Pennsylvania Vital Records, 1700s-1800s

Description

Originally published in three volumes by the Genealogical Publishing Company, this is a collection of every article about births, baptisms, marriages, and deaths that ever appeared in The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography and the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. Referring to more than 87,000 individuals, Pennsylvania Vital Records is one of the largest bodies of Pennsylvania source materials ever published. The records date from 1701 to 1882 and cover all regions of Pennsylvania. For the period prior to 1820, they offer researchers one of the best opportunities for making ancestral connections in Pennsylvania. The records in this collection were extracted from church registers, court records, records of local officials, ministers’ records, newspapers, and gravestone inscriptions. For your convenience, a name index spans all three volumes.