WPGS Quarterly

Guidelines for Submission

The Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society (WPGS) welcomes unique, well-documented articles focusing on researched family histories from any ethnic, social or religious groups in Western Pennsylvania’s 26 counties or history articles that would be considered useful to Pennsylvania genealogy researchers.   Types of manuscripts accepted include but are not limited to:

• Histories of Pennsylvania ancestors
• Western Pennsylvania locality research
• Unpublished bible, church, and cemetery records

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Address questions to the editors at: quarterly@wpgs.org.

Current Edition

The second article of Issue 43, of the WPGS Quarterly is now available.

A lineage society application, online memorials, and family trees claim that Isaac Minor, who died in 1836 in Fayette County, Pennsylvania, had a son John Minor who lived in Marshall County, West Virginia until his death between 1870 and 1880. Resolving the Merged Identities of John Minor of Fayette County, Pennsylvania and Marshall County, West Virginia by Erica Cousins Curtis examines the entire Isaac Minor family and their disagreements in settling their father’s estate. Whole family research coupled with Fayette County tax and estate settlement documentation proves that John Minor of Fayette County, Pennsylvania, and John Minor of Marshall County, West Virginia, were separate individuals.

Previous Digital Editions

The WPGS Quarterly is a collection of scholarly genealogical articles related to Western Pennsylvania genealogy. The publication was on a hiatus since the 2015-2016 membership year and was revived digitally in 2023.

Archive

Below is an archive of all of our Quarterly Publications as well as an index. Editions prior to 2016 can be ordered here and downloaded upon order completion.