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Venango County Reference Lookups

Welcome to the Venango County, Pennsylvania Reference Lookups page. Below you will find a listing of Venango County reference books and volunteers who will do short lookups for you.
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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.


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Census Records


1800, 1810. 1820, 1830. 1840 Federal Census - specify Venango Co.
Barb Seyler - ROPETRACER@prodigy.net

1880 Federal Census - LDS 1880 Census and National Index - Short lookups
Dave Williams - daw640@pobox.com

1880 Federal Census - LDS 1880 Census - specify Venango Co.
Darleen Berens -Darleen_Berens@prodigy.net
Kristina Teifer - prissy68@csonline.net

1900 Federal Census Index - PA, OH, DE, MD, VA, WVA, DC
Dave Williams - daw640@pobox.com

Census - specify year and Venango Co.
Robin Hughes Reeder nibor44@gmail.com
Mary Scott - scottjj956@verizon.net

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@csonline.net

Deaths, Wills, and Cemeteries


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@csonline.net
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@csonline.net


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@pa.rr.com


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@csonline.net


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 and 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

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


100th Anniversary of Polk, PA (formerly known as Waterloo) 1886-1986, Polk Centennial Committee
Patricia Hays Roberts patroberts1176@gmail.com willing to look up Polk names.


Threads of Venango, by Alan R Jones
index only lookups
Robin Hughes Reeder nibor44@gmail.com willing to do index only lookups.


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 richarddwood@comcast.net


History of Venango County, Pennsylvania. Its past and present, including .. (1890)
Author: Bell, Herbert Charles, [from old catalog] ed;
Brown, Runk & co., Chicago, pub. [from old catalog]
Publisher: Chicago, Ill., Brown, Runk & co.

  • Available online for free: https://archive.org/details/historyofvenango00bell
  • The downloadable pdf file: https://ia700308.us.archive.org/10/items/historyofvenango00bell/historyofvenango00bell.pdf


    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@csonline.net
    Brian Green sangreen@tmn.com
    Mary Scott scottjj956@verizon.net


    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@pa.rr.com
    Gary Edwards gedwards@csonline.net


    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


    Eakin 12000+ database, plus Crawford and McQuiston
    Emma Jean Smith pepperspal65@hotmail.com

    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

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