Category: Civil War

Finding the Women in Our History

Posted on December 7, 2021 by Candice Buchanan

Greene County, Pennsylvania is featured in this Library of Congress Video Presentation. – Watch and learn as we delve into the past with the women from our local history and family trees. Understand the challenges involved in uncovering their stories. Celebrate the details – big and small – that the records reveal about their lives, families, and communities. The lessons learned from these local women will help us to find our female ancestors wherever they lived.

Category: Archives, Case Study, Cemetery, Census Records, Civil War, Courthouse Records, Family History, Featured, Health, Love Story, Waynesburg College, Women, World War ITags: Civil War, Green Mount Cemetery, Lazear, Staggers, Suffrage, Waynesburg College, Women, World War I

Love Stories in Shades of Greene

Posted on July 25, 2020 by Candice Buchanan

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Romance genealogy-style, as we share the tales of courtship from a handful of Greene County, Pennsylvania family histories.

Category: Civil War, Family History, Featured, Love Story, Waynesburg College, WomenTags: Adams, Bryan, Buchanan, Cook, Dulaney, Garard, Hughes, Jacobs, Livingood, Loller, Milligan, Robinson, Throckmorton, Watts, Wells

The House That Cyrus Built

Posted on July 5, 2020 by Candice Buchanan

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The genealogy of a house. Built by Civil War veteran, Cyrus Pyle, in the early 1870s, this is the story of a Waynesburg house and how it matters to family and local history.

Category: Case Study, Cemetery, Census Records, Civil War, Courthouse Records, Family History, Featured, House HistoryTags: Green Mount Cemetery, Hertzog, Morris Street, Pyle