Fully searchable indexes to origins of immigrants, local affairs, marriages, and deaths from the Philadelphia Public Ledger : 1836 – 1878 (Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania). The GSP indexes include names and dates of death, which can be used to find original death notices in the Public Ledger newspaper, available…
Birth and Death Records Pennsylvania counties began recording births and deaths in 1893. Birth and death records before 1893 For births 1893, church baptismal records and census records will be the main sources of information for births and parents’ names The John T. Humphrey Pennsylvania Births series includes information extracted…
Locating Pennsylvania Records To locate records, it’s important to note the date when counties were formed, parent counties, and counties formed from each county following boundary changes. Records will be held in the county as it was at the time that the event occurred. Pennsylvania County Creation Date and Parent…
By Kenneth W. Milano Star Newspaper Starts History Column, “Query in the Neighborhood” From the original Lenni village of Shackamaxon prior to the European contact in the 1630’s, to Anthony Palmer’s Kensington founded in the 1730’s, to being named Fishtown by the locals in the 1830’s, our community seems to…
This collection includes last names, first names, middle name, country for which the non-citizen was departing and expected length of stay, in a full-text searchable table and PDFs. See below for historical background on these records. Alien Applications – Alphabetical Index Pages Alien Applications to Depart the U.S. – Surnames…
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GSP webinar presented on April 18, 2024 with Trevor Brandt Download handout Fraktur, or the iconic German American “fractured” manuscript and print folk art style, has historically been lauded as an emblematic regional style in North America. This talk highlights instead the global implications of the oeuvre of a specific…
POULSON’S DAILY ADVERTISER NEWSPAPER 1791 – 1839 INDEXES AND ABSTRACTS CONTENTS OF COLLECTION Possibly the most important aspect of this collection to immediately note is the inclusion of FIVE newspapers in the indexes and abstracts, despite the collection title noting only one newspaper. The Philadelphia newspaper titles and dates covered…
The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania welcomes your questions, comments, and suggestions and provides reference assistance to help you locate resources. Email reference requests to info@genpa.org or send by surface mail to: The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania2100 Byberry Road, Suite 111, Philadelphia PA 19116 To hire a researcher, please visit the directory of…
The region is comprised of 10 counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Delaware, Lancaster, Lebanon, Lehigh, Montgomery, Northampton, and Philadelphia. The three original counties, created by William Penn in 1682, include Philadelphia, Bucks, and Chester. Some 50 years later the next county – Lancaster – was carved out of Chester County in 1728.…