Tri-Counties Genealogy & History by Joyce M. Tice
This Month's Library Additions at Tri-Counties Site
01 February 2007 TO 28 February -  Month 126
Bradford County PA
Chemung County NY
Tioga County PA
What's NEW at Tri-Counties
Tri Counties Home Page
Warnings & Disclaimer
How to Use This Site
Say Hello to Joyce
Statement of Purpose
Volunteer Help Wanted
What's New Previous Months
NOTE: By using the sidebar links on the What's New Pages, you can link to any other place on this massive site. This is our SITE MAP. Be sure you know how to use them . It will save you a lot of time and make the site much more efficient for you to use. It will also guide you to resources you may have overlooked even if you have used the site for many years. Subject links on the left and Township links on the right. The verbal site map is in the bars at right and left of list and the graphic site map is below the What's New list.
Site Map By Subject in Left Bar Site Map by Place in Right Bar
Subjects
February 2007 Tri-Counties Month 126 - Site Established August 1996
Townships
Articles
1900 Museum
Bibles
Biography
Books
Business
Celebrations
Cemeteries
Census
167 Centenarians
Churches
Clippings
Communities
Crime
Deeds
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Directories
Donations
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Entertainment
Events
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Flagholders
Government
Grange
Hotels
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Immigrants
Legal Papers
Let's Visit
Letters
Libraries
Our Library
Maps
Marriages
Migration
Military
Museums
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Obituaries
Obits by 
Cemetery
Organizations
P. O. H.
Pensions
Photographers
Places
Poetry (Local)
Politics
Postcards
Purpose
Queries
Reference Books
Research Services
Research Tips
Reunions
Schools
Scrapbooks
Search
Sports
Stuff & Nonsense
Submit (How to)
Success
Tall Tales
Tax
Theaters
Then-Now
Time
Tourist Places
Towns
Trains
Travel
Vital Records
Volunteer
Wills
Women
"Chinese" Proverb - The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it. 
Date New Page or Local Event
01 Feb  Partitioned Search Engine for users of the What's New Page
Reindexed January 31 at 15340 Pages
Old Bacon Cemetery (2004)
Smith-Jacoby Family Bible Records
CCHS February Lecture Series
1875 Election - Tioga County Township Officers
02 FEB 1875 - New Post of G.A.R. formed at Elkland
1910 Annual Report of the Superintendent of Schools. W. Longstreet
1910 Teachers and Directors of Tioga County
1842-1957 - Scudder School photos, minutes of the school board, history, etc. Incredible collection of school records. 
Woodchucks here have not seen their shadow today. Winter almost over and it only started two weeks ago. 
We are FINALLY having some REAL SNOW !!!! Not deep, but white and fluffy and pretty ! 
1879 Pot of Gold found in Brookfield - It must be true. It was in the newspaper.
03 FEB 1878 Wellsboro Agitator Abstracts
04 FEB  1874 Report of Superintendent of Tioga County Schools
History of the Sebring Grange 1891 - 1991
Many Seed Catalogs Have Long Histories - Joyce's February Mountain Home article
1878 History of the Common Schools of Tioga County by Sarah Lewis, first woman county level school superintendent. Covers history by each township. Excellent article
05 FEB VanEtten Citizens Band
1879 Wellsboro Agitator Abstracts
07 FEB 1874 Rosina Smith Diary - This is second of 24 diaries in this series. Fully annotated with identification of those who "walk through" and photos of many. Still adding links, but it is ready for reading. 
08 FEB CCHS February Lecture Series
 Bradford County Picnic that takes place in Lakeland, Florida every year, is Thursday, Feb. 8th.  . This is all the information I have - The people running it do not send me notification any more as they used to do. 
1886 Wellsboro Hosts Multi County Odd Fellows Convention
More of the Henry Card papers added to page - This is resource (treasure) for the history scholar, although those of you with an ancestor being sued will also find it interesting. Dispute resolution in the 1850s to 1860s.
10 FEB Ashland Historical Society - Dr. Earl Robinson is doing a Power Point presentation of Sullivan's journey from the Waverly area to Lowman.  This has never been well-covered locally, and since it's the immediate prelude to the Battle of Newtown, it's important. 
Date:  Sat. 2/10/07......Time:  1:30 pm.......Place:  Ashland Town Hall in Wellsburg 
Come if you can!    Sylvia    Sun. 2/4/07      9:36 pm
1939 Sugar Run School
1930 Crawford Reunion Photo
Bailey has discovered the moving cursor when I work and keeps trying to catch it. Funny only for a while. His injury is almost healed. Bandage will come off soon.
13 FEB Thorn - Macumber Letters
Article in Star-Gazette about Tri-Counties
http://www.stargazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070212/COLUMNIST26/702120320/1082
14 FEB - Lots of it  - at long last.. This is more snow than we had all of last year and this combined. Hooray!! [I can say that because I don't have to go drive in it]
A New (to us) Troy Fair Ad Card
Oldest Frame House in Troy
A Catalog of 63 Carpenter & Pierce Postcards - Do you have any of the missing numbers in the A1335 series to add to this collection? Take the C&P Tour of Western Bradford County.
 They are coming home today from far and near (15 Feb)
15 FEB CCHS February Lecture Series
1858-1958 Centennial Old  M. E. Church West Burlington
Beech Grove School & Carrie Cogswell
Clippings Page 240 - Ada PARK Rick of Erin - Scrapbook
Clippings Page 241 - Ada PARK Rick of Erin - Scrapbook
Clippings Page 242 - Ada PARK Rick of Erin - Scrapbook
Foster DNA test
Roaring Branch Centennial - 1862-1962
1885- Bessie Wells Play - Nice photo
16 FEB Barbour Cemetery
17 FEB  Brookfield Township Booklet
Looking for local people who would be interested in starting a Troy Historical Society. Contact me at janeto@cqservices.com if interested. Janet Peters Ordway
18 FEB Actors with Bradford County Origin
Smith - Crofut Bible
Clippings page 235 - Obits & Clippings from the Quentin Smith Book sent to Tri-Counties in 2006
Linda's Family Photos
1875 Rosina Smith Diary - This is third of 24 diaries in this series. Fully annotated with identification of those who "walk through" and photos of many people & places.
Barnum Enjoys some winter bird watching from his windowsill
Albany
Armenia
Ashland
Asylum
Athens
Baldwin
Barclay
Big Flats
Bloss
Brookfield
Burlington
Canton
Catlin
Charleston
Chatham
Chemung
Clymer
Columbia
Covington
Deerfield
Delmar
Duncan
Durell
Elk
Elkland
Elmira
Erin
Farmington
Franklin
Gaines
Granville
Hamilton
Herrick
Horseheads
Jackson
Knoxville
Lawrence
LeRoy
Liberty
Litchfield
Mansfield
Middlebury
Monroe
Morris
N. Towanda
Nelson
Orwell
Osceola
Overton
Pike
Putnam
Richmond
Ridgebury
Rome
Roseville
Rutland
S. Waverly
Sayre
Sheshequin
Shippen
Smithfield
South Creek
Southport
Springfield
Standing Stone
Stevens
Sullivan
Sylvania
Terry
Tioga
Towanda
Troy
Tuscarora
Ulster
Union
VanEtten
Veteran
W. Burlington
Ward
Warren
Wells
Wellsboro
Westfield
Wilmot
Windham
Wyalusing
Wysox
Bailey's had enough winter and has himself all packed for a trip to Florida.
20 FEB Abigail Miller - Comfort Bennett Homestead in Big Flats
22 FEB CCHS February Lecture Series
150th Anniversary F & AM Lodge 247 - Mansfield PA
24 FEB 1966 List of Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) Chapters in Pennsylvania in Order by Chapter Number
1966 List of Patrons of Husbandry (Grange) Chapters in Pennsylvania in Order by Chapter Number Within Each County
Compiled Listing of Information on Granges in Tioga County PA
25 FEB From Anna Belle Rice 
I need your help with this message. I got a call this morning  saying that the date for the Tioga County Picnic has been changed. The cards  have all been mailed with the incorrect date.  New cards have been sent  with the proper date of the picnic. 
Tioga County Picnic
Magnolia Building in Lakeland, Florida 
February 25, 2007 
doors open at 10am. bring your place setting, a dish to pass and a gift to give away.
Bosworth Cemetery
Partitioned Search Engine for users of the What's New Page
Reindexed February 26  at 15381 Pages
Begonia in the plant room 
Larger than life-size.
27 Feb PICO Bill Due for Next Six Months $730.  Donations
Patrons of Husbandry - Grange - 1966 Officers Bradford County Chapters
Patrons of Husbandry - Grange - 1966 Officers Tioga County Chapters
1885 March & April Wellsboro Agitator Extracted articles added
28 FEB Rogers - Sargent Bible Records
1880 Wellsboro Agitator Abstracts from Rhoda's Volume 2 - goes to June only
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