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Stringtown on the Pike by John Fulton Stuart Collins, Jr. in 1996. Tales and history of East Liberty and the East Liberty Valley of Pennsylvania. Covers the origin of Stringtown, the early struggles, and the people who shaped its destiny, past and present, together with related stories of old “Pittsburgh” coincident with the settlement of…
Grandma’s Attic: Making Heirlooms Part of Your Family History. First Edition, 1991. Heirlooms can be almost any object imagined. Some fall into the category of fine arts. Others are hand-made crafts or folk art, which are especially exciting because they were not only owned by our ancestors but perhaps made by them as well. Other…
Bessemer Cemetery, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Includes Bessemer Finnish, Bessemer Swedish, Bessemer Jugo-Slav, and Saint Anthony cemeteries in Bessemer, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. By Dwight Edward Copper in 2004. 79 pages. Illustrated. Indexed. Softcover. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 8.5” x 11” x 1”. Duplicate in WPGS library.
Death Records of Butler County, Pennsylvania, 1852-1854 and 1893-1905. Transcription of original records by Cindy Baughman and Pat Collins in 2005. 181 pages. Hardcover. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 8.5” x 11” x 0.75”. Duplicate in WPGS library.
Rich Hill Presbyterian Church, Route 168, Wilmington Township, Lawrence County, Pennsylvania. Cemetery Census with Genealogical Data with a History of the Congregation compiled by Dwight Edward Copper in 2003. This cemetery record book not only includes stone readings by section and row, but contains genealogical material as well as copies of clippings from newspaper records,…
Authors: Clifford Neal Smith and Anna Piszczan-Czaja Smith. Second printing, December 1976. A survey of available genealogical material linking American lineages with their German origins, and to provide background material on German customs, sociological grouping, governmental organization, and ethnographic considerations. 288 pages. Indexed. Hardcover. Very good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 8.5”…
Howard Frank and Dorothy (Rhoades) Finfrock: Their Ascendants and Descendants. Author: Barbara J. Finfrock. First Edition, 1987. 502 pages. Illustrated. Indexed. Hardcover. Excellent condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 8.5” x 11.25” x 1.5.” This family is mostly found in Ohio and Indiana. Duplicate in WPGS library.
Published in 1895. This informative genealogy presents ten generations of the descendants of the Huguenot John Mallet (1673-1745). John was one of some 300,000 Huguenots (a Calvinist religious sect) who fled France in the 17th century to escape religious persecution. The text is divided into three sections: a survey of the existing historical record of…
Records of First Methodist Episcopal Church, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, now the First United Methodist Church of Pottsville. Compiled from original records by Phillip A. Rice; indexed by Jean A. Dellock. First Printing, 2004. ISBN #1558564225. 216 pages. Softcover. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 8.5” x 10.5” x 1.5.” Duplicate in WPGS…
Volume 1, 1728-1807 (1,807 pages) and Volume 2, 1808-1830 (1,240 pages). A bibliography based on the studies of Oswald Seidensticker and Wilbur H. Oda. Edited by Karl John Richard Arndt and Reimer C. Eck. Compiled by Gerd-J. Bötte and Werner Tannhof using a preliminary compilation by Annelies Müller. This work covers the years 1728 to…
Compiled by Norman B. Wilkinson. Edited by S. K. Stevens and Donald H. Kent. 1957. 826 pages. Indexed. Hardbound. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 6.25” x .9.25” x 1.75”. Duplicate in WPGS library.
Historic data and reminiscent of the centennial. Author: Andrew White McCollough. Reprinted in 1996. 123 pages. Illustrated. Softcover. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 5.75” x 8.75” x 0.25.” Duplicate in WPGS library.
By John Philip Colletta. 1996. Colletta considers every angle of research, and one of the best aspects of his guide is his full listing of reference works and genealogical collections. The bulk of his book is devoted to research in Italy, where local repositories assume importance. He is rather amusing here, describing the general indifference…
Author S. K. Stevens. Fourth Edition, revised and enlarged by Donald H. Kent in 1976. Originally Published in 1960 by the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission. 58 pages. Softcover. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 6” x 9” x 0.25”.
Including wills and administrations of Union, Mifflin, and Indiana Counties, all formerly a part of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania. Compiled by Charles A. Fisher in 1992. The abstracts are arranged by county and are therein divided into separate sections of wills and administrations. Approximately 10,000 persons are mentioned in the text and includes an index to…
Compiled by Jeremy Gibson and Jeremy Sumner Wycherley. 1990. The Hearth Tax, for which records survive between 1662 and 1674, is the best-known taxation source for local and family history, listing the inhabitants of most houses in England and Wales by county and parish. This booklet provides a clear and simple guide to the lists…
An early settler of the Wyoming Valley and a soldier of the American Revolution. Author: Edward Merrifield, Scranton, PA. Reprinted in 1998. The story of the captivity and rescue from the Indians of Luke Swetland, an early settler of the Wyoming Valley (PA), coming with the Connecticut settlers in 1769, and a soldier of the…
Compiled by Bob and Mary Closson and reprinted in 2005. Includes names, ages, and places of residence, as returned by the marshals of the several judicial districts under the act for taking the 6th census, Washington, D.C., 1841. This publication was produced from a professional scan of an original edition of the book, which can…
Author: Robert Armistead Stewart. Reprinted 1993. The first part of this work recounts the exploits of the largest of all the State navies, while the roster of officers and men, in the second half of the book, is a compilation deriving from a variety of source records. Alphabetically arranged, the entries include, wherever possible, rank…
Author: Barbara Renick. 2003. For the uninitiated researcher, this volume includes the steps needed to find out who your ancestors really were and for even the more experienced genealogical researchers it brings together the important principles and practices. Covers such topics as the importance of staying organized and how to go about it; where and…
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