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14700 Townsend Road<br>Philadelphia, PA 19154-1096<br>Telephone: 215-305-2044<br>Fax: 215-305-2052<br>E-mail: [mailto:Philadelphia.archives@nara.gov Philadelphia.archives@nara.gov]<br>Internet: [http://www.archives.gov/philadelphia/ Website] <br>

:Has federal agency and court records for '''''Delaware, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia''''', and '''''West Virginia'''''. All U.S. federal censuses 1790-1940, and indexes. Also have passenger arrivals in Philadelphia 1800-1945 and Baltimore, pension and bounty land warrant applications, naturalizations 1790-1990, early federal history, diplomacy, military history, Chinese-Americans, World War II homefront, National Park Service, merchant marine, U.S. Army Corp of Engineers, federal tax evasion and smuggling cases.

1900 Pattison Avenue <br>Philadelphia, PA 19145 <br>Telephone: 215-389-1776 <br>E-mail: [mailto:info@americanswedish.org info@americanswedish.org]<br>[http://www.americanswedish.org/ Website] <br>

===Evangelical and Reformed Historical Society===

Lancaster Theological Seminary Library, 2nd floor<br>555 West James Street<br>Lancaster, PA 17603<br>Telephone: 717-290-8734<br>Email: [mailto:info@erhistoricalsociety.org info@erhistoricalsociety.org]<br>[https://erhistoricalsociety.org/ Website] <br>

:Official repository for the former Reformed Church in the United States, the Hungarian Reformed Church, the Evangelical Synod of North America, and the combined Evangelical and Reformed Church. The historical society maintains two repositories that include parish registers, leaders' biographies, and photos. Check website for hours and visiting tips.<br><br>

450 College Avenue<br>Lancaster, PA 17603<br>Telephone: 717-291-4216<br>[https://fandm.co1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_b7RSP4ZquJkeORn Online email form]<br>[https://www.fandm.edu/academics/library Website]<br>

:"Hessian" (German) soldiers in the American Revolution, history, government, Pennsylvania-German culture, U.S. Civil War.<br><br>

Quaker and Special Collections<br>James P. Magill Library<br>370 Lancaster Avenue<br>Haverford, PA 19041-1392<br>Telephone: 610-896-1175<br>Fax: 610-896-1102<br>Email: [mailto:hc-special@haverford.edu hc-special@haverford.edu]<br>[https://www.haverford.edu/library/quaker-special-collections Website] <br>

:Quaker Collection of diaries, photos, family papers, meeting and organizational records; 35,000 books, 2,400 linear feet of manuscripts.<br><br><br>

Brossman Learning Center (in the undercroft)<br>7301 Germantown Avenue<br>Philadelphia, PA 19119-1794<br>Telephone: 215-248-6383<br>Fax: 215-248-6327<br>Email: [mailto:mtairyarchives@ltsp.edu mtairyarchives@ltsp.edu] <br>[https://www.lacphila.org/ Website] <br>

:ELCA archives for Eastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Upstate New York (excluding New York City) and New England. Includes clergy and synod papers, and some parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals, confirmations) (many written in German).<br><br>

425 Lombard Street<br>Philadelphia, PA 19147<br>Telephone: 215-627-1852<br>Email: [mailto:refdesk@history.pcusa.org refdesk@history.pcusa.org]<br> [http://www.history.pcusa.org/resources/genealogy/ Website]<br>

:National archives of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). Includes biographical files, foreign missionary index, congregation vertical file index, congregation histories, and records of American Presbyterian congregations.<br><br>

500 College Avenue<br>Swarthmore, PA 19081<br>Telephone: 610-328-8496<br>Fax: 610-690-5728<br>Email: [mailto:friends@swarthmore.edu friends@swarthmore.edu]<br>[http://www.swarthmore.edu/academics/friends-historical-library.xml Website]<br>

:Documents the history of the Society of Friends (Quakers) from the 17th century to the present; 45,000 books, 60,000 photos, and 9,000 volumes of original Quaker meeting records, plus local history of the Mid-Atlantic states, and social reform movements.<br><br>

2100 Byberry Road, Suite 111<br>Philadelphia, PA 19116<br>Telephone: 267-686-2296<br>Email: [mailto:info@genpa.org info@genpa.org]<br>[https://genpa.org/ https://genpa.org/]<br>

:A FamilySearch Affiliate Library. FamilySearch Affiliate Libraries offer access to about 90% of the “locked” collections on FamilySearch.org or about 700,000,000 records! Admission to the GSP FamilySearch Affiliate Library is always free. <br>

:Appointments are required. Schedule appointments for research at the GSP FamilySearch Affiliate Library or the GSP Library by emailing [mailto:info@genpa.org info@genpa.org] or calling 267-686-2296. Admission to the GSP Library is free for members and $5 for the public. The GSP Library provides access to over 1400 books and over 200 collections of records, including indexes and transcriptions of church, cemetery, and funeral home records. Check website for hours.<br>

:GSP maintains over 200 online collections in [https://genpa.org/gsp-collections/ the Ruth Bitting Hamm Digital Library]. Many of these collections can be found in the [https://genpa.org/gsp-collections/ Member Collections] section of the website. Featured member collections include: [https://genpa.org/member-collections/mahanoyhs_berryman/ the Berryman Collection] (extensive collection of church and cemetery records and other transcriptions and family history information from several Pennsylvania counties compiled by Mrs. Walter A Berryman), [https://genpa.org/member-collections/public-ledger-newspaper-indexes/ Philadelphia Public Ledger Newspaper Indexes Collection] (fully searchable indexes to origins of immigrants, local affairs, marriages, and deaths from the Philadelphia Public Ledger: 1836 – 1878), and [https://genpa.org/member-collections/john-t-humphrey-pennsylvania-births-books/ the John T. Humphrey collection of Pennsylvania birth records]. Mr. Humphrey's collection consists of baptisms extracted from early Pennsylvania church records. John T. Humphrey, the late noted Pennsylvania genealogist, left the rights to his collections to the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. The online collection includes all 16 books representing 15 counties and the records are fully-text searchable. A helpful GSP Website Tips page gives more information on how best to use the website and learn about GSP's collections. <br>

:The Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Library includes books and collections of church, cemetery, and funeral home records, family records for early GSP members, and reference books for Pennsylvania research.  The [https://genpa.org/genealogical-society-of-pennsylvania-library-catalog/ library catalog] appears on the website, with new books and collections being added regularly. GSP has several manuscript collections and collections not yet listed online, however, the website is regularly updated. Many of GSP's old tangible materials created in the 19th and 20th centuries are now located at the [[Historical Society of Pennsylvania]].

611 Spring Garden Street <br>Philadelphia, PA 19123 <br>Telephone: 215-627-2332 <br>Fax: 215-627-5297 <br>Email: [mailto:librarian@germansociety.org librarian@germansociety.org] <br>[https://www.germansociety.org/ Website] <br>

:60,000 volumes, mostly in German. This is the largest private collection of German books in the United States outside of universities. Their purpose is to document German-American history, culture, and organizations, including biographies and publications.<br><br>

[[Image:Historical Society of Pennsylvania.jpg|thumb|right|280px|Historical Society of PA in Philadelphia]]<br>

1300 Locust Street<br>Philadelphia, PA 19107-5699<br>Telephone: 215-732-6200<br>Fax: 215-732-2680<br>Email: [mailto:ReadyReference@hsp.org ReadyReference@hsp.org]<br>[https://hsp.org/ Website] <br>

:Has early Quakers, Germans, Scots-Irish, and other settlers in William Penn's colonies of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. Records which have been published are normally well-indexed. This society also has 17th-, 18th-, and 19th-century manuscripts (letters, diaries, account books, deeds, minutes, and scrapbooks), passenger arrival lists and indexes, local and regional history, ethnic and immigrant studies materials, 600,000 books, 20 million manuscripts, over 300,000 graphics items, and 300 years of newspapers.<br><br>

Philadelphia Public Office (other public offices in Erie, Harrisburg, New Castle, Pittsburgh, and Scranton)<br>110 North 8th Street, Suite 108<br>Philadelphia, PA 19107-2412<br>Telephone: 215-560-3054<br> [https://www.health.pa.gov/topics/certificates/Pages/Vital%20Records.aspx Birth and Death Certificates]<br>

:Birth and death records 1906-present. Order in-person, [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/birth_certificates/14121/birth_records_-_by_internet/556818 order online] via VitalChek, or [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/birth_certificates/14121/birth_records_-_by_mail/556813 order births by mail], or [http://www.portal.state.pa.us/portal/server.pt/community/death_and_fetal_death_certificates/14122/death_records_-_by_mail/556827 order deaths by mail].<br><br>[[Image:Pennsylvania State Archive building.jpg|thumb|right|150px|Pennsylvania State Archives in Harrisburg]]

1681 North Sixth Street <br>Harrisburg, PA 17120<br>Telephone: 717-783-3281<br>Email: [mailto:ra-statearchives@pa.gov ra-statearchives@pa.gov]<br>[https://www.phmc.pa.gov/ Historical and Museum Commission]<br>

:Collection has indexes and original sources associated with the {{FSC|221762|item|disp=''Pennsylvania Archives''}} series, such as vital, military, prison, naturalization, land records, census, ships lists, railroads, mines, and 1.5 million online records including [https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Research-Guides.aspx online genealogy guides].<br><br>

400 North Street, Keystone Building<br>Harrisburg, PA 17120-0600<br>Telephone: 717-783-5950<br>Fax: 717-772-8268<br>[https://www.statelibrary.pa.gov/Contact/Pages/The-State-Library-of-Pennsylvania.aspx Contact list and emails]<br>[https://www.statelibrary.pa.gov/GeneralPublic/Learn/Pages/genealogy.aspx Genealogy and Local History] <br>

:Indexes, genealogy surname files, state and county histories, atlases, land records maps, ship lists, church and cemetery records, federal censuses, regimental histories, ethnic and religious group records, newspapers, heraldry, adoption, obituaries, naturalizations, military, railroads and mines, historical Pennsylvania city directories. <br><br>

4400 Forbes Avenue<br>Pittsburgh, PA 15213-4080<br>Phone: 412-622-3114<br>Email: [mailto:info@carnegielibrary.org info@carnegielibrary.org]<br> [https://www.carnegielibrary.org/ Website]  <br>

:Large book collection, newspapers, manuscripts, and county histories most of which are indexed. Also family histories, family folders, local histories and genealogies.<br><br>

55 South College Street<br>Washington, PA 15301<br>Telephone: 724-222-2400<br>Fax: 724-222-2606<br>Email: [mailto:citlib@citlib.org citlib@citlib.org]<br>[https://www.washlibs.org/citizens/ Website] <br>

:The Washington County, Pennsylvania area was an important staging area or gateway for travel into the Ohio River Valley and the West. As such, many records of travelers can be found here, and this library has the best biographical collection of these records.<br><br>

160 East Front Street<br>Erie, PA 16507 <br>Telephone: 814-451-6927 <br>Email: [mailto:reference@erielibrary.org reference@erielibrary.org]<br>[https://erielibrary.org/resources/genealogy/ Website] <br>

:Biographical section for migrants who traveled here via the Erie Canal before moving on to Ohio and farther west. Holdings include obituary index, family histories, county histories, computer genealogy databases, and on microfilm Erie newspapers and censuses.<br><br>

1901 Vine Street<br>Philadelphia, PA 19103-1157<br>(between 19th and 20th Streets on the Parkway)<br>Telephone: 215-686-5322<br> [https://libwww.freelibrary.org/contact/ Ask a Librarian form]<br>[https://libwww.freelibrary.org/locations/parkway-central-library Website] <br>

:Large book collection, periodicals and indexes, genealogies, city directories, maps, family folders, local newspapers since 1719, naturalizations, vertical files, manuscripts, photos, government publications, and histories for all of Pennsylvania.<br><br>

[[Image:Hist Soc of Western PA.JPG|thumb|right|280px|Historical Society of Western PA in Pittsburgh]]<br>Senator John Heinz History Center, Library and Archives<br>1212 Smallman Street<br>Pittsburgh, PA 15222<br>Telephone: 412-454-6364<br>Email: [mailto:library@heinzhistorycenter.org library@heinzhistorycenter.org]<br>[https://www.heinzhistorycenter.org/detre-library-archives/ Website] <br>

:Large collection for western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio, including the Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society records. 700,000 photos, 40,000 books, 3,500 individual archival collections of families, organizations, businesses, and industries, 600 periodicals, and 500 maps and atlases.<br><br>

Tuttleman Library-Gratz College<br>7605 Old York Road<br>Elkins Park, PA 19027<br>Telephone: 215-635-7304<br>Email: [mailto:library@gratz.edu library@gratz.edu]<br>[https://jgasgp.org/ Website]<br>

:Hebraica and Judaica, Jewish genealogy research manuals, society newsletters, regional cemeteries for south Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.<br><br>

2215 Millstream Road<br>Lancaster, PA 17602-1499<br>Telephone: 717-393-9745<br>Fax: 717-393-8751<br>Email: [mailto:lmhs@lmhs.org lmhs@lmhs.org] <br>[https://www.lmhs.org/ Website]<br>

:Center for studying the Pennsylvania Mennonites and Amish heritage. Historical and genealogical materials of southeast Pennsylvania, focusing mostly on Lancaster County, including an 800,000 person card index, 3000 genealogies, secular local histories, congregational histories, biographies, directories, passenger lists, atlases and maps, cemetery transcripts, censuses, databases, deeds, obituaries, orphans court records, periodicals, surname files, tax records, and wills.<br><br>

1314 Locust Street <br>Philadelphia, PA 19107<br>Telephone: 215-546-3181<br>Fax: 215-546-5167<br>Email: [mailto:cking@librarycompany.org cking@librarycompany.org] <br>[https://librarycompany.org/ Website]<br>

:Large German-American collection; helpful for documenting Civil War ancestors from Pennsylvania. Half a million rare books, manuscripts, and graphics documenting American history and culture to 1900 including African Americana, American Judaica, women's history, and photography in Philadelphia. Many early Philadelphia records.<br><br>

49 South Franklin Street<br>Wilkes-Barre, PA 18701<br>Telephone: 570-823-6244<br>Fax: 570-823-9011<br>[https://luzernehistory.org/about/our-mission/ Website]<br>

:Research New England migrants into Pennsylvania and places farther south. 13,000 family folders, transcribed wills 1787-1896, personal papers and correspondence, 10,000 photos, county and local histories, church histories, family histories, biographies, Native Americans and ethnic groups, city directories, maps, births 1893-1905, marriages 1885-1950, deaths 1886-1962, newspapers and obituaries, land records 1787-1907, and index to Orphans' Court wills, land sales, and guardians 1787-1866.<br><br>

3101 Market Street <br>Philadelphia, PA 19104<br>Telephone: 215-685-9401<br>Fax: 215-685-9409<br>[http://www.phila.gov/phils/ Website]<br>

:Births 1860-1915 (a few starting 1829), marriages 1860-1915, divorces 1851-1875, deaths 1803-1915, naturalizations 1793-1930, city directories 1785-1935, county deeds 1683-1952, county mortgages 1736-1963, constables 1854-1925, and some court records. They have indexes to early Philadelphia materials, such as tax records, prisoners, commissioners reports, mayors warrants and appointments, as well as cemeteries, board of health records, and streets.<br><br>

Samuel Paley Library<br>Berks and 13th Streets<br>Philadelphia, PA 19122<br>Telephone: 215-204-5750<br>[http://library.temple.edu/asktulibraries#quicktabs-ask_tu_libraries=2 Ask a Librarian form]<br> [https://library.temple.edu/collections/urban-archives/ Website]<br>

:Church records, fraternal groups, ethnic groups, unions, guilds, and people-oriented collection of organizations, clubs, businesses, and societies related to the growth of the Philadelphia area since the 1800s. 4 million images, 7 million news clippings, city directories, Philadelphia atlases, and Sanborn fire insurance maps.<br><br>

3420 Walnut Street <br>Philadelphia, PA 19104-6206 <br>Telephone: 215-898-7556<br>[http://www.library.upenn.edu/forms/reference.html Ask a Reference Question form]<br>[http://www.library.upenn.edu/vanpelt/ Website]<br>

:Large manuscript collection, newspapers, county records and histories, biographical sources, ethnic resources, church records, and government records. Subject specialties include Africana, Asian Americans, Chinese, French, Germans, history, immigration, Italians, Japanese, Judaic studies, Koreans, Latin Americans, Philadelphia studies, religions, Russians and East Europeans, South Asians, and Spaniards.<br><br>

701 Goode Street <br>Bristol, VA 24201-4199 <br>Telephone: 540-645-8780 <br>Fax: 276-669-5593 <br>Email: [mailto:bplref@yahoo.com bplref@yahoo.com]<br>[http://www.bristol-library.org/ Bristol Public Library]<br>

:Small family folder collection; important resource for settlers coming from '''''Pennsylvania, Maryland''''', and northern '''''Virginia'''''  along the [[Great Valley Road]] into '''''Tennessee, Kentucky''''', and '''''North Carolina'''''.

[[Image:Handley Library Winchester Virginia.jpg|thumb|220px|Handley Library Winchester Virginia]]<br><br>

100 W. Piccadilly Street<br>PO Box 58 <br>Winchester, Virginia 22604<br>Telephone: 540-662-9041<br>Fax: 540-722-4769<br>Email: [mailto:archives@handleyregional.org archives@handleyregional.org]<br>[https://www.handleyregional.org/ Website] <br>

:Large collection about Germans and Scots-Irish who traveled the [[Great Valley Road]] from '''''Pennsylvania''''' to '''''Virginia''''', including manuscripts, newspapers, biographies, and histories, and people of the Lower Shenandoah Valley since 1732, emphasizing Winchester and Frederick County in 4000 books, county court abstracts, county histories, genealogies, regimental histories, battles, newspapers since 1787, censuses, 600 linear feet of manuscripts, maps, photos, and oral history tapes.<br><br>

[[Image:Library of Congress Jefferson Building.jpg|thumb|right|450px|Library of Congress Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C.]]<br>

101 Independence Ave. SE <br>Thomas Jefferson Building, LJ G4 <br>Washington, D.C. 20540-4660 <br>Telephone: Reading Room: 202-707-5537<br>Fax: 202-707-1957 <br>Email:  [http://www.loc.gov/rr/askalib/ask-genealogy.html Ask a Librarian]<br>[http://www.loc.gov/rr/genealogy/ Website] <br>

:Genealogical guides and indexes. Part of the world's largest library including 50,000 genealogies, 100,000 local histories, and collections of manuscripts, microfilms, maps, newspapers, photographs, and published material, strong in North American, British Isles, and German sources. Includes one of the best '''Pennsylvania''' collections in the world.<br><br>

U.S. History, Local History & Genealogy Division<br>Fifth Avenue and 42nd Street, Room 315S<br>New York, NY 10018-2788<br>Telephone: 212-930-0829<br>[http://www.nypl.org/locations/tid/36/node/126488 Ask a librarian form]<br>[http://www.nypl.org/ Website]<br>

:One of the largest research libraries in the world, including excellent genealogical resources for '''Pennsylvania'''. The library has city and telephone directories, vital records indexes, local histories, genealogies, federal and state censuses, passenger lists, genealogical collections (including DAR transcripts), and church records. For maps, write to the Map Division at the same address.<br><br>

State University of New York<br>280 Central Ave<br>Fredonia, NY 14063<br>Telephone: Library 716-673-3184; Special Collections 716-673-3183;<br>Special Collections Fax: 716-673-3185<br>Email: [mailto:reedref@fredonia.edu reedref@fredonia.edu]<br>[http://www.fredonia.edu/library/ The State University of New York at Fredonia Daniel A. Reed Library]<br>[http://fredonia.libguides.com/archives/holland Holland Land Company] historical background, contents, inventory, supplementary collections, and Holland Land Company records in other libraries.<br>

:The '''State University of New York at Fredonia Daniel A. Reed Library''' has indexes to, and most of the original patents (first deeds) showing the transfer of land ownership between 1801 and 1840 from the '''[[New_York_Land_and_Property#Land_Companies|Holland Land Company]]''' (1789-1869) to private individuals in western New York and '''Pennsylvania'''. Some names on the patents could be fictitious. Other collections include American Indian records including primarily the Seneca, with some for the Cayuga, Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, and Tuscarora tribes, local histories for Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties, and the bordering counties in New York and Pennsylvania, manuscripts including church papers, and databases.<br><br>

[[Image:Connecticut Western Reserve in northeast Ohio.png|thumb|right|280px|Western Reserve Hist Soc in Cleveland OH]]<br>10825 East Boulevard <br>Cleveland, OH 44106-1788 <br>Telephone: 216-721-5722 x1509 <br>Fax: 216-721-0645 <br>Email: [mailto:reference@wrhs.org reference@wrhs.org] <br>[http://www.wrhs.org/research/library/genealogy/ Family History and Genealogical Research]<br>

:The Western Reserve was a large part of Ohio at first intended for settlement by '''Connecticut''' Revolutionary War refugees. The '''Research Library''' at the '''''Western Reserve Historical Society''''' ''History Center '' is the premier repository for Cleveland, Ohio and the ''Connecticut Western Reserve '' history material. This important collection includes original land records, as well as many genealogies, biographies, histories, and Bibles from '''Pennsylvania''', New York, and New England. Includes over 20 million manuscripts for genealogical research and northeast Ohio history. They have the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Shaker materials. Other important collections include the American Civil War, and the automotive industry.<br>