Annual Business Meeting 2024
March 23, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. ET View the election of officers and directors. Learn what GSP has been up to in the last 12 months and what’s to come in 2024.
March 23, 2024 at 11:00 a.m. ET View the election of officers and directors. Learn what GSP has been up to in the last 12 months and what’s to come in 2024.
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.…
Pennsylvania Mining Resources ONLINE RESOURCES Coal in Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania State University Wynning History: Exploring the history of Pennsylvania’s Coal Region King Coal: Mining Bituminous – ExplorePAHistory.com PA State Archives Record Group 45 – Records of the Mines and Minerals Industries – Registers of Mine Accidents for the Anthracite and…
When searching for records during these time periods, keep in mind the county formation dates below. The farms didn’t move – the boundaries around them did! North Central This region includes 11 counties: Centre, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean, Potter, Snyder, Tioga, and Union. Lycoming was formed in 1795 from Northumberland…
County guides for the 11 counties of North Central Pennsylvania: Centre, Cameron, Clearfield, Clinton, Elk, Lycoming, McKean, Potter, Snyder, Tioga, and Union. Lycoming was formed in 1795 from Northumberland County, followed by Centre County in 1800 from Lycoming, Mifflin, Northumberland, and Huntingdon counties. In 1804, parts of Lycoming County were split off…
County guides for the 14 counties of Northeast Pennsylvania: Bradford, Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Schuylkill, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Wayne, and Wyoming. HISTORY Like much of Pennsylvania, this region was inhabited originally by Indigenous peoples. The Lenapehoking lived in what is now Scranton and its environs. In the…