Got Pennsylvania ancestors? How about tracing them using one of the largest bodies of Pennsylvania source material ever published? Search through more than 87,000 individuals and every article about births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths that has appeared in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine

This Family Archive contains the texts of twenty-seven volumes of Pennsylvania probate record abstracts originally published by Family Line Publications. Information in this Family Archive dates back to when the Pennsylvania General Assembly first required that wills and letters of administration be recorded. The abstracts contain family history information on more than 250,000 individuals and were compiled from nine Pennsylvania counties: Berks, Bucks, Chester, Cumberland, Delaware, Lancaster, Montgomery, Philadelphia, and York. These historical volumes would cost more than $600 when purchased separately as books, but you can purchase them all together on this CD-ROM for just a fraction of that price.

This CD contains all three volumes of Pennsylvania German Church Records originally published by Genealogical Publishing Company. The volumes include all the church records ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society. The records, which include births, baptisms, marriages, and burials, identify people and their relationships to one another--not only parents and children, husbands and wives, but witnesses and sponsors as well. The records mention approximately 91,000 individuals and are indispensable to anyone interested in Pennsylvania-German origins. For convenience and easy searching, an alphabetical name index of all three volumes is included on the CD.

Here you'll find the indexed images of the pages of fourteen comprehensive books of Pennsylvania county and family histories. Many of these volumes were published by their author and printed in very small quantities for limited distribution. They have, therefore, previously been difficult to locate and research. The information is also valuable because statewide registration of events such as births and deaths was not required in Pennsylvania prior to 1906. These detailed volumes contain information on more than 275,000 Pennsylvania residents and their families.

In this comprehensive collection of records, you'll find information on the births and/or baptisms of approximately 476,000 individuals who either resided in or were born in Southeastern Pennsylvania before 1800. These records, found in 213 church, meeting, and pastoral records, were originally published in a thirteen-volume set entitled Pennsylvania Births.

This Family Archive contains information on approximately 12,690 individuals mentioned in land record abstracts for Bucks and Lancaster Counties, Pennsylvania. While the land records are from Pennsylvania, often the individuals listed resided in neighboring Mid-Atlantic States.

This Family Archive contains images of the pages of Volumes 1 through 39 of The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine plus four supplements. Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, the Magazine is distributed semi-annually to its members. This scholarly journal contains book reviews, methodological case studies, discussions of major resources, family histories and genealogies, and research guides.

Discover this significant collection of records comprehensive in their coverage of colonial Pennsylvania. Approximately 190,000 individuals are referenced within the newspaper abstracts, naturalization records, land records, court records, and family histories compiled in this Family Archive.

Church records such as those included here are among the best sources for information on births, marriages, and deaths for the period of time before widespread civil registration of vital statistics. This Family Archive contains information on approximately 180,000 individuals mentioned in abstracts of baptisms, births, marriages, and deaths from the registers of more than fifty local Pennsylvania churches. The information was extracted from microfilm records of transcriptions of the original records.

f traveling beyond Interstates and main highways is your idea of the kopen roadm then these are the atlases for you. Delorme Atlases and Gazetteers are topographic maps of an entire state, formatted in a convenient book. The road information runs the entire spectrum, from national interstates, to dirt roads and trails. Ideal for finding those out-of-the-way campsites or remote lakes and streams. Each Atlas has a complete gazetteer for quick and thorough reference. Also included: information about wildlife, scenic drives, parks, museums, historic sites, campgrounds, fishing, and now GPS grids! When you head off the main road, take a Delorme Atlas and Gazetteer with you.

With information on more than 113,000 immigrants from nearly 100 countries, this Family Archive will be a great resource for researchers whose family settled in Pennsylvania.

Passenger lists are important primary sources of arrival data for the vast majority of immigrants to the United States in the nineteenth century. The information collected here was taken from the National Archives Microfilm Series M425, Passenger Lists of Vessels Arriving at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1800-1882. This microfilm series consists of difficult to locate baggage lists from 1800 through 1819 as well as original passenger lists from 1820 through 1882. While the entire series spans 108 rolls, this Family Archive covers rolls 1 through 71. Indexed and searchable by key word, it includes approximately 180,000 individuals who arrived in Philadelphia between January 1, 1800 and December 23, 1850.