A reader recently stumbled upon an article I wrote in 2019 titled Union Churches in Pennsylvania. He graciously emailed me an account written by his mother, Anna Deppen Lutz, who was born in 1928 and was "baptized, confirmed and married in St. Luke's U ...
I have been researching my husband's ancestors, the Beck family of Westmoreland County Pennsylvania. During the process of my research, I was able to locate land records for Daniel Beck and his sons. These land records provided great evidence that ...
I have been working on my four-generation project for accreditation through ICAPGen. One of the types of records I need to have a good working knowledge of for the Mid-Atlantic region is land records, so I have spent the last couple of days stu ...
I have been researching an ancestor from Pennsylvania named Jacob Fisher for over a decade. I discovered him as the father of Hannah Fisher and have put together details about his life in little bits of time over the years. He is the subject of the f ...
I am beginning to work on my four generation project for accreditation. Now that I have completed the Research Like a Pro study group I feel ready to tackle this huge endeavor. I will be tracing the paternal line of Alfred W. Beck, who was born in ...
Church records have been very valuable as I have researched the family of Jacob Fisher in Pennsylvania. Since the formal registration of births, marriages, and deaths in the state didn't begin until the late 1800s and even into the early 1900's, I h ...
As I have been researching Jacob Fisher in Northampton County, Pennsylvania for my Research Like a Pro Study Group, I have found some great records! One record set that I am really excited to have discovered is Pennsylvania Archives. These volumes ...
As I was creating my Pennsylvania locality guide in preparation for accreditation, I learned that in 1870 the federal census was enumerated twice in both Philadelphia and New York City. Wikipedia gives the following reason: Although Franci ...
The Research Objective for my Research Like a Pro Study Group involves distinguishing between two different Jacob Fishers, both enumerated in Northampton County, Pennsylvania in the 1790 US Census. In their book, Research Like a Pro, A Genealogis ...
I recently discovered the work of Ferdinand A. Brader, a Swiss artist who specialized in "creating large-scale (usually about fifty by thirty inches), bird’s-eye perspectives of farms in Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. Hundreds of his works offer an e ...
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