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,…
Issued in connection with its 160th anniversary. Publisehd in 1936. Compiles by William Creighton Degelman. Bethel Presbyterian Church is a Presbyterian Church located at 2999 Bethel Church Road, Bethel Park, Pennsylvania. The church was founded by Rev. John McMillan, the first Presbyterian missionary west of the Allegheny Mountains, during his third missionary trip. The origins…
The book contains a building history of the area, a delineation of a series of “preservation districts”, where the structures together form neighborhoods of distinction and delight (these include Manchester, parts of South Side, Lawrenceville, Thornburg, Shadyside, and Elizabeth Borough), and a register of buildings that are considered architecturally or historically important. More than a…
By Will and Mazine Schoyer, in collaboration with several employees of Scaife Company. Hardbound. 1952. No dust jacket. A history of the oldest manufacturing company west of the Alleghenies under five generations. Pages. Good Condition. Non-circulating library edition. Hardly used.
Compiled by Lenore W. Bayns. This book is a bicentennial remembrance of the Beulah Presbyterian Church, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Beulah Presbyterian Church is a historic church at Beulah and McCready Roads in Churchill, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania. The hilltop location of the church gave the borough of Churchill its name. The original church building was constructed around…
St. Luke’s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Shaler Township and The United German Evangelical Protestant Church of Girty’s Run, Shaler Township, Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, Parish Records from 1860 to 1922. Translation of the German Records by Therese Dillman Moss. First Edition, December 2000. Softcover. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 180 pages. 8.5”…
By James Wudarczyk in 2002. This book is the first major history of one of Pittsburgh’s most important military institutions. It spans from 1814 through the present, pointing out that this arsenal was the scene of the worst civilian disaster in the history of the Civil War. It was instrumental in the development and fabricating…
A Legacy of Faithfulness for Generations to Come. Compiled by Ama Joan (McElhaney) Chambers and the Bicentennial Book Committee. 1996. 128 pages. Indexed. Hardcover. Good condition. Non-circulating library edition, with library ID markings. 5.5” x 8.5” x 0.45.” Duplicate in WPGS library.
Index to the Registration of Deaths Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1893-1905, Surnames A-F ONLY AVAILABLE AS A DOWNLOADABLE PDF. BE SURE TO PROVIDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS TO RECEIVE ACCESS TO THE FILE. (Does not include deaths in Pittsburgh, Allegheny City, McKeesport, or Sewickley.) These death registrations are the result of an act in 1893 requiring assessors…
Index to the Registration of Deaths Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1893-1905, Surnames G-MC ONLY AVAILABLE AS A DOWNLOADABLE PDF. BE SURE TO PROVIDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS TO RECEIVE ACCESS TO THE FILE. (Does not include deaths in Pittsburgh, Allegheny City, McKeesport, or Sewickley.) These death registrations are the result of an act in 1893 requiring assessors…
Index to the Registration of Deaths Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, 1893-1905, Surnames ME-SP ONLY AVAILABLE AS A DOWNLOADABLE PDF. BE SURE TO PROVIDE AN EMAIL ADDRESS TO RECEIVE ACCESS TO THE FILE. (Does not include deaths in Pittsburgh, Allegheny City, McKeesport, or Sewickley.) These death registrations are the result of an act in 1893 requiring assessors…
An excellent alphabetical listing of the names of individuals who received pensions from various wars, compiled from five volumes of List of Pensioners on the Roll January 1, 1883. Vol. 1, Allegheny, Beaver, and Lawrence Counties. Copyright 1993. 64 pages.
Abstracts of every news item and advertisement of genealogical interest from the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, including marriages, deaths, indentured servants, runaway slaves, estates, land sales, etc. Copyright 2014, 2008, 1988, 1985; 349 pages; indexes
Abstracts of every news item and advertisement of genealogical interest from the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, including marriages, deaths, indentured servants, runaway slaves, estates, land sales, etc. Copyright 2014, 2004, 1986. 445 pages
Abstracts of every news item and advertisement of genealogical interest from the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, including marriages, deaths, indentured servants, runaway slaves, estates, land sales, etc. Copyright 1988. 377 pages
Abstracts of every news item and advertisement of genealogical interest from the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, including marriages, deaths, indentured servants, runaway slaves, estates, land sales, etc. Copyright 1988. 377 pages
Abstracts of every news item and advertisement of genealogical interest from the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, including marriages, deaths, indentured servants, runaway slaves, estates, land sales, etc. Copyright 2008, 1991. 496 pages
Abstracts of every news item and advertisement of genealogical interest from the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, including marriages, deaths, indentured servants, runaway slaves, estates, land sales, etc. Copyright 2008, 1991. 430 pages
Abstracts of every news item and advertisement of genealogical interest from the first newspaper west of the Alleghenies, including marriages, deaths, indentured servants, runaway slaves, estates, land sales, etc. Copyright 1995. 464 pages
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