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1. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: Resources, News & Announcements:
GSP TechSIG meeting: "Posting Family History Information on the Internet: Pros, Cons, Dos and Don’ts,"
Thursday, 20 April 2006 — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. — GSP Research Room.
Michael Freeland will discuss what every genealogist should know before uploading their family trees to the Internet.
We welcome contributions to this resource page. Please send the information (including the URL, if any) in an email to GSP.techsig@verizon.net (with Timely Res in the Subject Line). Thanks!
2. Genealogical Resources (by type):
Family Histories (incl.genealogy charts):
Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers
of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors by H. Frank Eshleman. This 1917 work focusing on Lancaster County has been reprinted by GPC. (Note that this work is also available via HeritageQuest Online.)
http://www.genealogical.com/products/Historic%20Background%20and%20Annals%20
of%20the%20Swiss%20
and%20German%20Pioneer%20Settlers/1700.html
A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776
Second Revised and Enlarged Edition by Israel Daniel Rupp, with an Index by Ernst Wecken from the Third Edition (1931) and Added Index to Ships. Another 2006 reprint from GPC. (Note that this work is also available on CD-ROM and via HeritageQuest Online.)
http://www.genealogical.com/products/A%20Collection%20of%20Upwards%20of%20
Thirty%20Thousand%20Names%20of%20German,%20Swiss,%20Dutch,%20French%20and%20
Other%20Immigrants%20in%20Pennsylvania%20from%201727%20to%201776/5045.html Immigration Records (alien registration, naturalization, ship passenger lists, etc.):
Castle Garden. If your ancestors arrived at New York between 1830 and 1892 (prior to when Ellis
Island opened), check this site where there are more than 10 million names.
http://www.castlegarden.org/
Reference Works:
Pennsylvania Genealogy Guide. Links to many online records. And there's links to a NY and OH guide too.
http://pennsylvaniagenealogyguide.com/
3. Other (non-GSP) Non-profit and Governmental Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements:
ArchiveGrid from RLG will be free through at least May 31. It is a consolidated searchable index to manuscripts in thousands of archives, historical societies, etc.
http://archivegrid.org/web/jsp/index.jsp
4. Commercial Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements:
GenealogyBank from NewsBank. A massive new online database of early American books, newspapers, etc., will be available soon. It will index the full text of these documents in addition to supplying images of the documents. This service is expected to be available around the end of the year; details should be announced at http://www.newsbank.com. (Thanks to Dick Eastman for early notification about this.)
http://blog.eogn.com/eastmans_online_genealogy/2006/03/americas_geneal.html
5. Technology:
Genealogical Software:
Personal Ancestry Writer II, version 50 has been released. This is a free genealogy program for Macintosh systems.
http://www.lanopalera.net/Genealogy/AboutPAWriter.html 6. Miscellaneous:
Categories
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Biographical Records |
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Birth Records (official) |
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Cemetery/Funeral Director Records |
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Census Records (local population, agricultural, manufacturing, mortality) |
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Church Records (see Religious Records ) |
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Correctional Facilities/Prison Records |
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Court Records (civil/criminal case files, justice of the peace and magistrate BUT NOT death or probate records; see those categories below) |
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Death Records (official) |
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Directories (business, city, professional, rural, telephone) |
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Ethnic Genealogy |
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Family Histories (incl.genealogy charts) |
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Genetics and DNA |
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Hereditary Societies |
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Hospital Records (private/public health & welfare facilities) |
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Immigration Records (alien registration, naturalization, ship passenger lists, etc.) |
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Instructions in Genealogical Research |
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Land and Property Records (land grants, patents, deeds, property tax lists/rolls, etc.) |
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Local and County Histories |
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Maps & Gazetteers; Migration Routes |
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Marriage and Divorce Records (official) |
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Military & Veterans' Records (service records, pension records, soldiers' bonus records, draft registration, grave registries) |
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Names, Surnames |
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Obituaries/Death Notices (published) |
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Oral History |
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Organization Records (business, labor, fraternal/patriotic, other non-business) |
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Photographs; Portraits; Private Motion Pictures |
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Private Papers (diaries/journals, correspondence, unpublished autobiographies, Bibles, etc.) |
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Probate Records (incl. wills and related estate settlement papers) |
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Published Histories and Genealogical Works |
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Publishing (incl. self-publishing, publishing on CDs and the Web) |
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Reference Works |
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Religious Records (church membership registries, histories, baptismal, marriage and funeral records) |
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School Records (private, public & religious educational institutions) |
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Timelines |
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Tours |
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Genealogical Data Formats |
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Data Formats and Organization -- General |
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CD-ROMs |
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Digital Cameras, Scanners; Digitization of Records |
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Genealogical Software |
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Internet |
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