Information on almost 180,000 individuals mentioned in abstracts of baptisms, births, marriages, and deaths from the registers of more than fifty Pennsylvania churches in Adams, Berks, and Lancaster counties. The information was extracted from microfilm records of transcriptions of the original records. You will find: the name of every person listed in the record, their relationship to the key person, their role in the event, date and place of the event, their residence, volume and page of the original record.
County and family histories: Pennsylvania, 1740-1900
Pennsylvania 1740-1900
ISBN
1579440932 :
Place of Publication
Novato, CA
Publisher
Brøderbund,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
2 computer laser optical discs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (23 p. ; 13 cm.)
Notes
Title from disc surface.
Disc is c1998.
"Family Tree Maker's Family Archives"--Container insert.
"CD #193."
"Family Archive CD 193"--Container.
Summary
"Contains images of the pages of fourteen comprehensive books of Pennsylvania county and family histories. Many of these volumes were published by their authors and printed in very small quantities for limited distribution, making them difficult to locate and research. The information is also valuable because statewide registration of births and deaths was not required in Pennsylvania prior to 1906. These detailed volumes contain genealogical data on approximately 275,000 Pennsylvania residents and their families... "--Container.
1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (19 p. ; 13 cm.)
Notes
Title from disc surface.
Disc is c1996.
"Family Tree Maker's Family Archives"--Container insert.
"CD #163."
"Family Archive CD 163"--Container.
Summary
"Contains images of all three volumes of Genealogies of Pennsylvania families from The Pennsylvania genealogical magazine, and one volume of Genealogies of Pennsylvania families from The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography ... contain several hundred family history articles and Bible records, and reference approximately 62,000 individuals from Pennsylvania as well as the Delaware Valley ... "--Container.
National Genealogical Society Quarterly 1600s-1900s.
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, vols. 1-85.
Responsibility
from the National Genealogical Society.
ISBN
1579440827 :
Place of Publication
Novato, CA
Publisher
Brøderbund Software,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
2 computer laser optical discs ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 manual (23 p. ; 13 cm.)
Notes
"CD #210."
Contents
This Family Archive contains page images of vols. 1-85 of the National Genealogical Quarterly (including four supplements and 4 pamphlets). The essays included here provide information on more than 701,000 individuals. An essay that references your ancestor may include information from land records, correspondence, birth and death records, marriage records, church records, county and town records, immigration records, census records, personal histories.
1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (23 p. : 13 cm.).
Notes
Title and version from disc surface.
"CD #196."
Summary
Contains ca. 476,000 individuals who lived in or who were born in Southeastern Pennsylvania before 1800. The records, found in 213 church, meeting and pastoral records were compiled by John T. Humphrey and published in the 13 volume set "Pennsylvania births".
1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (19 p. ; 13 cm.)
Notes
"Family Tree Maker's Family Archives"--Container insert.
Title from disc surface.
"CD #172."
"Family Archive CD 172"--Container.
Summary
"Contains images of virtually every article on births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths that ever appeared in the two most important Pennsylvania periodicals, The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography and The Pennsylvania genealogical magazine ... primarily cover the time period from about 1740-1830 and reference more than 87,000 individuals. For the period prior to 1820, they offer researchers one of the best opportunities for making ancestral connections in Pennsylvania ..."--Container.
Genealogical records : The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Volumes 1-39
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vols. 1-39
ISBN
1579441092
Place of Publication
[Novato, CA]
Publisher
Brøderbund Software,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (23 p. : 13 cm.)
Series
Family tree maker's family archives ;
Notes
Title from disc surface.
"CD #213."
Summary
Contains images of the pages of volumes 1 through 39 of The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine plus four supplements. Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. Contains book reviews, methodological case studies, discussions of major resources, family histories and genealogies, and research guides. Originally published between 1895 and 1995, it includes information on approximately 343,000 individuals. Information is from Society of Friends meeting minutes, death records, correspondence, personal histories, census records, church records, etc. Includes name index.
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania special publication ; no. 7
Notes
Reprinted from the Pennsylvania genealogical magazine, 40, no. 2 (Fall/winter 1997).
Includes bibliographical references.
Summary
"The published Pennsylvania Archives (PA) can be an intimidating reference source for the genealogical researcher. Its 138 vol. fill several library stacks. Yet the researcher who does look for ancestors in them may find rich veins of info., gaining clues about where his ancestor was & what the ancestor was doing at different times in his or her life. This article, reprinted from the Penna. Genealogical Mag. & is intended to demystify PA & give researchers the confidence to delve into it, discusses what types of documents the various series of PA contain, the best order to work through them to obtain the most results quickly, & routes to follow to locate a set of PA. Includes a chart summarizing each volume s contents & indexing." [from the publisher]
[Philadelphia (1305 Locust St., Philadelphia 19107-5405)
Publisher
Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania,
Date of Publication
1999]
Physical Description
11 v. ; 28 cm.
Series
Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania ;
Notes
Originally published: Philadelphia : Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1893-1904.
Vol. 7 lacks t.p.
The text is a photoreproduction of the original ms.
Includes indexes.
Contents
[1] Books A, B, C, D 1682-1726 -- [2] 1726-1747 -- pt. 3. 1747-1763 -- v. 4. 1763-1784, will books N, O, P, Q -- v. 5. 1777-1793, will books R, S, T, U & abstracts of some other counties filed in Philadelphia County -- v. 6. Boosk [sic] W, X, Y (index is in volume 7), 1790-1802 -- [7] Index to Phila. wills, 1790-1802 -- v. 8. Books 1, 2, partial 3, 1802-1809 -- v. 9. 1810-1815 -- v. 10. Books 5 (concl.), 6, partial 7, 1815-1819 -- v. 11. Books 7 (concl.), 8, 1820-1825.
Egle's Notes and queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s
Notes and queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s-1800s
Family Tree Maker
Place of Publication
[Novato, CA]
Publisher
Brøderbund Software,
Date of Publication
c1998.
Physical Description
1 computer laser optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (23 p. ; 12 cm.)
Series
Family Tree Maker's family archives ;
Notes
Title from disc label.
Includes name index.
Summary
CD-ROM version of the periodical edited by Willam H. Egle and "originally published between 1879 and 1895 as newspaper columns in the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph and ... in four annual volumes between 1896 and 1900"--Container insert.
1 computer optical disc ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 user's manual (23 p. ; 12 cm.)
Notes
Title from disc surface.
Includes "search capabilities that span all of the books on this CD"--Container insert.
"Cd #209"--Disc surface.
Summary
Contains the texts of twenty-seven volumes of Pennsylvania probate record abstracts originally published by Family Line Publications. Information on more than 250,000 individuals from counties of Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Lancaster, Delaware, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and York.
"The ninety-nine references which folloe were originally compiled and published by the Pennsylvania Genelaogical Society, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania before 1900."
Indexed, edited and republished by Adams Apple Press.
