They went "West" : or more precisely being information found in newspapers of Astoria, Fulton Co., Illinois, 1886-1917 and Crawford Co., Ohio, 1891-1939, pertaining to descendents of families from South Central Pennsylvania, and adjacent areas, with Surname index
Abstracts of Pennsylvania records of naturalizations, 1695-1773, found in Colonial records (Minutes of the Provincial Council), volumes 1, 2, 3, 9 & 10, The statutes at large of Pennsylvania, volumes II, III, IV, VI, VII & VIII, Pennsylvania archives, series 1, volumes 1, 3 & 4 : with surname index
[1] Birth and baptismal certificates and Bible records -- v. 2. The Franklin and Marshall College collection -- v. 3. Birth and baptism certificates and Bible records from a private collection.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 405-414) and indexes.
Summary
Contains emigrants from more than thirty Palatine (Germany) villages. Included for each immigrant is the Palatine village of origin, translated family data from the German records, data about arrival in America, and (when found) additional family data on the earliest generation(s) from American records. More than sixty of the families from this region arrived before 1727, when the Pa. passenger lists start; this is the most difficult group to locate and identify in both European and American records. [from the publisher]
translated and copied from the original book by William C. Lightner ; plus tombstone inscriptions of the Reformed Church graveyard (corner of Orange and Queen St.), Shippensburg, PA (copied from list of graveyard inscriptions made by J. Zeamer in 1905), and a surname/see also index.
Vol. 2: with an index by Robert & Catherine Barnes; vol. 3: with an index by Elizabeth Petty Bentley.
Includes indexes.
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Contents
v.1: Birth and baptismal register of Trinity Lutheran Church Lancaster, Pa;Birth and baptismal register fo the First Reformed Church, Lancaster, PA; Kirchen-Matricul: Der Evengelisch Lutherischen Gemeinde in New Providenz, Pennsylvania; Records of St. Michaelis and Zion Congregation (German Evangelical Lutheran Congregation of Philadelphia): v. 2: Church register of the United Reformed and Lutheran Church in Hopewell Township, York County Pa; Records of the Williams Township Congregation (Saucon, Northampton County, Pa.); Records of baptisms, catechumens, confirmations, marriages, and deaths at the Lutheran Church in New Hanover, Montgomery County, Penna; Guide to the Old Moravian Cemetery of Bethlehem, Pa: v. 3: Church records of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge; Church records of the Old Goshenhoppen Reformed Congregation, Upper Salford Township, Morgomery County, Pa; Church record of the Great Swamp Reformed Congregation, Lower Milford Township, Lehigh County, Pa.; History of the Tohickon Union Church, Bedminster Township, Bucks County, Pa.
