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Includes counties of Schuylkill, Northumberland (most), Montour, Columbia (part), Lycoming (part), Clinton (part).(1989), 2003, 5½ X 8½, index, paper, 80 pp. ... Read more

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Membership in the Colonial Society of Pennsylvania (established in Philadelphia in1874) is limited to males over the age of twenty-one descended from a male or female whosettled in any colony of America (now the United States) prior to the year 1700. Membership inthe organization is limited to 300 persons. This volume is essentially an alphabetically arrangedlist of members of the Society in the year 1950, showing the direct line of descent of eachmember to his colonial ancestor, the earliest known date of the ancestor's presence in America,and the year each member was elected to the Society. Preceding the roster of members arevarious lists of Society by-laws, officers, and committee members, all of which serve to paint apicture of the history of this esteemed organization. At the back of the volume the reader willfind an alphabetically arranged index of the pioneer ancestors of the Society.

Researchers hoping to connect to a proven line of colonial ancestry may find what they arelooking for in one or more of the following lineages of Society members as of 1950: Acton,Adams, Alexander, Aller, Ambler, Anderson, Argo, Ashbridge, Bainbridge, Barnes, Barnsley,Bartow, Bayne, Beck, Belcher, Bell, Belsterling, Bevan, Bigelow, Black, Bland, Blinn, Boger,Bosler, Bradley, Bridger, Brinton, Brown, Brownback, Buckenham, Bunting, Burpee,Cadwalader, Campbell, Canby, Capp, Carr, Carrigan, Castle, Castner, Chaffe, Clafin, Claghorn,Clark, Clarkson, Clement, Closson, Clothier, Coates, Coleman, Colket, Connell, Cooper, Cope,Corson, Crispin, Coskey, Davis, Day, Dilks, Dobbins, Donaldson, Duff, Dyer, Eisenbrey,Elredge, Elmer, Esler, Eslack, Evans, Ewing, Fell, Fergusson, Fitler, Flagg, Forbes, Fornance,Frazier, Fuller, Funk, Garrett, Gates, Gillingham, Green, Grundy, Guernsey, Haines, Hanna,Hart, Hay, Henderson, Henry, Herkness, Herndon, Hinkson, Hires, Hoffman, Hogeland,Holloway, Hood, Hoopes, Hopkinson, Hopper, Howard, Howard-Smith, Howell, Huey,Hurlburt, Jenkins, Jenks, Johnson, Jones, Jump, Keast, Keffer, Kennard, Kennedy, Klapp,Knight, Knowles, Laing, Landreth, Lay, Leach, Lee, Lengert, Lewis, Ligget, Lloyd, Lott,Lueders, Lutz, McBee, McKean, Mansfield, Maris, Massey, Matthews, Melvin, Middleton,Miller, Mills, Milne, Mirkil, Montgomery, Moore, Morgan, Morris, Morrison, Mustin, Newhall,Newnam, Norris, North, Ogden, Palmer, Parker, Patterson, Pearson, Penrose, Perry, Plowman,Putnam, Rambo, Randolph, Rankin, Reckefus, Reeves, Reifsnyder, Rich, Rue, Rulon-Miller,Runk, Rutter, Sargent, Sayen, Seal, Seeley, Selden, Shelley, Sheppard, Sherron, Shewbrooks,Shoemaker, Shryock, Sickel, Smith, Snow, South, Steere, Stewart, Stockwell, Strassburger,Sturgis, Summers, Sutter, Sutton, Swing, Taylor, Thomas, Van Dyke, Walker, Walton, Warnock,Warriner, Watkins, Weightman, West, Wetherill, White, Wiederseim, Wiener, Williams, Wood,Wurts, Wynn, and Wynne. ... Read more

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Nicely detailed depiction of this populous area at mid-century. Our reproduction of this 1864 Johnson map shows both county and township boundaries. Villages and railway lines are also illustrated. Black and white map, printed on 18 x 24 paper, folded. ... Read more

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One of the first clergymen to serve the early Pennsylvania-German settlers, JohnCasper Stoever maintained a ministry in southeastern Pennsylvania for a period of fifty years,during which time he kept a record of the baptisms and marriages he performed in hismissionary travels. Stoever's journal, which was written in German, was translated and publishedin a limited edition, without an index, in 1896. Copies of the work have been eagerly sought afterbut have not been available for years, for which reason we are pleased to publish this reprintedition, adding to it the index so sadly lacking in the original. ... Read more

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Early Lutheran Baptisms and Marriages by Stoever
This is an excellent genealogical resource.Many Pennsylvania German families are in this book because Rev Caspar Stoever started many small German Lutheran churches in Pennsylvania and even into Virginia. ... Read more

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Mixed PDF/HTML format* From the History of Allegheny County - Moon, Coraopolis, Findlay, Crescent, North Fayette, South Fayette, Collier, Robinson, Stowe, and Neville. * 80 pages of full color tombstone photos from Coraopolis Cemetery, concentrating on the older stones.Surnames include: McCabe, Hamilton, Jolly, Buzza, Dickson, Seibert, McConnell, Wilson, Fisher, Kinyear, Wetzel, Pfeffer, Bateman, McClelland, Welch, Luttringer, Hanner, McAllister, Kepper, Keim, Hofacker, Marshall, Magnus, Alexander, Whitaker, Arras, McDonald, Surls, McClinton, Phillips, Von Stein, Neely, Weckerle, McCormick, Venter, Johns, Knopf, McCombs, Bader, Bateman, Coukart. * 88 pages of full color tombstone photos from the cemetery at Sharon Presbyterian Church, Moon Township.Surnames include: Gittins, Rankin, Bates, Dally, Sanders, Kelly, Green, Doughty, Uhrine, Harvey, McCall, Mihalyi, O'Brien, Cramer, Price, Moore, Erwin, Gass, Wyke, Eberle, Lauderbaugh, Klixbull, Richards, Burkholder, Wick, Neely, White, Lindsay, Behm, Carpenter, Lewis, Gordon, McCartney, Meyers, Bartley, McBrier, English, Woolrich, Davidson, Shields, Meanor, Gebhart, McLaughlin, Kennedy, Sohn, Scharpf, McElhaney, Harper, Van Dyke, McCarriher, Davie, Brogley, Follett, Rouser, Irons, Ramsey, Pettibone, Kirkpatrick, McCoy, Hattman, Hood, Cooper, Gibb, Wynn, McCague, Wilson, Bailey, Aten, Evans, Hahn, McCutcheon, Mertz, Findlay, Reid, Dickson, McGregor, Jacobs, Wagner, Logan, McKindley, Beggs, Lee, Keil, Schmidt, Hainley, Snyder, Crookham, McElravy, McGee, Edgar, Brown, Deemer, Clark. High resolution late 1800s map of Neville Island, showing residents, as well as some detail for McKee's Rocks, Middletown/Coraopolis, Robinson, Hayes, and other nearby Ohio Valley riverfront communitiesBooklet from the Dedicatory Services at Riverdale Presbyterian Church at Shousetown (Glenwillard) February 16, 1902. Photos of the plaques on the cemetery monument at Glenwillard. ... Read more

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The Historical Pennsylvania Book Collection is a collection of 66 volumes relating to the history of Pennsylvania and its people primarily in the 18th and 19th centuries. Several of the volumes have great period illustrations and portraits of relevant historical figures. Here are the computer requirements to run and operate this DVD. You must have a PC running Windows or a Macintosh running OS X or higher software and a web browser. All the manuals in this disk are in DJVU format. This format allows you to page through the manuals, enlarge pages for better viewing and print the individual pages or entire manual as well as many other things. The viewer is very intuitive to use and has a full help system to answer any questions you may have about its more advanced features. The viewer is included on the DVD. ... Read more