The following newspapers and obituaries have been posted to the GenealogyBank website in the last few days. Again, good stuff!
Evening News San Jose CA 1/2/1915 to 6/30/1915 Historical Newspapers
Evening News San Jose […]
I blogged about the new GenealogyBank site a few weeks ago. Tom Kemp just sent me the following list of papers launched on the site during October. This is in addition to the 1300 titles they already had up! Amazing…
State Title Dates Collection
AK Peninsula Clarion 8/18/2006 to Current America’s Obituaries
CA Evening News 7/1/1914 to 12/30/1916 Historical Newspapers
CA San Jose Mercury News 5/1/1902 to 12/31/1916 Historical Newspapers
DC Catholic Standard 5/9/2002 […]
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection since I last blogged the site. Illya has added a tremendous amount of data - especially for New York and Pennsylvania. FTC subscribers can access this new data. Following is a table of the number of entries - by location - that I have […]
HARRISBURG, Pa., Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ — Pennsylvania’s cache of documentary resources and repositories will be highlighted during walks and tours during this year’s Archives Week. The annual observance Oct. 8 - 14 is sponsored by the Pennsylvania State Archives.
The State Archives is the official keeper of the state’s governmental records from William Penn’s 1681 charter […]
The Monroe County Historical Association will have new hours for the fall and winter season. The Stroud Mansion, located at 900 Main St. in Stroudsburg, is now open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday through Friday and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. the first and third Saturday of the month.
The Monroe County Historical […]
Wayne Motts feels right at home surrounded by decades-old books and artifacts in his office at the Adams County Historical Society.
The 39-year-old history buff has enjoyed teaching others about the past for as long as he can remember, specializing in the Civil War.
He even has a framed newspaper clipping from when he lectured a class […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: A Biographical History of Lancaster County [Pennsylvania] Being a History of Eminent Men of the County
Harris’s biographical history of Lancaster County, with articles arranged alphabetically by surname, contains nearly 2,000 biographies of early settlers and eminent men and refers in total to an additional 10,000 related […]
The book contains the known historical material of the Centennial, Brookside, Beech Grove, and Summit Methodist Episcopal Churches of Cogan House Township, Lycoming County, Pennsylvania. There are some large gaps in the material.
The wedding records include information from 1872 to present. Listed may be the name of the bride and groom, address, minister, place of […]
The previous blog about Arlene Eakle’s take on portions of The Da Vinci Code deals with the necessity of going back to original sources. The following excerpt is from an article that has been around for over a year - and I missed it. However, In it, Linda Sparks Starr points out that there may […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: 18th Century Records of the German Lutheran Church of Philadelphia (St. Michaels and Zion) Volume 4: Marriages and Confirmations
Volume 4 includes marriages recorded from 1745 through 1800 and Confirmations recorded from 1745 through 1769 and 1786.
By Robert L. Hess, Ph.D.; 2005; 5.5×8.25; 391 pp; softbound; Order […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: Merion in the Welsh Tract With Sketches of the Townships of Havorford and Radnor - Historical and Genealogical Collections Concerning the Welsh Barony in the Province of Pennsylvania Settled by the Cymric Quakers in 1682.
This is the history and genealogy of the Great Welsh Tract […]
New Book Announcement:
Based on years of extensive research conducted in Wales, this work consists of genealogical notices of Welsh emigrants to Pennsylvania, mainly between 1682 and 1700. Alphabetically arranged, it relates to nearly 300 families and 2,000 individuals, with pedigrees and charts of the first arrivals.
A sampling of the surnames covered in the lineages includes: […]
New Book Announcement:
The full title of this book is: Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory from Advertisements in German Newspapers Published in Philadelphia and Germantown, 1743-1800
This unusual compilation laid in typescript in the library of the Germantown Historical Society since 1935, until it was published by the Genealogical […]
New Book Announcement:
This is the fifth and final volume in a series. The burial records always include the decedent’s name and date of death; usually their age; sometimes their birth date and parents names; and occasionally added notes by the pastor (”Oh, he was a wild lad!”), details of the cause of death (”Johan Jurg, […]
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection in the last few days. FTC subscribers have full access to this data.
INDIANA
Tipton High School 1901 Commencement - Tipton High School, Nineteenth Annual Commencement, West Street Christian Church, Tipton, Indiana, Thursday Evening, May Sixteenth, Nineteen Hundred and One, Eight O’Clock.
IOWA
Traer High School 1906 Commencement […]
The following new small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection since I last blogged the site. The site now boasts well over 600,000 entries from rosters, membership lists, directories, pamphlets, and so forth. I especially like the entries for the Massachusettts Societies for the Detecting of Horse Thieves.
CONNECTICUT
1913 Seneca Lodge, No. 55 Roll […]
The following small databases have been added at Family Tree Connection since I last blogged the site. The website, specializing in data extracted from pamplets, rosters, membership lists and such, now has over 600,000 searchable entries - and grows daily.
ALABAMA
Anniston 1924 Telephone Directory - Telephone Directory. Southern Bell Telephone and Telegraph Co. […]
A local fundraising effort by the Kit-Han-Ne Questers 408 is allowing the Mildred Lankerd-Thomas Genealogical Library at the Armstrong County Historical and Museum Society to preserve past hardbound copies of the Leader Times on microfilm.
Carole Musick, Kit-Han-Ne Questers president, recently presented Lankerd-Thomas librarian Connie Mateer with $5,000 to continue the microfilming project. The funds were […]