RELATED SITES

Chamber of Commerce

• The Bradford Area Chamber of Commerce has the latest on Bradford activities and information.

Birth & Death Certificates

These links are provided to aid you in securing birth and death certificates. Please read and follow the instructions on these sites. We are not permitted to secure certificates on your behalf.

• Pennsylvania Birth & Death Records information is available here.
  • There is an effort being made to have Pennsylvania's older state death certificates made available online. Please take a moment to read how you can help. Thank you.

• New York State Birth & Death Records information is available here.

Historial/Genealogical

• Are you researching Bradford County? If so, please contact: Bradford County. The Bradford Landmark Society is located in the city of Bradford, Pennsylvania, McKean County.

• The McKean County Historical Society in Smethport, Pennsylvania.

• Back To Bradford by Angela Nuzzo. The content, variety, and first-rate presentation are worth every moment spent viewing.

• The Penn-Brad Oil Museum, Custer City, PA focuses on the Bradford area's rich oil heritage through historic displays and guided tours. Opens for the season around Memorial Day and closes around Labor Day.

• Salamanca Rail Museum. Just a 1/2 hr. drive from Bradford and well worth the trip.

• See what Planet Smethport has to offer. It's an absolute goldmine of information on McKean County.

• McKean County genealogy information at Rootsweb.

• Visit the Little Museum in Cameron County, PA.

• Beautiful Civil War Watercolor Maps by McElfresh Maps.

• Build your genealogical foundation with us, then take it to the next level at My Geneaologist.

Libraries

• Visit Bradford's Public Library to continue your historical/genealogical research.

• Olean Public Library, Olean, New York will do genealogical or local history research related to the Olean, NY area by means of microfilmed Olean newspapers.

Newspapers

• Bradford's local newspaper is THE BRADFORD ERA.

• The OLEAN TIMES HERALD is located in nearby Olean, NY (Cattaraugus County).

• Search Smethport, PA newspapers such as The Citizen, The McKean County Miner, McKean County Democrat, Settler & Pennon and others covering the years 1833 through 1978.

Recreation

• Walk the Crook Farm Loop North Trail of the Tuna Valley Trail. Located along the west side of the Tunungwant Creek from Bolivar Drive to Tuna Crossroads. There is a graveled parking lot at the Crook Farm for walkers wishing to access the trail from Seaward Avenue.

• While in the Bradford area, don't pass up the opportunity to visit nearby Allegheny National Forest.

• Review Pennsylvania Wilds: Images from the Allegheny National Forest, a magnificent tribute to the Allegheny Forest by writer Lisa Gensheimer and photographer Ed Bernik. This and other fine books are available for purchase from the The Forest Press.

• The Kinzua Viaduct majestically spanned the Kinzua Valley for over a century before that fateful day of July 21, 2003. Let this site take you through that day, complete with animation.

• Would you like to put that GPS to work in the Bradford area searching for geocaches? The Bradford Landmark Society has a cache named in its honor. Get the facts here.

Schools

• Keep posted on the Bradford schools.

• Catch up on Bradford Area High School's Class of 1959. Members of all graduating classes will find this a good read.