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In this three-volume work will be found all of the family history articles publishedin The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine from its founding in 1895 (as Publications of thePennsylvania Genealogical Society) through 1980 . Here, too, will be found every Bible recordand genealogical fragment known to have been published in this authoritative periodical.For a complete list of the contents write the publisher. ... Read more

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In this three-volume work will be found all of the family history articles publishedin The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine from its founding in 1895 (as Publications of thePennsylvania Genealogical Society) through 1980 . Here, too, will be found every Bible recordand genealogical fragment known to have been published in this authoritative periodical.For a complete list of the contents write the publisher. ... Read more

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This work contains abstracts of entries of genealogical interest found in Bucks County Orphans' Court dockets. In Pennsylvania, the Orphans' Court in each county had jurisdiction to approve the settlement of estates and sale of real estate of decedents an ... Read more

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Arguing that the Quakers were a wellspring of reformist energy in American history who became by the time of the American Revolution "the embodiment of the national conscience," Gary B. Nash examines their struggles to implement their ideals of equality and toleration in the new colony of Pennsylvania.He connects political history with economic and social developments as he traces the emergence of political stability in a community wracked by conflicting political passions in its early years. ... Read more

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The Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography is a 32-volume collective biographythat was published in irregular intervals from 1914 to 1967 by the Lewis Publishing Company.Virtually all of the biographies identify the subject's date of birth, parents, spouse and children,and some provide extensive genealogical notes.

Although each of the thirty-two volumes in the Encyclopedia is separately indexed, the value ofa cumulative name index to biographies, for the purpose of expediting research in this richsource, seems self-evident. In 1932 a cumulative index to the first twenty volumes of theEncyclopedia, referring to 16,000 names, was published by the Lewis Publishing Company. Noone saw fit to prepare an index to the remaining volumes, however, until 1994 when Walter D.Stock, a professional librarian at the Free Library of Philadelphia, assembled a 26,000-nameindex to the balance of the series. Both cumulative indexes are published here in one volume forthe convenience of the researcher. In both cases the indexes furnish the name, volume, and pagenumber of every subject of a biography in the Encyclopedia. In this way, the Index constitutes acrucial new finding aid for persons with Pennsylvania ancestry. It will be of great use to themany institutions that already own the Encyclopedia of Pennsylvania Biography. Similarly,researchers who buy the Index but have no access to the Encyclopedia can write to the FreeLibrary of Philadelphia, 1901 Vine Street, Attn: Social Science and History Department,Philadelphia, PA 19103, for photocopies of short biographical entries whose subjects theyuncover in a check of the Index. ... Read more

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This important collection of ship passenger lists from The Pennsylvania Magazineof 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 thelists document arrivals at the port of Philadelphia between 1682 and 1819 and identifyapproximately 6,000 immigrants, mainly British and German, the majority being named in twoextensive lists of indentured servants and apprentices. Most of these lists were transcribed frommanuscripts in the possession of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. ... Read more

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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. (1995), 2001, 5½ x 8½, index, paper, 337 pp. ... Read more