Pennsylvania Compiled Genealogies: Difference between revisions

[[Daughters of the American Revolution|Daughters of the American Revolution]] (DAR) Collection. This large collection includes transcripts of Bible, cemetery, church, genealogy, and vital records from Pennsylvania. It was microfilmed at the DAR Library in Washington, D.C. The Pennsylvania records are on 104 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=854965 854965].  

Chester County Historical Society (West Chester, Pennsylvania), ''Genealogical Manuscripts up to 1968''. (On 104 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=563394 563394] item 2.) The only index to these records is in General Card Index, a 70-80 drawer card file at:  

'''[http://www.cchs-pa.org/index.php Chester County Historical Society]''' (West Chester, Pennsylvania). ''Genealogical Clippings File, up to 1968''. (On 151 Family History Llibrary films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=560531 560531].) This includes newspaper clippings, books, and articles arranged alphabetically in two sections.  

[http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/h/huguenot3009.htm '''Huguenot Society of Pennsylvania'''.] The society and the Family History Library have Application Papers and an ancestor index (on 12 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=468233 468233]).  

[http://www.hsp.org/default.aspx?id=2 '''Historical Society of Pennsylvania''']. This society and the Family History Library have Genealogical Collections: Families of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, etc., 1700-1950 and the Edmunds and Lukens collections (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=540684 540684]-97).  

[http://www.statelibrary.state.pa.us/libraries/site/default.asp '''State Library of Pennsylvania''']. The state library and the Family History Library have the Genealogical Surname Card Index (on 42 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1002825 1002825] item 2). This indexes local histories, family histories, periodicals, and many compilations of cemetery, church, and Bible records at the state library. The call numbers listed are for that library. However, many of the sources are also available at the Family History Library.  

'''Manuscript Card Catalog of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania'''(also called the "Manuscript Material Index" or the "Genealogical Material Index"). This is a very helpful index to many collections at the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=377629 377629]-37). This source indexes many collections, such as the Buckman, Clement, Cope, and Justice collections, and manuscripts. It references persons, places, families, localities, and events. It includes all manuscript collections listed below, except the Ely and Gerberich collections.  

Family Records Arranged Alphabetically. (On 360 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=345738 345738].)  

Family Records No. 2 "F.C. Collection." (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=525531 525531-82].)  

Genealogical Notes. 33 volumes and indexes. (On 20 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=522153 522153].)  

Gilbert Cope Collection of Family Data. This collection is especially important for Quaker research. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=517003 517003]-78.)  

Warren S. Ely ''Collection of Genealogical Data, Letters (Eastern Pennsylvania Families)''. (On 46 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=511938 511938].)  

Albert H. Gerberich ''Collection of Pennsylvania German Families''. This collection is alphabetically arranged in 6 sets. (On 16 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=522107 522107] and [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=522119 522119].)  

William H. Mervine ''Collection of Genealogical Notes''. (On 119 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=503279 503279].)  

Sophie Seldon Rogers Collection (Genealogical Material). Indexed and in alphabetical order. (On 45 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=511759 511759].)  

Egle, William Henry, ed. ''Notes and Queries: Historical, Biographical, and Genealogical, Relating Chiefly to Interior Pennsylvania''. 1894-1904. Reprint, Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1971; on 5 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1698260 1698260].) This is listed in the Place Search of the Family History Library Catalog under PENNSYLVANIA - HISTORY - PERIODICALS. An index to this source is:  

Schory, Eva Draegert. ''Everyname Index to Egle's Notes and Queries''. 2 vols. (Family History Library Book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=39931&disp=Everyname+index+to+Egle%27s+notes+and+qu%20%20&columns=*,0,0 974.8 B2nq]) Decatur, Illinois: Decatur Genealogical Society, 1982.Vol. 1 had indexes to series 1-4; vol. 2 has an index to the five annuals, 1896-1900.  

''Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families: From the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine''. 3 vols. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1982.  These are reprints of family histories published from 1895 to 1980. (Family History Book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=91100&disp=Genealogies+of+Pennsylvania+families%20%20&columns=*,0,0 974.8 D2g]

''Genealogies of Pennsylvania Families: From the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography''. Baltimore, Maryland.: Genealogical Publishing, 1981. Family History Book [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=230084&disp=Genealogies+of+Pennsylvania+families%20%20&columns=*,0,0 974.8 D2p]   

Jordan, John W., et. al. ''Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania''. 11 vols. New York, NY: Lewis Publishing, 1911-65; vols. 1-5 on 3 Family History Library films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1697635 1697635].)  

''Pennsylvania Archives''. 135 vols. Philadelphia, PA: J. Severns, 1851-1935. (Family History Library on 65 films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=824438 824438] item 2; on 302 fiche starting with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=6051521 6051521].) This set of volumes is published in nine series. The volumes contain significant documents including but not limited to: militia and muster rolls, church records, colonial land warrants, tax lists, vital records, governor's papers, etc. The Family History Library has only the first seven series. An explanation of the contents of these series is:  

Eddy, Henry Howard. ''Guide to the Published Archives of Pennsylvania''. Harrisburg, PA: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, 1976. (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=908202 908202] item 2.) It includes the missing names STERNFELDT-STINOR in volume 5 of the index in the Seventh Series  

Rider, Fremont, ed. ''American Genealogical- Biographical Index''. Vols. 1-186+. Middletown, Connecticut: Godfrey Memorial Library, 1952-. (Family History Library on 31 films beginning with [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1698167 1698167].) This is a continuing series.  

To help interpret citations and locate the original sources, use the colored pages in some volumes or Patricia L. Clark and Dorothy Huntsman, eds., ''American Genealogical Biographical Key Title Index ''(Salt Lake City, Utah: Genealogical Society of Utah, 1990; Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1698167 1698167] item 4; fiche [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=6088377 6088377]). It indicates which sources are at the Family History Library and gives their call numbers.  

Jordan, John W., ed. ''Genealogical and Personal History of Northern Pennsylvania''. 3 vols. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913. (Family History Library films [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=946642 946642]-3.)  

Jordan, John W. ''Genealogical and Personal History of the Allegheny Valley, Pennsylvania''. 3 vols. New York, NY: Lewis Historical Publishing, 1913. (Family History Library film [http://www.familysearch.org/eng/library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=filmhitlist&columns=*%2C0%2C0&filmno=1000540 1000540] items 3-5.) This area includes the counties of Allegheny, Armstrong, Clarion, Forest, Venango, Warren, and Westmoreland.