allowed.
- see here for more info.
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- Put VENANGO COUNTY FREE LOOKUP
- in the subject line of the email
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- Be patient.
- The volunteers are often inundated with requests
- and it may take some time for them to get to yours.
- ***
- Please thank the volunteer
- for taking the time to look up the information.
Census
Births and Marriages
 Marriages from Venango County Sources 1795-1885 (All)
- and 1886-1946 (Outside the County) - Volume II
- Compiled by Joan S. & Kenneth L. Hanson
- Publ. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994
- Format 442 pp.
- Purchase Info.
- $40.95 per book + $4.00 p&h per
- order (PA residents add 6% sales tax).
- Make check/money order payable to and send
- order to Closson Press, 1935 Sampson Drive,
- Apollo, PA 15613-9208 MC/Visa
- available. For further purchase info.,
- e-mail rclosson@nb.net or phone (412) 337-4482.
 Anita Bryan e-mail anita@cyberservices.com
Marriages from Venango County Sources 1795-1885 (All)
- and 1886-1921 (Outside the County)
- Compiled by Joan S. & Kenneth L. Hanson
- Publ. Apollo, PA: Closson Press, 1994
- Format 381 pp.
- Purchase Info.
- $35.95 per book + $4.00 p&h per
- order (PA residents add 6% sales tax).
- Make check/money order payable to and send
- order to Closson Press, 1935 Sampson Drive,
- Apollo, PA 15613-9208 MC/Visa
- available. For further purchase info.,
- e-mail rclosson@nb.net or phone (412) 337-4482
- Gary Edwards gedwards@mail.cosmosbbs.com
Venango County Marriage License Index, 1880-1990
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@earthlink.net
Deaths, Wills, and Cemeteries
Births, Marriages & Deaths
- found among church records of Oil City, prior to 1906
- and not found among any other printed records
- Abstracted by Karen S. Golden Rodgers
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@embarqmail.com
Venango County Pennsylvania Death Book Summary & Index 1893-1905
- Compiled by Joan S. & Kenneth L. Hanson
- Publ. Apollo, PA: Closson Press
- Format 105 pp.
- Purchase Info.
- $9.95 per book + $4.00 p h per
- order (PA residents add 6% sales tax).
- Make check/money order payable to and send
- order to Closson Press, 1935 Sampson Drive,
- Apollo, PA 15613-9208. MC/Visa
- available. For further purchase info.,
- e-mail rclosson@nb.net
- or phone (412) 337-4482.
- Gary Edwardsgedwards@mail.cosmosbbs.com
Abstracts of Wills Venango County, Pennsylvania, Book I, 1806-1836
- Publ. Oil City, PA: Venango County Genealogical Club
- Jerry Kinnear Stout jerrystout@sbcglobal.net
Venango County, Pennsylvania Alphabetic Will Index Through 1946
- Compiled by Joan S. & Kenneth L. Hanson.
- Publ. Apollo, PA: Closson Press.
- Format 365 pp.
- Purchase Info.
- $35.00 per book + $4.00 p&h per
- order (PA residents add 6% sales tax)
- Make check/money order payable to and send
- order to Closson Press, 1935 Sampson Drive,
- Apollo, PA 15613-9208 MC/Visa
- available. For further purchase info.,
- e-mail rclosson@nb.net
- or phone (412) 337-4482
- Gary Edwards gedwards@mail.cosmosbbs.com
Venango County Pa Cemetery Records and Early Church Histories,
- Vol. 1 - Irwin, Mineral, Victory Townships - OUT OF PRINT
- Publ. Franklin, PA: Venango
- County Historical Society, 1992
- Darleen Ritchey Berens Darleen_Berens@prodigy.net
- Sylvia Russell Coast smrcoast@pathway.net
Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and
- Early Church Histories, Vol. 2 - Clinton Township
- Publ. Franklin, PA: Venango
- County Historical Society, 1994.
- Darleen Ritchey Berens Darleen_Berens@prodigy.net
- Gary Edwards gedwards@mail.cosmosbbs.com
Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and
- Early Church Histories, Vol. 3 - Scrubgrass Township
- Publ. Franklin, PA: Venango
- County Historical Society, 1995
- Darleen Ritchey Berens Darleen_Berens@prodigy.net
Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records
- Index for Emlenton Cemetery
- also St. Michaels Cem in Emlenton
- up to date and including the year 2000
- Darleen Ritchey Berens darleen_berens@prodigy.net
Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and
- Early Church Histories, Vol. 4 - Richland
- Township Part of Rockland Township
- Publ. Franklin, PA: Venango
- County Historical Society, 1996
- Darleen Ritchey BerensDarleen_Berens@prodigy.net
Venango County Pennsylvania Cemetery Records and
- Early Church Histories, Vol. 5 - Rockland
- Township
- Publ. Franklin, PA: Venango
- County Historical Society, 1997.
- Tricia L. Morell tmorell@mail.arco.com
Grove Hill Cemetery, Oil City, PA
- tombstone listings and some interment records
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@embarqmail.com
Miscellaneous Obituaries, Vol. 1, 2 & 3
- compiled from my professional and personal research files
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@embarqmail.com
Land and Other County Records
Venango County Panorama
- Contains 1865 property owner map
- Publ. Franklin, PA: Venango
- County Historical Society, 1983.
- Galen Calvert havilah@ronan.net
- please give township for lookup
County, Local, and Regional Histories
History of Venango County, Pennsylvania, And Incidentally of Petroleum,
together with Accounts of the Early Settlement
and Progress of Each Township, Borough, and Village,
with Personal and Biographical Sketches of the Early Settlers,
Representative Men, Family Records, Etc.
By an Able Corps of Historians
Edited by J.H. Newton
Published by J.A. Caldwell, Columbus, Ohio 1879
- Richard Wood digginer@comcast.net willing to do short look-ups.
History and Biographies of Plum Township
- Venango County PA, 1976
- Dewaine Alcorn dialcorn@alltel.net
Venango County Pennsylvania,
- Her Pioneers and People, Vol.II,
- illustrated Genealogy-Biographical; Chicago,
- J.H. Beers & Co 1919. It is indexed.
- Pages in this volume are 561-1087.
- Penny Minnick minnick862@verizon.net
History of Venango County, Pennsylvania
- Publ. Brown, Runk & Co.
- Publ. 1890
- Darleen Ritchey Berens Darleen_Berens@prodigy.net
- Gary Edwards gedwards@mail.cosmosbbs.com
- Brian Green sangreen@tmn.com
- Mary Scott scottjj956@tx.rr.com
Irwin Township,
- Older Than Venango County
- Compiled by Sylvia Russell Coast and Faye J. Smith
- Publ. Emlenton, PA, 1996
- Notes A separate index was
- published by Gary Edwards
- Purchase Info.
- $12.00 + $2.00 p&ah per book.
- Make check/money order payable to and send
- order to Irwin Township, RD #1, Box 138K,
- Harrisville, PA 16038. For further
- purchase info., contact Sylvia Russell Coast smrcoast@pathway.net
- Gary Edwards gedwards@mail.cosmosbbs.com
Pithole:The Vanished City
- By William C. Darrah.
- Debra Owens xxanado@earthlink.net
The Planting of Civilization in Western
- Pennsylvania
- By Solon J. Buck and Elizabeth H. Buck
- Publ. Pittsburgh, PA:
- University of Pittsburgh Press, 1939.
- Debra Owens xxanado@earthlink.net
Family Histories
The John R. Boyer Of Clarion & Venango Family
- Association database
- James Boyer Walton j051030@hotmail.com
Eakin 12000+ database, plus Crawford and McQuiston
- Emma Jean Smith pepperspal65@gorge.net
Miscellaneous
Venango
- County Soldiers, Biog. Sketches Pension
- Records of Rev. War Soldiers, War of 1812
- Burials Civil War Burials
- By Paul W. Myers.
- Publ. 1988
- Jerry Kinnear Stout jerrystout@sbcglobal.net
City directories for Oil City
- and some Franklin from 1871 to 1990
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@embarqmail.com
1898 Venango County Directories
- lists all townships
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@embarqmail.com
Abstracts of Early Venango County Newspapers
- 1830-1885
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@embarqmail.com
Index of Appearance Docket #1
- 1808-1850, Venango County
- Karen Rodgers karenandsteve@embarqmail.com
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