If your information states a date prior to 1878 it may be referring to ‘Bradford County. The City of Bradford is in McKean County.

Local Genealogy

The Society is pleased to offer these and numerous other resources to aid in your genealogical research:

• Surname files with information we have prepared in response to past inquiries from researchers.
• Family histories and records donated to us.
• First Families of the Tuna Valley collection, which preserves the history of the earliest settlers in the Bradford area.
• Partial handwritten census lists for 1840, 1850, 1860 and 1870.
• History of McKean, Elk, Cameron and Potter Counties dated 1890
• Genealogy Northern PA dated 1913
• Obituary Index compiled from The Bradford Era newspaper, published in Bradford, Pennsylvania.
• Cemetery Headstone Index
• Editions of The Bradford Era newspaper from 1888 through April 1946.
• Bradford City Directories from 1879 through 1973
• Telephone books dating from the 1950s to present-day for Bradford and surrounding areas.