Our mission is to make as many records available as possible. Covering the entire Painted Hills Area of Western New York and Northwestern Pennsylvania. Our society also strives to educate others, while making the field of genealogy fun and exciting to young and old.

Read a New letter from a PHGS member serving with the Peace Corps in China

There is a new book on Thomas L. Kane (1822-1883), by Author Matt Grow, which discusses, among other things, his leadership of the Pennsylvania Bucktails and his development of McKean County between the 1850s and the 1880s. You can read more in his flyer at : http://www.paintedhills.org/growflyer.pdf And the following link also has information: Click Here

The Erie Society for Genealogical Research is again sponsoring a major conference on May 16, 2009. The speaker will be Hank Jones. For more information go to the ESGR Web Site

Allen County, Indiana Public Library Helps Preserve Research

• NEWSPAPERS ON- LINE IN OUR 6 COUNTY AREA
• Locating Naturalization Records in Cattaraugus, Chautauqua and Erie Co's.
• Township List of Allegany, Cattaraugus and Chautauqua Counties
• Area Churches for Counties Covered in NY & PA
• Funeral Home Address and Phone Numbers for the PHGS Area
• Reading and Cleaning Headstones
• Old Occupations and Their Meanings ( not a PHGS site )
• Andrew Sherwood Pension Files ( Revolutionary War Vet ) Spans several counties from NY and PA

• Past Reunions and upcoming 2006 Reunion
  
• Painted Hills Most Wanted List
• Natural and Man Made Disasters
• Unsolved Mysteries