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Where is Frankford Supply / Bristol Yards Located?
On the main search page on Ancestry there is a search box called "Keyword" if you use that to search for "Frankford Supply" you will find several references to newspaper want ads mentioning Frankford ...
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Understanding 1807-1812 Pennsylvania land records document?
First, Sarah Penrod is indicated as living in 1807 by the property description saying that adjacent to the west of the property being deeded is "the messuage, land of plantation whereon Mrs. Sarah ...
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Context of newspaper article about stolen horse?
The horse was likely stolen, as there had been an increase in horse theft during the Revolutionary War. Horses would be stolen in one locality and sold in another area (another county or state) to ...
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Spelling of Original Hungarian or Czechoslovakian surname?
The sounds [polɑvt͡ʃɛk] would be written Polavcsek in modern Hungarian; [pɑlovt͡ʃɛk] would be Palovcsek. However, surnames often preserve archaic spellings, and in any case nobody paid much attention ...
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How to interpret hand written will that refers to children and possibly in-laws?
... divided between my children viz Martha Entermarried with Henry
Rhinehart, My Son John, Elizabeth Entermarried with William
Stevenson, Henry B. Fought, Isaac S. Fought, William E. Fought, ...
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Finding Staquet/Degueldre/Casimir marriage record, likely in Pennsylvania?
This looked like a tricky search as I don't have worldwide access on Ancestry, just UK. But a search for Leonie Casimir/Degueldre brings up a marriage record for Leonie Casimir and Jean-Baptiste ...
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Identifying Pennsylvania ancestors born early 1900s?
First of all, everything @Hammy said - it's all good advice. Bear in mind that children don't have first-hand knowledge of their parents' precise birthplaces (I thought for years that my mother was ...
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Christian Orthodox Cemeteries in Philadelphia
Have you seen Brief History of St. John Chrysostom Albanian Orthodox Church & SS. Peter and Paul Church, Uniondale PA? Dedicated church cemeteries seem to have been the norm, but they also used ...
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Searching for Birth Records In Philadelphia, PA for births in 1914
Read the helpful overview "How to Find Pennsylvania Birth Records" (FamilySearch Wiki), especially Births_After_1905
The wiki page does need to be updated: as of 2017, birth records are available ...
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What does birthplace: "Cold Rain," Ireland imply?
As someone who lives a few miles from Coleraine, to me the town of Coleraine is where he was born. Simple as that.
The 1831 census of Coleraine parish has 7 Stewart families in the town a mix of ...
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Encyclopedia of American Quaker Genealogy volume 5 full text
To avoid posting a one-line answer, I am going to address the general case of how to access volumes of Hinshaw's Enclyclopedia. They are Limited - search only status at Hathi Trust due to copyright ...
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What are the differences between PA state file numbers and certificate numbers?
In Pennsylvania, certificate numbers and state file numbers are the same thing. Each certificate is assigned a number based on the order they're processed, so lower-numbered certificates reflect ...
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Finding avenue that appears to no longer exist?
Google --- "nevada avenue" mckeesport --- and one of the top matches is 1955-vintage map - Tube City Online. On the 1955 map, Nevada Avenue ran between Elm St and Weber St, not far from S Duquesne Ave ...
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What does birthplace: "Cold Rain," Ireland imply?
In a different context, one of our community members cautioned against premature connectivitis syndrome (PCS) when connecting up people, and I think the advice to "think INCHWORM (rather than ...
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Identifying Pennsylvania ancestors born early 1900s?
That's a tough one for sure- I don't see them in the 1940 census. I would start by looking more into the Benjamin L. Earnest that was born 14 Jan 1911 in Portage, Blair, PA, and died 8 January 1977 in ...
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Finding marriage location / records of parents in 1920s Blair Co, PA?
As Jan mentioned, it would be useful to know where you've already looked....
For Pennsylvania marriage records of this period, the first best place to look is FamilySearch's "Pennsylvania, County ...
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Did indentured servants in 1700s Pennsylvania receive different types of land warrants from what other immigrants to PA received?
You're probably aware already that Pennsylvania's land records are defined and
issued by the Commonwealth and not by the Federal Government. This is kind of obvious, since the Federal Government ...
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Finding details of an 1821 Berks County Pennsylvania Guardian appointment of two minors?
For Document 2, you say:
The second ... is from: Orphans Court Proceedings, 1752-1857; Index; Author: Pennsylvania. Orphans' Court (Berks County); Probate Place:
Berks, Pennsylvania
and
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Is there a logical explanation for a missing death certificate in 1962 in Pennsylvania?
The FamilySearch Research's Wiki's article United States Record Finder gives the following suggestions for finding dates and places of death (and burial, but you may have that already). They separate ...
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Finding details of an 1821 Berks County Pennsylvania Guardian appointment of two minors?
It looks like Ancestry has done a semi-indexed pass-through of FamilySearch's Pennsylvania Probate Records.
If you go to FamilySearch directly, their microfilm set includes not only the Orphan's ...
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Was it common for German women to use their maiden names in the early 19th century?
"...a German third great grandmother... appears with her husband in 1824 in Armstrong County, PA on a communicant list with her maiden name"
As mentioned in lejonet's comment,
"It is common to use ...
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Where can I find Pennsylvania Archives Series II?
Fold3 has the Pennsylvania Archives available for free and it's searchable.
https://www.fold3.com/browse/246/h9Y02Zdgu
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What does this handwriting say for location of final destination?
As best as I can tell, the state is Pa, or Pennsylvania and the city is Marianna. I think it is PA from the other entries, such as Allegany, two above it. According to Wikipedia, Marianna included ...
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Finding Staquet/Degueldre/Casimir marriage record, likely in Pennsylvania?
The 1900 Philadelphia census image for this family indicates that both Louis and Leonie were born in Belgium, that they were married in 1880, had been married 20 years, and had both emigrated in 1889 (...
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Christian Orthodox Cemeteries in Philadelphia
Anesti Zoto, founding member of St. John Chrysostom had his funeral there and was buried in Lawnview Cemetery in Rockledge, according to his obituary found in the July 24, 1993 issue of Philadelphia ...
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Pennsylvania Birth-records
When you are looking for historical place names, the best type of reference source is the gazetteer. This is a book containing information about places, usually with descriptions, often with origins ...
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Pennsylvania Birth-records
When you are looking for a person in a record set, you'll have the most success when you know three things:
the time the event took place
the place the event took place
the name (including variants) ...
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What does birthplace: "Cold Rain," Ireland imply?
In your original post you asked whether Coleraine might mean the civil parish or the RC parish. Presbyterians in Ireland didn’t use the parish system for their churches, so it wouldn’t be normal for ...
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Determining if ancestor was freemason in Pennsylvania
As commented by @sempaiscuba you could try contacting the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania to ask if they hold any records for your 2nd great grandfather.
At the bottom of its home page there is an email ...
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Looking for Adam Gould and Rachel Burkholder in 18th/19th century Pennsylvania?
My mother grew up on Brookhill farm in Plymouth Meeting Montgomery County Pa.
I understand the owners of the farm were Zimmerman's of Phila. Electric Co.
The woman who raised her and ran the farm was ...
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