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From: Joan Lowrey <>
Subject: Re: [PAF-5] Not a PAF issue but ... maybe someone can help me
Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 18:49:22 -0800
In-Reply-To: <422CFF2B.6000305@infowest.com>


>I'm looking for Era, PA.

I checked AniMap Plus which includes names of places no longer in
existence, and I see no Era. I also checked "Pennsylvania Line, a Research
Guide to Pennsylvania Genealogy and Local History," Fourth ed., compiled by
Southwest Pennsylvania Genealogical Services, 1990. It has 50 pages in very
small print of "Cities, Boroughs and Villages of Pennsylvania in 1900," and
it has no Era. It has an Erb.

I wonder of "Era" was actually "Erie." If your source was a handwritten
document, and the "ie" of Erie was written close together and closed at the
top rather than stretched out, those two letters could look like an
"a." Do you know the route they took? Did they pass through or near Erie?

Joan Lowrey



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