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Bowie: Heritage Books. New. 2008. Paperback. 154 pages. Names of owners, adjoining property owners, heirs, wives, etc. giving relationships of heirs; gives history of the land back to the original patent. Especially useful when there was not a will. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. New. (1995) 2007. Paperback. 297 pages. Every name mentioned in the will is abstracted, land tract names, residence and occupation of the deceased when given. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books Inc.. New. 2009. Paperback. 346 pages. Based on the works of volunteers of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Gives names of persons mentioned in wills, decedent, heirs, trustees, guardians, witnesses, executors, debtors, relatives, references to property being devised; .

Heritage Books Inc.. New. (1997) 2006. Trade Paperback. 222 pages. One of the original three counties of Pennsylvania from which Lancaster (1729) and Delaware (1789) Counties were formed. Thus, these volumes cover a three-county area. Included are deeds, mortgages, bonds, leases/releases, and land patented in 1681 (recorded as deeds in 1688). Recorded dates begin in 1688 with apparent gaps in 1714 (only 2 entries) and 1715 (none). Numerous entries give clues to relationships and British origins. .

Heritage Books Inc.. New. (1995) 2003. Trade Paperback. 337 pages. 1786-1820. These wills were abstracted under the auspices of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in the early 1900s. Every name mentioned in the original will is abstracted. .

Heritage Books Inc.. New. (1997) 2006. Trade Paperback. 220 pages. One of the original three counties of Pennsylvania from which Lancaster (1729) and Delaware (1789) Counties were formed. Thus, these volumes cover a three-county area. Included are deeds, mortgages, bonds, leases/releases, and land patented in 1681 (recorded as deeds in 1688). Recorded dates begin in 1688 with apparent gaps in 1714 (only 2 entries) and 1715 (none). Numerous entries give clues to relationships and British origins. .

Heritage Books. New. (1996) 2007. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 176 pages. Reprinted directly from the Pennsylvania Archives, a treasure chest of early records of that area. And for the first time an every name index! Rev. Waldschmidt's entries, which pertain to the congregations of Cocalico (Swamp), Weiseichenland (formerly Sebastian Reicher's Church), Modecreek, and Zeltenreich, are arranged in four separate alphabetical groupings. The first part, baptismal records, gives the name of the child, parents' names, date of birth and date of baptism, and the names of sponsors. Marriages come next, and they state the name of the bride and groom, the date of the marriage, and, frequently, the name(s) of the parents. Each marriage is listed twice, alphabetically according to the surname of both the bride and groom. The third section of the book lists the various communion services performed by Rev. Waldschmidt, with the names of the communicants. Finally, a separate listing of brides and… Read More

Baltimore, MD: Clearfield Co. New. 1995. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 231 pages. Christ Church was established in 1695 and was the first Episcopal church in Philadelphia. For a number of years it served the entire Anglican community, and by 1760, when St. Peter's was split off from it, more than 10,000 baptisms and burials were recorded in its registers. These registers are intact from 1709, and the baptismal and burial records are abstracted in this work and arranged alphabetically by surname. .

Baltimore: Clearfield. As New. 1995. Trade Paperback. 242 pages. Christ Church was established in 1695 and was the first Episcopal church in Philadelphia. For a number of years it served the entire Anglican community, and by 1760, when St. Peter's was split off from it, more than 10,000 baptisms and burials were recorded in its registers. These registers are intact from 1709, and the baptismal and burial records are abstracted in this work and arranged alphabetically by surname. .

Heritage Books Inc. New. (1872) 2006. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 640 pages. This hefty volume contains hundreds of biographical sketches of men who had lived in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, at some time from its early settlement down to about 1870. The sketches vary in length from a few lines to a few pages, but most provide significant biographical detail. Parents, spouses and children are frequently noted. Anyone researching Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, will want to add this important biographical source to his or her library .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books Inc.. New. 2009. Trade Paperback. 722 pages. Each entry contains the Register of Wills file number, the Will Book volume and page number where the will was recorded, name of the decedent, place of residence at the time the will was written, date the will was written, occupation if given, names and relationships of those mentioned in the will, names of executors and witnesses, and the date the will was probated. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. New. Paperback. The Bucks County Recorder of Deeds began the Miscellaneous Docket series in 1785 to record various transactions other than standard transfers of real estate. The transactions in the Miscellaneous Dockets include powers of attorney, releases of executors and administrators, releases of guardians, dower releases, assignments of property, bills of sale and freeing (manumission) of slaves. Since many of these transactions are related to estate settlements, they contain a wealth of valuable genealogical information, especially family relationships, dates of death, and occupations. This work contains abstracts of transactions recorded in Miscellaneous Docket Volumes 1-12, recorded during the period 1785-1857. Each entry contains a summary of the transaction, the volume and page where recorded and the date of the transaction (which may differ from the date the transaction was recorded). Not all transactions were abstracted-the emphasis was on… Read More

Baltimore: Genealogical Pub. Co.. New. 1985.. Trade Paperback. 123 pages. This is a record of baptisms performed by Father Helbron in his missionary travels in the seven Western Pennsylvania counties of Westmoreland, Fayette, Washington, Greene, Allegheny, Butler, and Armstrong. The Helbron register is apparently the first written record of sacramental ministrations in these outlying areas of Pennsylvania, and it is important not only because of its priority but because it comprises, in many cases, the only extant records of the Irish and German Catholics who settled this region. Over 1,500 baptisms are recorded, each entry typically giving the child's name, the dates of birth and baptism, and the parents' and sponsors' names. In all, the complete body of baptisms references some 6,000 persons.This unique register was originally translated from the Latin and published in installments between 1915 and 1917 in the Records of the American Catholic Historical Society in… Read More

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books Inc.. New. 2009. Paperback. 184 pages. Existing church records: Presbyterian; Lutheran; German Reformed; a few Episcopal; pastoral records of Reverends Bucher, Cuthbertson and Cooper; plus other sources. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. New. Paperback. Vol. 2. This compilation of genealogies is based on research that included church records, court records, and census records. Entries contain varying amounts of information. The following families are traced from early 1700s into mid-1800s: Arechtler, Bieri, Diehl, Ehrhardt, Friesner, Grimm, Hamann, Hildebrand, Keller, Kroeller, Kull, Oechner, Ragg, Schaffer, Schonhaler, Seitz, Simon, Stabler, Swartz, Welk. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books Inc. New. (1996) 2006. Paperback. 126 pages. A compilation of genealogies for the families of Doll, Boudemont, Schlater, Lohr, Kessler, Schwingell, Shultz, Boyd, Glatfelter, Engle, Weimer, and others. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books. New. 2007. Revised Edition. Paperback. Index. . 398 pages. Traces the lineages of a large portion of the German families of York County, giving exhaustive coverage of the townships of Codorus, Dover, Manchester and Shrewsbury (as the boundaries were defined at the time of the 1762 tax). Earlier and later records have been culled, sometimes reaching back to the emigrant's origins in Germany —with the help of other published material. In most cases, two or three generations are traced. .

Genealogical Publishing Company. New. 1999. Trade Paperback. 304 pages. This important collection of ship passenger lists from The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography ranges from brief name lists to full-blown articles giving passengers' places of origin, occupations, wives and children, dates of arrival, etc. With minor exceptions the lists document arrivals at the port of Philadelphia between 1682 and 1819 and identify approximately 6,000 immigrants, mainly British and German, the majority being named in two extensive lists of indentured servants and apprentices. Most of these lists were transcribed from manuscripts in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. .

Westminster, MD: Heritage Books Inc.. New. 2003. Paperback. 211 pages. Continues the series with the addition of the following families: Ashbridge, Bail(e)y, Bennett, Cloud, Garrett, Gilpin, Harvey, Hollingsworth, Hoopes, Meredith, Painter, Peirce, Way, Woodward, and Yarnall. .

Baltimore, MD: Genealogical Publishing Co. New. (1974) 1998. Reprint. Trade Paperback. 180 pages. The American Weekly Mercury was the first newspaper published in Pennsylvania and the third in British North America. In the earliest days of publication, what little genealogical material is found in the paper comes chiefly from advertisements for runaway servants or Negro and Indian slaves.In time, however, a steady stream of genealogical data--mainly marriages and deaths--began to appear. Most of the marriage entries pertained to persons of some distinction, such as governors, judges, government officials, clergymen, and eminent merchants, as well as their family members. In the case of death notices, the age of the deceased was noted, sometimes with a brief sketch of his career and with an indication of his place of birth, ancestry, and relatives. Many of the genealogical items were concerned with persons in Delaware, New Jersey, Maryland, South Carolina, and New England, as well as… Read More