Handybook for Genealogists (10th or 11th edition) and/or Ancestry's Redbook (you'll want the 3rd edition) and/or Family Tree Resource Book For Genealogists section on Pennsylvania includes maps, historical information, vital records coverage and a bibliography of resources,
Ancestry's Pennsylvania Fact Sheet
Clint. Pennsylvania Area Key (1976) (There are also several county area keys, which can be quite useful, despite being dated)
Crawford-Oppenheimer. Lost in Pennsylvania. (If you have early Pennsylvania families, you will want to use the Pennsylvania Archives... and if you want to do that, you may want this guide to this large set.)
Guide to the Manuscript Collections of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Heisey. Handbook of Genealogical Research in Pennsylvania (1985) out of print
Hoenstine. Guide to Genealogical and Historical Research in Pennsylvania 1978, with 1985 and 1990 supplements.
Iscrupe. Pennsylvania Line. A Research Guide to Pennsylvania Genealogy and Local History (1990)
Munger. Pennsylvania Land Records: A History and Guide for Research
Parker. Pennsylvania and Middle Atlantic States Genealogical Manuscripts: A User's Guide to the Manucript Collections of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania. (1986)
Schweitzer. Pennsylvania Genealogical Research
Woodroofe. A Genealogists Guide to Pennsylvania Records (1995, but originally published in the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine; still helpful, but some specifics may be out of date)
Periodicals
Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine -- with membership in the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania
-- back run on CD
Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography
Audio tapes from lectures given at genealogy conferences and seminars with the word Pennsylvania in the title
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First, bookmark or print out these FHL documents: Pennsylvania Research Outline
and Pennsylvania Historical Background.
Bookmark or print out this map of Pennsylvania counties.
See what's available at the Pennsylvania Gen Web , the ALHN/AHGP Pennsylvania page
See what you can learn from Brenda's Guide to PA Genealogy and explore the Pennsylvania Genealogy Guide . Read Tim's Tips on Pennsylania Research.
There are several major genealogical libraries in Pennsylvania.
The State Library of Pennsylvania has a large Local History and Genealogy Section.
The Pennsylvania State Archives will provide brief responses to online reference questions.
They offer a digital archives, which provides online access to some material at the archives. This very helpful site provides information on military , vital, census, prison, land, county, railroad and naturalization records, as well as mine accidents and ships lists.
This site also has scanned images of the Warrent Registers for each county T hese Warrant Registers serve as the basic index to the original
land warrants, surveys and patents for about 70% of the land in the Commonwealth
of Pennsylvania for the dates 1733-ca.1957
The Genealogical Society of Pennsylania also has a helpful web page. See especially their research and resources .
The Historical Society of Pennsylvania website provides several research guides. Start with their Family History & Genealogy guide, then explore others (use links to the left) They also offer a for-a-fee research service by mail.
To find local genealogy societies, see the Pennsylvania Genealogy Society Directory
Find out about newspapers at the website of the Pennsylvania Newspaper Project .
The 1880 census can be searched for free at Familysearch.org Find other online census records and more census information at censusfinder.com's Pennsylvania links.
To get information about vital records, check the Pennsylvania Vital Records (official page) or the Vitalrec Pennsylvania Page
Leave a query on a Pennsylvania county message board or see if one of the volunteers at Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness: Pennsylvania can help you.
If your ancestors arrived at the port of Philadelphia, you will want this guide to Philadelphia passenger lists and listing of film numbers to the 1800-1906 index.
Interment.net: Pennsylvania Cemeteries
If your family was of German speaking origin, you will want to visit Pennsylvania Dutch Family History, Genealogy, Culture and Life.
Finally, check out Pennsylvania Black Sheep Ancestors
Now look for more helpful Wisconsin links:
* Genealogy Today's State Gen Site: Pennsylvania
* Rootsweb: U.S. Resources: Pennsylvania
* Genealink's Pennsylvania Page
* Access Genealogy's List of Pennsylvania Links
* Cyndi's List Pennsylvania Page
* Linkpendium's Pennsylvania Page |
