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Pennsylvania Genealogy Resources

Reflections - Gettysburg 150

Planning your summer travel? Consider a family visit to Gettysburg. Numerous events are underway for the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg. The Gettysburg Convention and Visitors Bureau and the National Park Service websites offer plenty of information to help you plan.

 

PA Colleges and Universities

Photo - Drexel Women's Medical College Graduation, 1898. (Courtesy Drexel University Med Archives Blog.)  Will you discover your ancestors hiding in a record collection housed in a Pennsylvania College or University Archive?

 

Explore the GSP Collections

Search GSP's online Pennsylvania record collections.  Most recently added is the 7 volume Poulson's Daily Advertiser, 1791 - 1839.

PA Agricultural Census

Did your ancestor own a farm? What did the farm produce? The Pennsylvania State Archives website includes Pennsylvania Agricultural Information and digitized images of census manuscripts for the 1927 PA Agricultural Census. Search the 1927 census by county HERE.

 

PA Agricultural Census Information

What I Wish I Knew Then

GSP has begun a video series where we ask the genealogical community what they wish they'd known when they first started their research. Watch Thomas W. Jones, and the others in our series, by clicking below!

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Featured County Resource

The Pioneer Library of the Bedford County Historical Society houses county tax, alms house and Orphans' Court records, genealogies, naturalizations and an obituary database containing over 100,000 entries. For more information about their collections visit their website or phone 814-623-2011.

 

Bedford County Historical Society

Partner Society Spotlight

The members of North Hills Genealogists are an active group of researchers who host meetings and events at the Northland Public Library in Pittsburgh, PA. For more information about genealogy resources at the Northland Library or to find out more about North Hills Genealogists programs visit their website or contact - info@NorthHillsGenealogists.org

North Hills Genealogists

GSP Congratulates Donn Devine, CG

Fellowship in the National Genealogical Society recognizes a valued servant of the National Genealogical Society. This year’s Fellow, Donn J. Devine, is a retired Brigadier General with the Delaware National Guard and a resident of Wilmington, Delaware. He has been the archivist of the Catholic Diocese of Wilmington since 1989. He served eight years as a director of NGS from 1994–2002. Donn was one of the first lecturers on the appropriate use of DNA and serves as the administrator of two family DNA projects. He has been Board-certified since 1987 and has performed many services for the genealogical community at large. He chaired NGS’s committee on standards and currently serves on the Records Preservation & Access Committee and is a member of the NGSQ Editorial Board. He is a former trustee of the Board for Certification of Genealogists (1992–2006), for which he currently serves as general counsel. He is a past president of the Delaware Society, Sons of the American Revolution, and is a trustee of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania.

 

For his years of service to the genealogical community; his dedication to meticulous adherence to best practices in the field of genealogy as researcher, writer, and lecturer; and for his unflinching volunteer efforts on behalf of the National Genealogical Society and the genealogical community at large, the NGS Board has elected Donn J. Devine a Fellow of the National Genealogical Society.

(Courtesy of the National Genealogical Society.)

 

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