I'm also interested in Egles Notes. Are they in most libraries in major cities?? Researching Brandt, Sheumaker, Anderson, Kagy, Westenbarger, Mohler, Davey, Harris, Flood, Reed, West, Wharton, families.

I have seen them at various libraries, they are not rare. They are maybe half dozen books. Someone also published an index. I see on Genealogical Publishing Co. website they have them for $29.99 which is worth the investment if you doing much PA research. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [PADAUPHI] Egles Notes > I'm also interested in Egles Notes. Are they in most libraries in major > cities?? > > > Researching Brandt, Sheumaker, Anderson, Kagy, Westenbarger, Mohler, Davey, > Harris, Flood, Reed, West, Wharton, families. > > > ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== > Post only genealogy related topics > >

Egle's complete "Notes and Queries," originally written between 1879 and 1900, were republished in 1970 in thirteen volumes. Lately the entire work is available on CD-Rom for a tenth of what the actual books cost. You can find the CD-ROM at FamilyTreeMaker.com and probably a few other genealogy sites on the web. However I bought a copy on eBay for less than ten dollars. In fact I just checked and there is one up for auction right now. "Notes and Queries" is the collected newspaper columns of Dr. William Henry Egle, who was the Pennsylvania state historian, among many other things. His work is heavily centered around south central Pennsylvania data, people, genealogy, history, etc, but does occasionally range afield into many other counties around the state. He pays a lot of attention to the Pennsylvania Germans, which is nice because many of the collected county histories of his time ignored them in favor of the English/Scots Irish. He also gives limited space to stories and notes about African Americans, which almost none of the other histories from this time period do. Egle's work, it should be noted, has errors. It was a "work in progress," in the form of a regular history column. If he wrote a column with errors, he would simply make corrections in a later column. Also, many of the stories were submitted by fellow historians, usually identified only by initials. The CD-ROM has a complete name index, which is handy, but I would like to see a comprehensive subject index, too. All in all, it is a very useful work, fun to read and browse, and full of thousands of stories that you just don't find in the typical county history. George F. Nagle Editor, Afrolumens Project http://www.afrolumens.org/ -----Original Message----- From: Ed Waggoner [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:14 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [PADAUPHI] Egles Notes I have seen them at various libraries, they are not rare. They are maybe half dozen books. Someone also published an index. I see on Genealogical Publishing Co. website they have them for $29.99 which is worth the investment if you doing much PA research. ----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 8:46 AM Subject: Re: [PADAUPHI] Egles Notes > I'm also interested in Egles Notes. Are they in most libraries in major > cities?? > > > Researching Brandt, Sheumaker, Anderson, Kagy, Westenbarger, Mohler, Davey, > Harris, Flood, Reed, West, Wharton, families. > > > ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== > Post only genealogy related topics > > ==== PADAUPHI Mailing List ==== To unsubscribe first check and see if you are getting list or digest mode then e-mail [email protected] or [email protected] with unsubscribe in message.