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Keeping the Embers Aglow: 100 Years of the Ephrata Church of the Brethren - Charles M. Bieber

Keeping the Embers Aglow: 100 Years of the Ephrata Church of the Brethren

This story of the first 100 years of the Ephrata Church of the Brethren, Lancaster Co., Pa., is a continuing story of changing patterns some shadows, some embers. It is...

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Hempstone Heritage I: In Accordance With Their Wills; "All the Heckled Hemp She Can Spin" - Les Stark

Hempstone Heritage I: In Accordance With Their Wills; "All the Heckled Hemp She Can Spin"

Did you know that the original Hempfield Township in Lancaster Co., Pa., was named for the vast amounts of hemp raised there? Did you know that hemp was grown on...

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First Families of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Vol. 1 - John Pitts Launey

First Families of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Vol. 1

Introduction shares who settled where and when as well as information on the early churches and meeting-places. Families covered include: Allen, Baldwin, Bonsall, Green, Hibberd, Marshall, Mendenhall, Newlin, Palmer, Pyle,...

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History of Ice Harvesting Days in the Late 18 and Early 19 Hundreds - J. Samuel King

History of Ice Harvesting Days in the Late 18 and Early 19 Hundreds

The story of ice history when our ancestors harvested ice and hauled it from the ponds and rivers using sleighs and wagons drawn by horses and mules, is based on...

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Celebrating 300 Years; Bensalem Presbyterian Church 1705-2005 - compiled by Irene Tomchik

Celebrating 300 Years: Bensalem Presbyterian Church, 1705-2005

This is the oldest established church in Bucks Co., Pa., aside from the Quaker Meeting House, and it is reputed to be the oldest church in Pa. that still worships...

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Agricultural and Federal Census Schedules, 1850-1880: East Cocalico Township, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania - compiled by James E. Frey

Agricultural and Federal Census Schedules, 1850-1880: East Cocalico Twp., Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania

Detailed statistics on life between 1850 and 1880 cover how many "milch" cows, working oxen, bushels of wheat and Indian corn, pounds of tobacco, bales of ginned cotton, value of...

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The Growth of a Congregation, A History of the Hereford Mennonite Church, Bally, Pennsylvania - Douglas L. Good

The Growth of a Congregation, A History of the Hereford Mennonite Church, Bally, Pennsylvania

An illustrated history of the Hereford congregation which began about 1725 in Goshenhoppen, now called Bally. Early families included Bauer, Bechtel, Beidler, Buckwalter, Eshbach, Gehman, Kreibel, Latshaw, Moll, Schultz, and...

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Landisville Mennonite Cemetery: Gravestones, Transcriptions, and Parentages

Landisville Mennonite Cemetery: Gravestones, Transcriptions, and Parentages

Transcriptions of the 1,400+ gravestones in the Landisville Mennonite Cemetery (Lancaster Co., Pa.) are recorded in this volume. The earliest gravestones date back to persons born in the 1700s. Names...

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Lancaster Landmarks Coloring Book - Gerry Kershner

Lancaster Landmarks Coloring Book

Here children can learn while they color because the book features Lancaster Co., Pa., sites like: Bitzer Mill Bridge, Boehm Chapel, Central Market, Christiana Freight Station, Ephrata Cloister, Fulton Birthplace,...

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Trinity Lutheran Church of Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, Part II (Baptisms, 1790-1812) - translated by Rev. J. W. Early

Trinity Lutheran Church of Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, Part II (Baptisms, 1790-1812)

An estimated 1,800 baptisms (sponsors included). Names such as Eisenbeiss, Hahn, Kissinger, Miller, Reitmeyer, Schumacher, and more. (123pp. index. Closson Press, 1991.)

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Trinity Lutheran Church of Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, Part I (Baptisms, 1751-1790) - translated by Rev. J. W. Early

Trinity Lutheran Church of Reading, Berks Co., Pennsylvania, Part I (Baptisms, 1751-1790)

Includes over 2,000 baptisms (plus sponsors) with names: Beyer, Englehardt, Fuchs, Hahn, Koch, Nagel, Schneider, Winter. (122pp. index. Closson Press, 1990.)

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Index to "Annals of the Conestoga Valley" - compiled by J. Lemar and Lois Ann Mast

Index to "Annals of the Conestoga Valley"

The index to the 689-page Annals of the Conestoga Valley by C. Z. Mast and R. E. Simpson includes every name and many subjects in this local history of the...

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Advertisements and Notices of Interest From Norristown, Pennsylvania, Newspapers, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania: Vol. V, 1839-1843 - compiled by Judith A. H. Meier

Advertisements and Notices of Interest From Norristown, Pennsylvania, Newspapers, Montgomery Co., Pennsylvania: Vol. V, 1839-1843

Abstracts of newspaper notices of marriages and deaths, sales of houses, farms, mills, taverns, and announcements of meetings can be a great help to anyone with ancestors in the Norristown,...

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A Guide of Pennsylvania Towns - N. Clair Clawser

A Guide of Pennsylvania Towns

As a pioneer preservationist of cast iron signs, the author has covered over 550 towns in Pennsylvania and included over 50 years of research in this book. These cast iron...

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Baptismal and Marriage Records, Rev. John Waldschmidt - translated by Luther R. Kelker

Baptismal and Marriage Records, Rev. John Waldschmidt

Subtitled "Cocalico, Moden Krick, Weiseichen Land and Seltenreich, Gemeinde, Lancaster Co., Pennsylvania, 1752-1786" Reverend Waldschmidt's entries, which pertain to the congregations of Cocalico (Swamp), Weiseichenland (formerly Sebastian Reicher's Church), Modecreek,...

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Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1681-1730, Vol. 1 - Carol Bryant

Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1681-1730, Vol. 1

Covers the area of old Chester Co. which now includes Lancaster Co. (formed in 1729) and Delaware Co. (formed in 1789). These are abstracts of deeds, mortgages, bond leases/releases, and...

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Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1758-1765, Vol. 5 - Carol Bryant

Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1758-1765, Vol. 5

One of the original three counties of Pennsylvania from which Lancaster (1729) and Delaware (1789) Counties were formed. Thus, these volumes cover a three-county area. Included are deeds, mortgages, bonds,...

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Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1729-1745, Vol. 2 - Carol Bryant

Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1729-1745, Vol. 2

Covers the area of old Chester Co. which now includes Lancaster Co. (formed in 1729) and Delaware Co. (formed in 1789). These are abstracts of deeds, mortgages, bond leases/releases, and...

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Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1745-1753, Vol. 3 - Carol Bryant

Abstracts of Chester Co., Pennsylvania, Land Records, 1745-1753, Vol. 3

Covers the area of old Chester Co. which now includes Lancaster Co. (formed in 1729) and Delaware Co. (formed in 1789). These are abstracts of deeds, mortgages, bond leases/releases, and...

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Reading Furnace: 1736 - Estelle Cremers

Reading Furnace: 1736

Beautifully illustrated with full-color and black-white photos, this book gives the history of the old Reading Furnace built in 1736 in Chester Co., Pa. (194pp. color illus. Reading Furnace Press,...

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