The WPGS Library is non-circulating and is housed in the Pennsylvania Department of the Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh, Main Branch, in the Oakland neighborhood of Pittsburgh. Our thousands of volumes are focused on Western Pennsylvania records and each year we sort through our collection and weed out duplicates, older editions of current publications, and items that are outdated. This Online Used Book Sale now makes these books available 24/7, at reasonable prices.
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Compiled by Joseph Lee Boyle. Transcription of ads for runaway servants taken from 24 colonial newspapers from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Maryland, and New York. The ads provide information on more than 2,500 persons, giving name, age, sex, height, place of origin, occupation, speech, clothing, physical imperfections, and more. | Publication Date: 2016 | Number…
Reprint of first publication of an article which appeared in Vol. XVI, No. 4, Tennessee Historical Quarterly. Author: Paul M. Fink. Jonesborough Civic Trust, Publication No. 1. Pages 195-213. Softcover. Fair condition.
Compiler: Marlene Garrett Bransom.  This book is a compilation of deaths and obituaries that appeared throughout the Pittsburgh Courier community columns and headlines from March 25, 1911, to December 27, 1912. These deaths represent individuals who lived in the small towns of southwestern Pennsylvania such as Beaver Falls, Belle Vernon, Braddock, Brownsville, Canonsburg, Connellsville, Charleroi, Erie, Greensburg,…
Compiler: Marlene Garrett Bransom.  Book Two in this series is a unique compilation of deaths that encompasses over one hundred small towns and cities across the United States from January 13, 1923, to December 27, 1924. Locally featured, are the towns of Apollo, Bellevue, Brownsville, Canonsburg, Carlisle, Charleroi, Clairton, Donora, Duquesne, Ellwood City, Finleyville, Greensburg, Homestead,…
Compiled by D. K. Copper. Tombstone inscription readings and burial records from local newspapers, death register and family histories, with additional genealogical data. Surname index includes Allen, Bell, Black, Carr, Clendenning, Collins, Donley, Gilson, Hillard, Hutsler, Litzenberg, Mahon, McConnell, Michael, Miller, Potter, Sholler, Simison, Sonntag, Tenant, Wimer and many others. | 29 pages | Paperback.
Prepared by a Committee appointed at a Public Meeting in 1919, assisted by the Bureau of War Records of the Adjutant General's Office of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania published by Willow Bend Books | 2001 | Paperback | 297 pages | Great condition.
Compiled by: V. L. Skinner, Jr. | Description: The probate records of the Prerogative Court of Maryland contain several types of records: testamentary proceedings, will, administration accounts, inventories, inventories and accounts, and distributions. Each kind of record has value for the genealogist. Prior to 1777, all probate records were required to be filed with the…
Compiled by Pamela Gilchrist, Chappaqua, New York, Draft #2|Publication Date: November 1998 | Number of Pages: 236| Condition: Good. Library identification. Never circulated. | Format: Coil bound
By Candace E. Anderson |Publication Date: 1998| Number of Pages: 298| Condition: Very Good. Never circulated. | Format: Hardcover
By Gilbert Ernest Swope. | Publication Date: 1898| Number of Pages: 228 | Condition: Good. Library identification. Never circulated. | Format: Softcover
(October 1849-May 1850) edited by Ira A. Glazier and Michael Tepper | Publication Date: 1985; rebound by Library | Number of Pages: 638 | Condition: Irish Passenger Lists, 1847 – 1871 by Brian Mitchell. Condition:  Very Good. Library identification. Never circulated. | Format: Hardcover | Product Identifier: ISBN# 0-8063-1123-1
(July 1848-March 1849) edited by Ira A. Glazier and Michael Tepper | Publication Date: 1984; rebound by Library | Number of Pages: 695 | Condition: Irish Passenger Lists, 1847 – 1871 by Brian Mitchell. Condition: Very Good. Library identification. Never circulated. | Format: Hardcover | Product Identifier: ISBN# 0-8063-1056-1
The aim of this book is to teach you to understand and speak Welsh as it is spoken in Wales today. It is designed as an introduction to the language for complete beginners, as an aid to those who are already learning Welsh, and as a source of revision for those who wish to refresh…
This book comprises a series of chapters from “The Autobiography f Andrew Carnegie” condensed by Evan March Tappan, Ph.D. Paperback. | 152 pages | ISBN-0-947559 01 9
James Arthur Walther, Editor. This is an enthralling and informative chronicle of the development of theological education in the Presbyterian Church and the establishment of the oldest Presbyterian seminary in America. The essays in this bicentennial history describe the religious and political environment in sixteenth-century Scotland that resulted in the formation of the Presbyterian and Reformed churches…
This grammar of standardized colloquial Welsh first appeared as part of an “O” level textbook Cymraeg Cyfoes III intended for use in schools. Demand for a similar description of spoken Welsh grammar resulted in the publication of this book. Paperback: 128 pages | Publisher: Unknown; No Statement of Edition, edition (1976) |ASIN: B004FEI4IW
by Aled Jones. "Y Drych" is North America's oldest Welsh newspaper. From its origins in the bustling streets of downtown Manhattan in 1851, it survived the travails of the civil war to emerge at the end of the 19th century as America's leading Welsh language paper. This text tells the story of this newspaper. Paperback | Excellent Condition…
By David Greenslade, Based on first-hand information from 39 American states and Canadian provinces, this book describes the colorful spectrum of Welsh activities in the U.S.A. and Canada. Hardback. Very good condition. 344 pages. llustrations , samples, Includes index | ISBN10 0905928563 | SBN13 9780905928562
By John Rowlands and Sheila Rowlands. Association of Family History Societies of Wales in conjunction with the Federation of Family History Societies; illustrated edition (1993 | Very good condition. 338 pages, Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Company; 2 edition (December 6, 2009) | ISBN-13: 978-0806316208 | ISBN-10: 0806316209
Edited by John & Sheila Rowlands. Anyone who has had any success in researching their Welsh ancestry will know that a grasp of specialized Welsh genealogical methods and sources is only one of several factors that contributed to that success. They will know, for example, how important it is in Welsh research to have some understanding…
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