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.
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?
Search GSP's online Pennsylvania record collections. PA State archivist Jonathan R. Stayer has created a list of Pennsylvania Civil War Conscientious Objectors with background information which can be found HERE.
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
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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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
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
Your generosity to this GSP project is allowing archivist Garrett Boos to move forward with processing, preserving and digitizing the old records of the Harold B. Mulligan Funeral Home. Garrett is able to devote a full day each week to the project, and to keep you informed GSP will be posting regular updates to the Mulligan Funeral Home Records Collection page.
GSP is grateful to each and every one of you who supported saving these records, and is proud to acknowledge your support with your name among the full list of contributors found on the Mulligan page. On a personal note, we were amazed at your dedication and passion to save the records, and for this we sincerely thank you.
GSP is in the process of preparing the donor rewards and will be in contact with all contributors soon.
The GSP Staff & Board of Directors
Philadelphia historian Terry Buckalew has been working for several years to uncover documentation and information about the Bethel Burying Ground, the early graveyard of the Mother Bethel African Episcopal Church, which was purchased by the Reverend Richard Allen and trustees in 1810 for the Church.
To read more about Mr. Buckalew's endeavors and for recent updates, please see - Uncovering a Historic African American Burial Ground in Philadelphia.
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