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year we sort through our collection and weed out duplicates, older editions of current publications, and items that are outdated.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…
By Lois Wike. Published by Forest Press, Inc. 108 pages. Softcover, typed and handwritten. Fair condition. Library markings on covers. 11.47 oz.
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. 1.52 oz.
Records were compiled by Francis Charles Hibbard over a period of many years while living in Barnesville, Belmont County, Ohio, his native town, gathered these records from various sources, including newspapers, meeting notes, scrapbooks, church records, and a children’s home. pages. Softcover. Fair condition. 31.06 oz.
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,…
VOLANT CEMETERY, VOLANT BOROUGH, WILMINGTON TOWNSHIP, LAWRENCE COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA. 2003 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,…
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.
Author: Paul M. Ruff | Description: Includes the Baptismal Register 1783-1811, some historical notes, and membership lists from 1783-1825. | Publication Date: 1990 | Number of Pages: 26 | Condition: Good. Never circulated. | Format: Softcover | Product Identifier: N/A
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: 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: Elizabeth Berry Buffa | Includes Jeremiah and Samuel Spencer and their descendants| Publication Date: 1987 | Number of Pages: 58, plus index of names| Condition: Good. Never circulated. | Format: Softcover | Product Identifier: N/A
By John Pitts Launey This volume contains records from the Radnor-Haverford-Merion Monthly Meeting, the St. David's Protestant Episcopal Church, and the Darby Monthly Meeting. The Radnor-Haverford-Merion Monthly Meeting records include Welsh births, Pennsylvania births, burials, marriage certificates, certificates from Wales, minutes (1684-1800), and "Meeting for Suffering." | Publication Date: 1997| Number of Pages: 313 |…
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 Richard E. Crawford, Tucson, AZ, and John L. Fox, New York, NY |Publication Date: December 1999 | Number of Pages: 149 | Condition: Very Good. Never circulated. | Format: Hardcover | Product Identifier: ISBN# 0-9703487-0-7
Includes allied families of Shearer, Sterner, Gerberick, Kroll-Croll of York County, PA, and Baltimore and Carroll Counties in Maryland by Harry A. Diehl, BA, MS, M.Ed., Wilmington, DE| Publication Date: 1982| Number of Pages: | Condition: Very Good. Never circulated. | Format: Softcover
By Gilbert Ernest Swope. | Publication Date: 1898| Number of Pages: 228 | Condition: Good. Library identification. Never circulated. | Format: Softcover
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
