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Marriages and Death Notices from the Harrisburg Chronicle, 1820-1834
Newspapers can be an invaluable source of historical information to put our ancestors’ lives in context. But they can also provide direct content, such as BDM—birth, death, and marriage—dates, about our ancestors, too. I have found casual, social news about family, marriage announcements, death announcements, and obituaries in newspapers where they lived during the 19th century.
I have compiled marriage and death notices for the central Pennsylvania area from the Harrisburg Chronicle newspaper from March 1820 through March 1834 into a book that is available as both a print book and and ebook. It’s a useful resource for the family genealogist with ancestors who lived in Dauphin or the surrounding counties in the very early 1800s. It includes an every name index in the print version.
ISBN# 978-1-257-93075-3
Pages: 236
Binding: Perfect-bound Paperback
Interior Ink: Black & white
Dimensions (inches): 6.0 wide × 9.0 tall
ISBN-13: 9781312978898
Marriage and Death Notices from Harrisburg, PA Newspapers, 1835-1845
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In 1830, there were eleven newspapers in print in Harrisburg. This book contains marriage and death notices, including some obituaries, as reported in four of those Harrisburg area newspapers from 1835 through 1845. Issues used as source material in compiling this volume include: the Democratic State Journal, the Keystone, the State Capital Gazette, and the Democratic Union. Other newspapers from within Pennsylvania and other states were often quoted, as newspapers passed information from one area to another. More than marriage and death notices. Index.
ISBN: 1558564020
Pages: 322 pages
Binding: Softbound
Dimensions: 8.5″ X 11″
An Index to Lancaster County Pennsylvania Online Deeds, Books A-D, 1729-1760
Check out the online deed index available through the Lancaster County Recorder of Deeds. Read about it here.
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Lancaster County—known as America’s Garden Spot or Pennsylvania Dutch Country—was one of the earliest settled areas of Pennsylvania. Founded officially in 1729, parts of it were settled as early as 1710. It’s original boundaries included the present-day counties of Berks, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lebanon, Northumberland, and York. The original settlers included Germans, Scotch-Irish, French traders, as well as the English.
Land was wealth to our ancestors. As a record of the transfer of land, a deed can be genealogical goldmine to the family historian. Not only does a deed put a person in a specific place at a specific time, but it can inform us of relationships between buyer, seller, and sometimes previous even owners; name spouses, occupations, and neighbors; and provide clues as to the affluence—or lack thereof—of those involved.
Digital images of Lancaster County deeds from 1729 through 1986 are available online through the county’s Recorder of Deeds. However, only those from 1981 onwards are searchable. This book provides a full-name index to buyer (grantor) and seller (grantee) for deed books A through D, covering the period from 1729 through 1760. Each listing includes the names of grantor and grantee, the book, the date the deed was written, the date it was recorded, and both page number and image number for easy access to the correct online file.
An Index to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania Online Deeds, Books E-H, 1755-1769
Check out the online deed index available through the Lancaster County Recorder of Deeds. Read about it here.
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Works in Progress
A Hacker/Hocker Family
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This book covers the descendants of Christoph and Anna Margaretha (Jock) Hacker of Rußheim, Baden-Durlach, Germany and Cocalico Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania through their four children: Anna Christina (Hacker) Lang, Johan Adam Hacker, Anna Margaretha (Hacker) Haushalter, all of Lancaster County and Johan George Hacker of Erdenheim, Whitemarsh Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania.
In order to finally bring this book to publication, I decided to limit its scope to the first four generations of the descendants of Christoph and Anna Margaretha (Jock) Hacker. Families that I have compiled information on, but cannot place into the family tree will be included in the Appendices.
The Huber-Hoover Families of Lancaster County
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This is a compilation of Huber/Hoober/Hoover data from Lancaster County in the 18th and early 19th centuries that I’ve collected from various sources, including Hoover deed extractions from Lancaster County deed books from 1729 through 1800. (This is a work in progress.)