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1. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: Resources, News & Announcements:
Accessing German Resources Online,
Thursday, 19 October 2006 — 7 p.m. to 9 p.m. — GSP Research Room.
For members with German ancestry, there is much interesting and useful information now available online. The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania is pleased to have John T. Humphrey, one of our resident German experts, offer his favorite Internet sites to help you find German sources online. More details.
Photos from the state-wide genealogical conference in Pittsburgh, September 2006.
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):
Cemetery/Funeral Director Records:
New Resource at the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania:
Helverson Funeral Home records.
The GSP volunteers have indexed our collection of fifteen volumes of Helverson Funeral Records. These records cover burials in Philadelphia from 1841 to 1900. Each volume is a photocopy of an original ledger and has an every name index. These volumes also include cemetery lot books and account books with their own indexes. This set of indexes is now available in our research room.
Cumberland County Cemeteries. ($) The Genealogy Club of the Harrisburg Area YMCA, West Shore Branch, has
compiled nine books of cemetery transcriptions encompassing almost all
of the eastern end of Cumberland County, Pennsylvania (just across the
Susquehanna River from Harrisburg).
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pawsygc/TranscriptionBooks.html Hereditary Societies:
Pennsylvania State Society, United States Daughters of 1812.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~pausd/
Immigration Records (alien registration, naturalization, ship passenger lists, etc.):
Columbia County Historical and Genealogical Society:
NATURALIZATION PAPERS.
There are 2,781 names listed in the Columbia County Naturalization Records Name Index Database #2. They are searchable by using the applicant’s surname. They cover two time periods: 1837 to 1906 and 1930 to 1956. Within these records, Certificate of Arrival, Declaration of Intention to Become a Citizen, and Petition for Citizenship, there are numerous items which provide information about the individual seeking citizenship. Depending on which records are used, one may find the following information: name, age, place of birth, date of birth, name of spouse, names of children, port of entry, date of entry, name of ship, last residence before emigrating, residence in Columbia County, occupation, physical description (sometimes a photo), and date of naturalization. It is important to remember that the amount of information will vary depending on the specific record and the time period. Records in the period 1930 to 1956 have far more information than the early period of 1837 to 1906.
http://www.colcohist-gensoc.org/index.html Obituaries/Death Notices (published):
The Erie County Public Library, Erie, has compiled
a paper obituary index for Erie County, Pennsylvania, that covers the period from 1822 to the present. The online version of this index currently covers 1960 through 2005. The index contains the last name and first name of the deceased, including nicknames and titles, and the date that the obituary appeared in the newspaper. The index is organized alphabetically by year, which you can browse year by year.
http://www.erielibrary.org/obits.html
Easton Area Public Library, Easton, has obituary indexes covering the period from 1920 through 2005. The obituaries were abstracted from the Easton Express/Express Times newspaper. The Obituary Index files are large and may take a while to download. The files are organized alphabetically by last name. Use the Find function to search the indexes. The data fields in the index include last name, first name, date on which the obituary appeared in the newspaper, and the page number.
http://www.eastonpl.org/obituary_index.htm Religious Records (church membership registries, histories, baptismal, marriage and funeral records):
Quaker Resources – Swarthmore College: many different records, including minutes of numerous yearly meetings.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/library/friends/ 3. Other (non-GSP) Non-profit and Governmental Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements:
14 October 2006,
Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society fall meeting, German Research: Exploring New Topics and Research Opportunities, at Historic Hotel Bethlehem, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
http://www.magsgen.com/meetings.html
21 October 2006,
The Pennsylvania Chapter, Palatines to America, Fall Conference at Yoder’s Banquet Hall, in New Holland, Pennsylvania. Speaker for the Conference will be Larry O. Jensen of Pleasant Grove, Utah. His lecture topics will be Understanding German Records and Jurisdictions, References and Resources for Tracing German Population Movements, and Using Maps in Doing German Genealogical Research. Pre-registration is required. For more information, call 717-687-8234.
University of Delaware holdings of genealogical interest.
http://www.math.udel.edu/~rstevens/datasets.html 5. Technology:
Internet:
Website for genealogists with Quaker interests, including an index to all the Chester county family names found in the Gilbert Cope Collection. This site includes the microfilm roll numbers for Cope’s collection, available through Family History Centers across the United States, and the world.
http://www.rootsweb.com/~quakers/
Mid-Atlantic States web resources: digitized books, maps, photos.
http://www.midatlanticarchives.com/
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| 1. Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania: Resources, News & Announcements |
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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 |
| 3. Other (non-GSP) Non-profit and Governmental Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements |
| 4. Commercial Organizations: Resources, News & Announcements |
| 5. Technology |
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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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