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FAMILY ARCHIVE CDs
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Family Archive CD #512
The ten books included on this CD--which were originally published or
reprinted by the Genealogical Publishing Company--contain newspaper abstracts,
naturalization records, land records, court records, and family histories which
identify approximately 200,000 people who lived in Pennsylvania during the
colonial and Revolutionary War periods. Compared with that of its neighbors,
Pennsylvania's colonial population was extraordinarily diverse, featuring not
only a broad mixture of national cultures (Welsh, Irish, Scotch-Irish, German,
Swiss, English, etc.), but a vibrant mix of religions--Quakers, Mennonites,
Presbyterians, Pietists, Lutherans, Anglicans, and so on. This diversity,
accounted for by the large number of "foreigners" in its population,
has always set Pennsylvania apart, especially in terms of its early records and
documents. For example, its colonial archives, for example, many more records of
naturalization and oaths of allegiance than any other colony; and at least three
of the books featured on this CD are devoted to naturalizations, denizations,
and oaths of allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania.
Among other well-known Pennsylvania record sources captured here are
genealogical abstracts from Ben Franklin's Pennsylvania Gazette, the most
influential newspaper of the 18th century; land records compiled by William
Penn's Commissioners of Property, naming tenants and owners; indexes to the
minutes of the Provincial Council and the Supreme Executive Council,
Pennsylvania's earliest official records; lists of Germans who arrived in
Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1775 and from 1786 to 1808; and genealogies of
colonial and Revolutionary families, each starting with the first known
Pennsylvania settler and proceeding in a direct line of descent to family
members who lived in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Books included on this CD:
*Virginia Court Records in Southwestern Pennsylvania
*Index to Pennsylvania's Colonial Records Series
*Early Pennsylvania Land Records
*Colonial and Revolutionary Families of Pennsylvania
*Names of Foreigners Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and
State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775
*Persons Naturalized in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1740-1773
*Names of Persons Who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the State of
Pennsylvania Between the Years 1777 and 1789
*Abstracts from Ben Franklin's "Pennsylvania Gazette," 1728-1748
*Abstracts from "The Pennsylvania Gazette," 1748-1755
*Genealogical Abstracts from "The American Weekly Mercury,"
1719-1746
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| Item Number: | 401C-7512 |
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