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,…
Abstracts of Philadelphia County Wills, 1748-1763 by F. Edward Wright | 1995 First Edition | Paperback | 290 pages | Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.65 inches | These wills were done under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Every name mentioned in the will is abstracted, land tract names, residence, and occupation of…
These wills were abstracted under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Paperback, 342 pages. Condition: Good, but missing title page. Library copy with library notations; never circulated.
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…
Christ Church was established in 1695 and was the first Episcopal church in Philadelphia. For a number of years it served the entire Anglican community, and by 1760, when St. Peter’s was split off from it, more than 10,000 baptisms and burials were recorded in its registers. These registers are intact from 1709, and the…
J. E Wright. Doris S. Corbett, Paperback. A fascinating look at life during pioneer times in western Pennsylvania. Describes the hardship, danger, and drudgery of day-to-day life on the frontier. Topics include cabin raising, crop harvests, tanning, weaving, disease, religion, and superstition. Also follows the progression from pioneer life to the industrial society. Pioneer Life…
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…
A History of the Borough of New Eagle, Pennsylvania, Diamond Jubilee – 1912-1987. Publisher: New Eagle Diamond Jubilee Committee. Paperback. Condition: Clean; not circulated; hardly opened; no markings.
Printed by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Public Instruction. This book is a list of duly licensed real estate brokers and salesmen and branch office arranged alphabetically by counties. Paperback. 642 pages. Non-circulating library edition. No discount.
by John S. Van Voorhis, with an Index by Veronica Schofield. Originally published in Pittsburgh in 1893. Reprinted with an added forward and an index, by Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, 1974. Hardbound, no dust jacket. 504 pages. Condition: Clean; hardly opened; no markings. 5.5” x 8.5” x 1.25”
By: Pennsylvania Society Sons of the Revolution | Publisher: Monongahela, Pa. Society Sons of American Revolution: 1995 | First Edition; First Printing | Hardcover, black cloth, nearly new, near fine condition with no dust jacket. 916 pages. Members and ancestors are alphabetically arranged in separate sections.
By Henry C. Peden, Jr., M.A. and John Pitts Launey. (1997) Softbound publication. Records from Concord Monthly Meeting, Forks of Brandywine Presbyterian Church, Brandywine Baptist Church, and Middletown Graveyard. Indexed. 358 pages. Library edition; never circulated.
The Spiritual Pilgrimage of a Community & Its People. Compiled and published as a personal account by David H. Gill, Th. M. (1993) In eight chapters, this volume includes information on the community of the Clearfield County, Pennsylvania, church and its buildings, which includes the 1841 log structure and the present 1871 frame edifice, as…
In Hollidaysburg Borough, including Greenlawn, Holliday, Jackson, old and new Saint Mary’s, and Union. This 33+ page paperback was compiled and published by the Blair County Genealogical Society in 1982 as Publication No. IV. Good, clean copy. Library donation; never circulated.
Index to the Probate Inventories of York County, Pennsylvania, 1749-1850 by David A. and Brenda L. Paup. Reading an inventory is like rummaging through your grandmother’s attic. You are filled with wonder and curiosity as you visualize these objects that no longer play an important part in our modern lives, but once were depended upon…
By John Pitts Launey and F. Edward Wright . (1997) Softbound publication. Includes Map of Delaware County 1789 and births, marriages, and deaths listed in the Chester Monthly Meetings (Quaker) and St. Paul’s Protestant Episcopal Church, Chester, PA. Indexed. Paperback. 292 pages. Library copy; never circulated; has library identification markings.
By Ellen Thomas Berry & David Allen Berry. First Edition, 1987. This book sets out to acquaint the researcher with the types of Quaker records that are available, the location of the records, and the proper and effective use of those records, guiding him through the pyramidal “meeting” structure to the records of birth, marriage,…
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