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• 18th Century PA German Name Spelling Idiosyncrasies

• 18th Century PA German Naming Customs

• 18th Century PA German Nicknames

• A Directory of Orphanages for Allegheny County, Pennsylvania And Some Adjacent Counties

• Ancestry.com - Pennsylvania, County Slave Records 1780-1834 $

  Original source: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription. Free articles and helpful research materials.

• Ancestry.com - Search Stories, Memories & Histories

  Ancestry.com has searchable indexes; database results and some digitized images are available with a fee-based subscription.

  • The Jew in America

    Original source: Philipson, David,. The Jew in America. Cincinnati: Central Conference of American Rabbis, 1909.

  • The Russian Jew in the United States : studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, with a description

    Original source: The Russian Jew in the United States : studies of social conditions in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, with a description of rural settlements. Philadelphia: J.C. Winston Co., 1905.

• Biographical Dictionary of Pennsylvania Legislators

  Historical essays about Pennsylvania legislators during the colonial, Revolutionary War, and early national periods.

• Communities in Common: Black History in Pennsylvania Study $

  Ebook from the Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission.

• COROINN

  Researching various populations with some origin or connection to Pennsylvania communities and families. A variety of information pertaining to Krefeld German, Penn Family, Updegraeff, Centre County Families, and Black Mulatto and Allied Families Centre County.

• FamilyHart Pennsylvania Dutch DNA Projects

  Pennsylvania Dutch Surname DNA Projects: BRENNEMAN, BRENEMAN, DEARDORFF, DIERDORFF, GLATTFELDER, GLATFELTER, GLADFELTER, CLODFELTER, CLOTFELTER, GLOTFELTY, GLODFELTER, HOLLINGER, HOLLIGER, KAUFFMAN, COFFMAN, KAUFMAN, CAUFMAN, KAUFMANN, KOHR, CORE, KORE, KUR, MYERS, MEYERS, MEYER, MYER, MEIER, NEUENSCHWANDER, NICESWANDER, NEWCOMER, NEUKOMMET, PRICE, PREITZ, PREISS, RHYNE, RHINE, RINE, RHINES, SCHURCH, SHIRK, SHERK, SHERRICK, STANGER, STENGER, STAUFFER, STOUFFER, STOVER, STURM, STORM, STORMS, STURMS.

• First Families of Pennsylvania | Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania

  First Families of Pennsylvania (FFP) is a lineage society open to any GSP member who can prove descent from a resident of what is now Pennsylvania, beginning in 1638.

• First Families of Western Pennsylvania

  Lineage Society open to Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society members who can prove an ancestor's residence in any of the 26 counties in western Pennsylvania before 31 Dec 1810.

• GEDCOM Index - Pennsylvania

  Index of GEDCOM files found online, arranged by surname and given name.

• GenealogyMagazine.com - 947 New Jerseyites, Pennsylvanians, and New Yorkers in 1808

  The following lists the sponsors of Charles Drellincourt's The Christian's Defence of Death; With Seasonable Directions How to Prepare Ourselves to Die Well. A list of book subscribers was given in the conclusion of the volume, which was published by James Oram in Trenton, New Jersey.

• History of slavery in Pennsylvania - Wikipedia

• irishphiladelphia.com | Category Archive | Genealogy

  This site contains links and message boards specifically aimed at those whose ancestors were Irish settlers in the Philadelphia, New Jersey, and Wilmington, DE region, as well as cultural and historical information about the Irish in the Philadelphia area.

• Italian American Program | Heinz History Center

  From the Senator John Heinz Pittsburgh Regional History Center. Preserves and interprets the history and culture of people of Italian descent in Western Pennsylvania.

  • The Collection

    Collection includes: textiles, utensils, tools, sculptures, housewares, and other three-dimensional items; thousands of archival materials in the form of books, photographs, immigration materials, family papers, and records from businesses and fraternal organizations; oral histories from more than 300 first, second, and third generation Italian Americans.

• List of Molly Maguires from Pinkerton & Reading Railroad Files

• Online County and Town Histories - Pennsylvania

  This site provides over 3,000 links to free county and town histories published from 1850 to the early 1920s. These histories often contain detailed biographies of their citizens.

• Our Family Tree - Pennsylvania Genealogy

  Collection of family trees and resources for the state of Pennsylvania: Kilgore, Baker, Jones, Conn, Smith, Alexander, Gottshall, Evans, Sill, Boone