Pennsylvania Vital Records from the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine and the Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography. in Three Volumes. Volu

This work contains reprints of virtually every article on births baptisms marriages and deaths that ever appeared in the two most important Pennsylvania periodicals The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. As with similar compilations this work was produced with the object of bringing all such material within reach of the genealogist for complete sets of these periodicals are almost impossible to find these days and in the case of The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine--which lacks a comprehensive index--difficult to use. Our three volumes are of course completely indexed--a necessity in a work that contains references to over 100000 persons! The vital records that appear here in a total of some 150 articles derive from a mixture of church registers court records records of local officials and justices ministers' records newspapers and gravestone inscriptions. They cut evenly across civil and ecclesiastical lines and represent a cross-section of the population of early Pennsylvania providing in the aggregate one of the largest bodies of published source material ever seen. For the period prior to 1820 in fact they offer the researcher perhaps his best chance of making ancestral connections in Pennsylvania. Painstakingly culled from out-of-the-way sources and neatly consolidated in this handy three-volume work these heretofore scattered records of baptisms marriages and deaths are now accessible to everyone.