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Pennsylvania German pioneers; a publication of the original lists of arrivals in the port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808
By Ralph Beaver Strassburger, 1934. Norristown, Penn., Pennsylvania German Society
Pennsylvania USGenWeb Archives County & Archivists List
Gottlieb Mittelberger’s Journey to Pennsylvania in the Year 1754 and Return to Germany in the Year 1754
Containing not only a description of the country according to its present condition, but also a detailed account of the sad circumstances of most of the Germans that have emigrated, or are emigrating to that country
By Gottlieb Mittelberger, 1898
Genealogical data relating to the German settlers of Pennsylvania and adjacent territory from advertisements in German newspapers published in Philadelphia and Germantown. 1743-1800
by Edward W. Hocker, 1935
The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans; Embracing an Account of Their Origin, Their History, and Their Dialect
byWilliam Beidelman, 1898
PENNSYLVANIA ARCHIVES
Colonial Records: A total of sixteen volumes containing the minutes of the Provincial Council, 1683-1775, in Volumes I-X; those of the Council of Safety (and of the Committee of Safety), 1775-1777, in X and XI; and those of the Supreme Executive Council, 1777-1790, in XI-XVI. These were printed directly from the manuscript books with no editing apparent Issued 1838-1853.
First Series: These twelve volumes reproduce papers selected chiefly from the files at the office of the Secretary of the Commonwealth, printed in chronological order to parallel and supplement Colonial Records. The earliest materials are dated 1664 and the latest 1790. Well edited by Samuel Hazard and issued 1852-1856.
Second Series: In its nineteen volumes this series, contains varied and diverse materials; militia rolls and church records are prominent, but there are as well the minutes of the Board of War and those of the Navy Board, both of 1777, and much on the Wyoming Controversy with Connecticut and on the Whiskey Insurrection. Edited by John B. Linn and Dr. William Henry Egle through Volume XII, and by Dr. Egle alone for the remainder of the series. Issued 1874-1890.
Third Series: The first twenty-six volumes of this series resemble closely those of the Second Series, while the last four volumes consist of an index to the sixteen volumes immediately preceding. Filled for the most part with militia rolls and lists of land warrantees and taxables, this series does contain some materials of a more general nature, such as a discussion of Virginia's claims to western Pennsylvania, and an account of the Donation Lands. Edited by Dr. Egle (I-XXVI) with four index volumes edited by Dr. George Edward Reed. Issued 1894-1899.
Fourth Series: In twelve volumes, this series collects the addresses, messages, proclamations, and a very few other Papers of Pennsylvania's Governors, 1681-1902, with brief biographies and portraits but with a minimum of documentation. Edited by Dr. George Edward Reed and issued 1900-1902.
Fifth Series: This series fills eight volumes with muster rolls and other military lists, chiefly of the provincial and revolutionary period, some reprinted with greater accuracy and neatness from the Second and Third Series, and certain of the others taken from sources outside official custody. Edited by Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery and issued in 1906.
Sixth Series: For fourteen volumes this series continues the printing of military rolls, covering chiefly the period from the Revolution to the War of 1812, including militia rolls for the years of peace, with some material as late as the Mexican War. There are also a few orderly books, military accounts for the 1812 period, and some papers non-military in nature, notable church records of marriages and baptisms, inventories of estates confiscated during the Revolution, and scattering eighteenth century election returns. The final volume, XV, bound in two thick parts, contains an index to the Fifth Series. Edited by Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery and issued 1906-1907.
Seventh Series: The five volumes of this series consist exclusively of an index to the more than one million names found in the first fourteen volumes of the Sixth Series. The Seventh Series was intended to include in additional volumes the Executive Minutes which later were published as the Ninth Series, but publication halted with the death of L.R. Kelker, Custodian of Public Records, in 1915. Compiled by Kelker and his assistants in the Division of Public Records under the direction of Dr. Thomas Lynch Montgomery and issued in 1914.
Eighth Series: In eight volumes, this series reprints the eighteenth- century edition of Votes and Proceedings of the House of Representatives of the Province of Pennsylvania, 1682-1776. The first five volumes bear the name of Gertrude MacKinney as editor, and the last three the name of Dr. Charles F. Hoban. Issued 1913-1935.
Ninth Series: In ten volumes, this series prints the contents of fifteen manuscript volumes preserved in the Division of Public Records. These are Executive Minutes, a journal of official actions of Pennsylvania's Governors for the period 1790-1838. This series continues Colonial Records and supplements the Fourth Series for the effective period of the Constitution of 1790. Bears the name of Gertrude MacKinney as editor. Issued 1931-1935.
https://www.phmc.pa.gov/Archives/Research-Online/Pages/Published-PA-Archives.aspx
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Adams County
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General History
1886 History of Adams County, Pennsylvania: Containing History of the Counties, Their Townships, Towns, Villages, Schools, Churches, Industries, Etc., Portraits of Early Settlers and Prominent Men, Biographies by Henry C. Bradsby, Seheely Aaron, Michael A. Leeson
History of Cumberland and Adams counties, Pennsylvania : containing history of the counties, their townships, towns, villages, schools, churches, industries, etc.; portraits of early settlers and prominent men; biographies; history of Pennsylvania, statistical and miscellaneous matter, etc., etc
by Samuel P. Bates
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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Personal History
by E. Howard Blackburn, William Henry Welfley, and William Henry Koontz, 1906
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| Berks County |
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General History
History of the counties of Berks and Lebanon
By Daniel Israel Rupp, 1844
History of Berks county in Pennsylvania
By Morton L. Montgomery, 1886
History of Berks County, PA, in the Revolution, from 1774 to 1783
By Morton Luther Montgomery, 1894;
Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania : Embracing a Concise History of the County and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Representative Families
By Morton L. Montgomery , 1909
The Story of Berks County
By Francis Wilhauser Balthaser and D. K. Hoch, 1913
Travels through Berks County in 1783
By John D. Schoepf, 1891
The Indians of Berks County, Pa., being a summary of all the tangible records of the aborigines of Berks County, with cuts and descriptions of the varieties of relics found within the County
By David B. Brunner, 1897
Some Early Townships of Berks County, Their Settlers and Enterprises
From Morton Montgomery, History of Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1909, extracted from pp. 298-310.
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Townships, Towns and Villages
Tulpehocken Settlement and Township
Tulpehocken Genealogy (in Berks County, PA)- LDS Genealogy
The Tulpehocken bi-centennial commemorated in a four-day celebration at Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania
Tulpehocken Historic District
Tulpehocken Settlement Historical Society
Womelsdorf
Conrad Weiser
Womelsdorf Genealogy
Annals of Womelsdorf, Pa., and community, 1723-1923 : history's yard-stick for two-hundred years
By P. C. Croll
History of Longswamp
Longswamp Township Historical Society
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Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church, Tulpehocken
Records of Rev. John Casper Stoever : baptismal and marriage, 1730-1779
By Johann Casper Stoever
Hain’s Reformed Church
Berks County, Pennsylvania, 1745-1805: Cacusi or Hain's Reformed Church Records
History of St. John's (Hain's) Reformed church in Lower Heidelberg Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania
By William Jacob Kershner, 1916
Longswamp Reformed Church
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Pennsylvania German Heritage Center
Berks County, Pennsylvania Records (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)
Berks County Maps
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History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania
By J. Simpson Africa, 1883
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| Bucks County |
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History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time (Volume 1 and 2)
By William W. H. Davis, 1903
History of Bucks County, Pennsylvania: From the Discovery of the Delaware to the Present Time (Volume 3)
By William W. H. Davis, 1905
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Huntingdon County
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History of Huntingdon and Blair counties, Pennsylvania
By J. Simpson Africa, 1883
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| Lancaster County |
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General History
An Authentic History of Lancaster County : in the State of Pennsylvania
By Jacob Isidor Mombert, 1869
History of Lancaster County : to Which is Prefixed a Brief Sketch of the Early History of Pennsylvania
By Israel Daniel Rupp, 1844
Annals of the Conestoga Valley in Lancaster, Berks and Chester Counties, Pennsylvania
This volume Contains over Two Hundred Years of Local History of an American Earthly Paradise; Compiled and Published by C. Z. Mast, Elverson, PA and Robert E. Simpson, Churchtown, PA, 1842
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Boehm's Methodist Church
Boehm's Chapel, built in 1791, was the first Methodist Church in Lancaster County and is the oldest existing structure built for Methodist worship in Pennsylvania and the fourth oldest in the nation.
Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society
Swamp Reformed Church
Rev. John Waldschmidt memorial, 1724-1786: monument erected under the auspices of the Swamp Reformed Church
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Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Records (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)
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| Lebanon County |
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General History
A History of Lebanon County Prior to 1876, Read Before the Lebanon County Historical Society, October 31, 1913,
by Ezra Grumbine
William M. Breslin, Lebanon County Historical Society, 1913
The German Newspapers of Lebanon County; Read Before the Lebanon County Historical Society, April 13, 1910
By Daniel Miller, 1910
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Lebanon County, Pennsylvania Records (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)
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| Lehigh County |
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General History
History of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania and a Genealogical and Biographical Record of its Families
by Charles Rhodes Roberts, John Baer Stoudt, Thomas H. Krick, William Joseph Dietrich, and the Lehigh County Historical Society, 1914
History of the counties of Lehigh and Carbon, in the commonwealth of Pennsylvania
by Alfred Mathews
Lehigh County- Charles Kiernan 1999
Lehigh County Historical Society
The Lower Jordan Valley Pennsylvania German settlement
by David G. Williams, 1950
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Early Settlers by Township
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FamilySearch List of Church Records
Ancestry Church Records (must have Ancestry account open)
List of Lehigh Cemeteries in Lehigh County
Upper Milford Reformed Congregation, now Zion's Reformed Church
Ziegel’s Church
Zion Lehigh Evangelical Lutheran Church
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FamilySearch
Pennsylvania Genealogy Trails
Lehigh County, Pennsylvania Records (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)
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| Montgomery County |
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General History
History of Montgomery County
by Theodore Weber Bean, 1884
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A History of the Goshenhoppen Reformed Charge, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania (1727-1819)
By William John Hinke, 1920
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| Northampton County |
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1752 History of Northampton County, Pennsylvania with Illustrations Descriptive of its Scenery
By Peter Fritts, 1877
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| Northumberland County |
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General History
Genealogical and Biographical Annals of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania .
by J. L. Floyd 1911
History of Northumberland County, Pennsylvania
By Herbert C. Bell. 1891
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Northumberland County, Pennsylvania Records (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)
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| Schuylkill County |
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General History
History of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania ... Including a Genealogical and Biographical Record of Many Families and Persons in the County
By Adolf W. Schlack, 1907
History of Schuylkill County, Pa.
Publisher: W. W. Mumsell, NY
Biographical and Portrait Cyclopedia of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Comprising a Historical Sketch of the County by Samuel T. Wiley ; Together with About Five Hundred and Fifty Biographical Sketches of the Prominent Men and Leading Citizens of the County
By Henry W. Ruoff, 1893
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Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania Records (Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness)
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| Snyder County |
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General History
The Story of Snyder County From its Earliest Times to the Present Day ...
By George F. Dunkelberger, 1948
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| Somerset County |
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History of Bedford and Somerset Counties, Pennsylvania, with Genealogical and Personal History
by E. Howard Blackburn, William Henry Welfley, and William Henry Koontz, 1906
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| York County |
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History of York County Pennsylvania
By George R. Prowell, J. H. Beers, 1907
Volume I
Volume II
History of York County Pennsylvania From the Earliest Time to the Present
By John Gibson, Editor
F.A. Battey Publishing Co., Chicago, 1886
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