Helpful for Family History
- Pennsylvania Mining Accidents 1869-1916 by Gerald E. Sherard. This book is thousands of pages long and includes an alphabetic list of victims of mine accidents with date of accident, age, colliery name, fatal/non-fatal, and whether anthracite or bituminous mine.
- Unearthing Your Coal Miner Relatives at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Links to resources about both anthracite and bituminous mines and coal miners at the Pennsylvania State Archives. Also includes links to several online documents.
- Coal Miners in My Family. This is a post I wrote about my coal mining ancestors. I have ancestors who were coal miners in both the U.S. and England.
- Once a Miner, Twice a Breaker Boy. Is a post with resources for learning about mining and finding ancestors.
- Tracing Your Coalmining Ancestors: A Guide for Family Historians (Google Books preview pages) See review here. Primarily for U.K. miners.
- Coal Miner Records at Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission for both anthracite and bituminous coal areas
- Coal Mining Records for Family Historians at Northumberland Archives, U.K. offers tips for finding the records.
About Coal Mining
- Life in the Mines: The Life of the Immigrant Miner. A website with links to stories and photographs; life in the mines; various mines; culture of the mining community; and coal information
- Coal mining at Citizendium. Sections include methods, safety; history; early history; Industrial Revolution; miners; and more
- The Coal and Ironstone Mining of Bradford [Yorkshire] in the 19th Century: A Historical Perspective of Coal and Iron Mining in Bradford. This 76-page book, available online for download or printing from the website at no cost, recounts the history of coal mining in the area; types of mines; conditions in the mines; the need for child labor; location of mines in Bradford. Illustrated with drawings and photographs. The need for coal was tied to the production of iron, and both are discussed in this book.
- National Coal Mining Museum for England. You will find some information about mining here but I think visiting the museum would be better than viewing the website.
- Durham [U.K.] Mining Museum. Click the options on the left sidebar to learn more about a specific topic. Includes a history of mining; list of mines; disasters; books about mining; a section for family historians; and more.
- Breaker Boys. Photographs by Lewis Hine.
- Ohio's Hidden Mine is an 18-minute documentary about a mining operation in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, owned and operated by the Dessecker Brothers who began mining after World War II, in 1947.
- The Miners of Northumberland and Durham. A History of Their Social and Political Struggles, from the Earliest Period Down to the Present Day. Richard Fynes. 1873. Available at Google Books.
- Digging Up the Past: a photographic archive from the South Wales coalfield includes links to information for both Britain and Wales about mines and mining. Includes links to a database of mining deaths in the U.K.; children in the mines in 1842; database of mining deaths in the U.K.; and much more. Some links on this site may be of genealogical interest (if your ancestor was a miner in England or Wales), some links lead to sites about historical mining, some about modern mining.
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