Philadelphia Lookups
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for all of the Jones in Philadelphia. We are volunteers, not
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| Reference |
Lookup Volunteer |
| The American Advertising Directory for Manufacturers
and Dealers in American Goods for the year of 1832.
(Listings include names of merchants, their location and
what they sell) |
Bill Regli |
| Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia
1800-1819. |
Carolyn G. Lynn |
| Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever
in Philadelphia in 1793 by J. H. Powell. |
Carolyn G. Lynn |
| Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1727-1808, vols. I,
II, & III, by R. B. Strassburger & W. J. Hinke, Camden, ME:
Picton Press, 1992. (Passenger lists of Germans arriving
aboard ships in the port of Phila., PA. Mostly males 16 and
over who signed the Oath of Allegiance, though a few lists
contain women and children.) |
Lani MacAniff |
| St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Manayunk,
Philadelphia, PA 100th Anniversary book. From 1831 to
1931. Lots of history of Manayunk etc. |
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| Social Register of Philadelphia, 1960. |
Vince Summers |
| The Stories Behind Philadelphia Street Names |
Larry |
| 100 old Philadelphia Newspapers (Inquirers,
Bulletins, Daily News) dating back to about 1900 (Click
here to see a partial list of Karen's newspaper
collection). |
Karen |
| Genealogy Lookup Forum |
various |
| Random Acts of Genealogical Kindness |
various |
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