Member and Public Collections List
List of Member and Public Collections on the GSP Website (as of 03/13/12)
MEMBER COLLECTIONS
Member Publications - Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine & Penn in Hand:
PGM – Volume 1 – 1895 – 1898
PGM – Volume 2 – 1900 – 1903
PGM – Volume 3 – 1906 – 1908
PGM – Volume 4 – 1909 – 1911
PGM – Volume 5 – 1915 – 1917
PGM – Volume 6 – 1915 – 1917
PGM – Volume 7 – 1918 – 1920
PGM – Volume 8 – 1921 – 1923
PGM – Volume 9 – 1924 – 1926
PGM – Volume 10 – 1927 – 1929
PGM - Volume 11 - 1930 - 1932
PGM - Volume 12 - 1933 - 1935
Penn in Hand – GSP Newsletter – 1980 – 2011 (111 issues)
Member Newspaper Indexes and Transcriptions:
Dauphin County, Newspaper Extracts - 8 December 1794 - 26 February 1869 (collection added 10/7/2011)
Erie County, Erie County Dispatch, Queries and Answers – 1927 – 1929
Lebanon County, Marriage and Death Notices Extracted from Lebanon County Newspapers, 1860 – 1882
Philadelphia County, Origins from Wants and Personal Columns, 1848 – 1875 – Philadelphia Public Ledger
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Newspaper Local Affairs Column and Almanacs: 1844, 1852 and 1877
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Marriage and Death Index, 1836 – 1843
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Marriage and Death Index, 1844 – 1851
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Marriage Index, 1852 – 1865
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Marriage Index, 1866 – 1870
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Death Index, 1852 – 1857
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Death Index, 1858 – 1865
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Death Index, 1866 – 1870
Philadelphia County, Public Ledger Death Index, 1871 – 1875
Member Miscellaneous Collections
Philadelphia County – Indigents, Miscreants, Madams and Madmen Collection – Court Record Indexes and Extracts, 1856 – 1875. Includes:
a) Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Miscellaneous Docket Index, 1856 – 1875
b) Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas Lunacy Inquisitions and Habitual Drunkardness - Index, 1856 – 1874
c) Philadelphia County of Common Pleas Lunacy Inquisitions and Habitual Drunkardness – Extracts, 1856 – 1874
d) Philadelphia Quarter Sessions Court Desertion Docket – Index and Extracts, 1865 – 1872
e) Philadelphia Common Pleas Court Divorce Docket – Index, June 1874 – March 1875
Philadelphia County – Indigents, Miscreants, Madams and Madmen Collection – Alms House and Asylum Indexes and Extracts, 1847 – 1904. Includes:
a) Philadelphia Alms House Indentures to Girard College – Index and Extracts, 1847 – 1848
b) Philadelphia Children’s Asylum, White Male Children – Index, January 1848 – February 1849
c) Philadelphia Children’s Asylum, White Male Children – Extracts, January 1848 – February 1849
d) Pennsylvania Hospital for the Insane, 1850 Census Abstract
e) Philadelphia Friends Asylum, 1860 Census Abstract
f) Philadelphia’s Blockley Alms House, Female Elopements (Escapes) Abstracts , April 1861 – December 1862
g) Philadelphia Blockley Alms House, Prostitute Register – Index, 1863
h) Philadelphia Blockley Alms House, Prostitute Register – Extracts, 1863
i) Philadelphia Blockley Alms House Black Book (Punishments) – 1882 – 1900
j) Philadelphia, Records of the Northern Home for Friendless Children – Index and Extracts, June 1893 – March 1904
Philadelphia County – Indigents, Miscreants, Madams and Madmen Collection – City Directory Institution Listings, 1847, 1859 and 1862.
Philadelphia County – Indigents, Miscreants, Madams and Madmen Collection – Prison Record Indexes and Extracts, 1819 – 1836 and 1898 -1905. Includes:
a) Philadelphia County Prisons Death Register – Index and Extracts, 1819 – 1830
b) Philadelphia Prisoners for Trial Docket – Index, 1st Quarter 1836
c) Philadelphia Prisoners for Trial Docket – Extracts, 1st Quarter 1836
d) Philadelphia Prisons – Foreign Born Female Convicts – Index and Extracts, 1898 – 1905
Philadelphia County - The Public Baths Association, 1931 Pamphlet (collection added 10/7/2011)
Member Marriage Indexes and Licenses:
Bucks County Marriage Licenses (6) – 1897 – 1899
Cumberland County Marriage Licenses (6) – 1902 – 1910
Dauphin County Marriage Licenses (93) 1900 – 1911
Lebanon County Marriage Licenses (3) 1897 – 1906 – 1908
Lehigh County Marriage Licenses (19) – 1890 – 1916
Luzerne County Marriage Licenses (10) – 1893 – 1899
Miscellaneous County Marriage Licenses (8) – 1898 – 1914
Northampton County Marriage Licenses (33) – 1889 – 1916
Philadelphia County – Kensington Methodist Episcopal “Old Brick” Church Marriage Transcriptions – Chronological, 1810 – 1865
Philadelphia County – Mayor’s Marriages, 2 Volumes, 1856 – 1885
Philadelphia County – Rehoboth Methodist Episcopal Church (Formerly Frankford ME Church) – Chronological, 1834 – 1860
Member Church Record Indexes and Transcriptions:
Philadelphia County – Salem German Reformed Church, Northern Liberties – Deaths and Burials, Indexes and Transcriptions, 1824 – 1834; Anniversary Booklet, 14 pages, with Member List 1952
Snyder County – Botschaft’s Lutheran Church (Grubb’s) Baptisms – Index and Transcriptions, 1792 – 1876
Schuylkill County – Clauser Evangelical Lutheran Church Records – Transcriptions, Partial Index Baptisms, Burials and Communicants – 1822 – 1914
Philadelphia County – Kensington Methodist Episcopal Church – Index and Transcriptions, Marriages 1810 – 1865, Baptisms 1809 – 1918 (some years missing)
Member Funeral Home Records and Indexes:
Fluehr Funeral Home Records - 1908 - 1928 (collection added 2/17/12)
Member Burial and Cemetery Record Indexes and Transcriptions:
Berks County - Gouglersville Cemetery, Cumru Township - Transcriptions - ca. 1869 - 1941
Bucks County Graveyard Inscriptions, from the Collections of Warren S. Ely - Dansville Baptist Church, Newtown Presbyterian Church & Southampton Baptist Church (collection added 3/13/2012)
Philadelphia County – Mt. Moriah Cemetery Database (over 30,000 entries)
Philadelphia County - St. Joachim R.C. Cemetery Burials, 1848 - 1910 (collection added 1/5/2012)
Philadelphia County – Charles R. Barker Register of Burying Grounds in Philadelphia – Includes Maps, Deed Abstracts (from Grantor index), and Survey of Burial Grounds
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
- All information on the Pennsylvania Statewide Resources page
- All Pennsylvania County Pages: Southeast Region, Northeast Region, South Central Region, North Central Region, Southwest Region, Northwest Region
- All County Repository Guides
Public Miscellaneous Collections:
Alien Applications to Depart the United States: September 1918 – January 1919
Pennsylvania Civil War Conscientious Objectors
Milton Rubincam Family Ancestors and Surname Index
Public Church Record Index and Transcription Collections:
Philadelphia County – Old St. Gregory’s Church, West Philadelphia, 1849 – 1872
Public Burial and Cemetery Record Indexes and Transcriptions:
Chester County – East Coventry Mennonite Burial Ground – Index and Transcriptions – 1752 – 1914
Juniata County – Thompsontown Cemetery – Index, Map and Transcriptions
Philadelphia County – Interments Blockley, Francisville and Cherry Hill Burial Grounds – 1819 - 1836
Public Funeral Home Indexes:
Philadelphia County – Helverson Funeral Home Indexes – Various Volumes, Various Years, 1832 – 1915
Philadelphia County - Kimmerle Funeral Home Indexes - January 1929 - March 1969
(Kimmerle Index V 2 added 1/31/12)
(GSP Photos:
Top Right: Title page of first PGM publication, Volume 1, No. 1, 1895
Center Right: GSP Photo, courtesy of Tim Coyne - Photo of Warren S. Ely, dedicated genealogist and life time member of GSP, Bucks County Justice of the Peace and a long time librarian for the Bucks County Historical Society. Taken Washington, D.C., ca. 1932.)
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