Marriages, deaths, legal notices, property sales, chancery court cases, intentions to move, local events-any item relating to an individual is abstracted here. This volume contains about 3,500 names. An index to full names and places adds to the value of

Taken from issues held by the Lancaster County Historical Society & the Library of Congress. Entries of different newspapers sometimes conflicted as to ages, dates, spelling of names etc. These disparities are noted.

Includes present-day Adams County. Taken exactly as written in the published Third Series, Pennsylvania Archives (1897).

In 1904, Jane Baldwin published the first volume of The Maryland Calendar of Wills series. The purpose of her work, as expressed in her introduction, was to meet the need of students of history and genealogists. She expected that her compilations would a

This work contains history of the militia with the major portion of the book devoted to genealogical data on the veterans and their families. Sources drawn from include: muster and pay rolls, state adjutant general papers, commission books, regular army r

Gives names and brief abstract of the item: marriages, deaths, legal notices, property sales, chancery court cases, intentions to move, local events in which persons are named.

This is a collection of church registers and pastoral records of births, marriages and deaths in Cumberland County of the eighteenth century. Existing church records include: Presbyterian; Lutheran; German Reformed; a few Episcopal; pastoral records of Re

Includes Wilmington Monthly Meeting, Marriage Bonds of New Castle, Emanuel Anglican, Welsh Tract Baptists, some later Methodist records & some records of Pencader Presbyterian Church, and St. Peters Roman Catholic Church.

Abstracts give names of all persons mentioned in the original will, including witnesses, names of tracts, acreage & situation or means by which a property came into the possession of the testator.

Many relationships are revealed in land records. Included in this compilation are landmarks and all references to persons and relationships.