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 Post subject: 1900 Era Coal Miners
PostPosted: Sun May 24, 2009 7:08 am 
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Hi, I am new to this site. I am researching ancestors who worked in PA coal mines in the 1900 time era. Is there anyone who can direct me to names or people who would know how to find my family members who were miners back then? Any info is greatly appreciated..


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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 5:33 pm 
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Maybe start looking around www.oldforgecoalmine.com and look in "anthacite archives." Won't find any names in the inspectors reports, but there are a lot of links to the area's historic societies. The people there at those societies would know where to find records of people and places.

It would help a lot to know what county they were from, but Carl at Old Forge Coal Mine has a great bundle of the links all in one place in the anthracite archives area so you can start gathering phone numbers and other contact info.

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PostPosted: Mon May 25, 2009 6:09 pm 
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john, you beat me to it, haha. also you can check these guys out, we do a few presentations for them a year and they have a wealth of information on genealogy in pa. http://grsnp.org/

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Hey, Thanks so much to both of you. I really appreciate the links and suggestions. :D
HS


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