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Gain access to our proprietary databases on Greene County (Pennsylvania) families and history.  Click JOIN US below for details of these databases and other benefits and protocols of membership. Memberships are for one  year from the date of joining.

For finding aids to further your research, look at our extensive set of links: Click ABOUT tab at top of this page, and then Links. To see materials available in our building, click CATALOG OF HOLDINGS, Library Card Catalog.

Our Library is attached to Greene County’s 1797 Log Courthouse, which we are pleased to tour with you.  We are a licensed affiliate of FamilySearch’s research & library system.

ANNOUNCEMENTS

Next Meeting: TUE Oct 10, 6:00  A look back at the P.O.M. (Penna-Ohio-Maryland) professional baseball league of 1905, which featured a team in Waynesburg.  Presented by Bret Moore.

Waynesburg Republican Newspaper Digitization Project.  We are fund raising to make the Republican (RP), 1870-1992, available on the net in a word-searchable format.  Tax deductible Donations can be made via the DONATE button above right, or mail checks to: CGS / P.O. Box 547 / Waynesburg PA 15370.  Click below for a taste of the searchable RP: 1951, 1955, 1962-63, 1980-85.

FEATURE RESEARCH (click below for current and past articles): How many direct ancestors do you have?  The calculations are more nuanced than we might have thought.

GREENE CONNECTIONS

We encourage a visit to our Sister website: thousands of family and Greene County archival items such as photographs, letters, Bibles, diaries, Justice of the Peace dockets, maps, and more have been shared by families and repositories.  The Archives are indexed and searchable, its items identified.  A blog of articles by Greene Connections creator Candice Buchanan has recently been added.

Greene Connections has a vibrant Public Group on Facebook, with over 4,000 followers: large numbers of  obits, historic newspaper clippings, photos, queries and comments have accumulated over the past 10 years, are augmented regularly, and are name-searchable.