Question 2- I use "Pennsylvania Genealogical Research" by George K Schwoeitzer. You might do a google search for the book or look on Amazon. Also, there is information on GenWeb, both on the PA page and the various county pages. Nancy Welty Ross Researching:Welty,Whaling,Allen,Buck, Lovelace,Doyle,Taylor,Greer,Ruble,Tyler,West,Rankin IL/TN/NC/VA/KY/MD/PA > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:50:06 -0500 > From: GeoSci64@comcast.net > To: PENNSYLVANIA@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PA] Help with PA research > > I have a friend who just began working in genealogy research in PA and I > offered to help. The questions asked or sources of confusion have me > stumped.... > > 1. An inability to locate Court Minutes. Those Minutes were the main > resource for southern research, of course, along with the census. > 2. An inability to find a research- how-to manual for PA research, the > court names are extremely unfamiliar----prothonotary, etc., but duties > of some of those offices I am finding online. > 3. An inability to locate online explanation of PA tax records, roughly > 1750-1850. For example, in Bedford County I find this among tax records: > "return of land", and I have never before seen that designation. Also, > what does it mean when the tax record reads "non-resident", yet the > individual is being taxed, as I recall in Bedford. > 4. What terminology does one use to obtain estates executors or > administrators annual returns done until estate probate is completed? > > Can anyone help out? > Thanks > Keith > -- > Find-A-Grave "County Keeper" for Schuylkill County, PA > > Keith A. McKain > McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 > > Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 > Email: GeoSci64@comcast.net > > ********* > The official website for the PENNSYLVANIA list is: http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pa/ > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PENNSYLVANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
I also use Dr. Scjweitzer's book, which lists his mailing address as 407 Ascot Court, Knoxville, TN 37923. The book cost me $12, and it's well worth it. ________________________________ From: Nancy Ross <nlwross@hotmail.com> To: pennsylvania@rootsweb.com Sent: Tue, January 19, 2010 2:31:54 PM Subject: Re: [PA] Help with PA research Question 2- I use "Pennsylvania Genealogical Research" by George K Schwoeitzer. You might do a google search for the book or look on Amazon. Also, there is information on GenWeb, both on the PA page and the various county pages. Nancy Welty Ross Researching:Welty,Whaling,Allen,Buck, Lovelace,Doyle,Taylor,Greer,Ruble,Tyler,West,Rankin IL/TN/NC/VA/KY/MD/PA > Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 09:50:06 -0500 > From: GeoSci64@comcast.net > To: PENNSYLVANIA@rootsweb.com > Subject: [PA] Help with PA research > > I have a friend who just began working in genealogy research in PA and I > offered to help. The questions asked or sources of confusion have me > stumped.... > > 1. An inability to locate Court Minutes. Those Minutes were the main > resource for southern research, of course, along with the census. > 2. An inability to find a research- how-to manual for PA research, the > court names are extremely unfamiliar----prothonotary, etc., but duties > of some of those offices I am finding online. > 3. An inability to locate online explanation of PA tax records, roughly > 1750-1850. For example, in Bedford County I find this among tax records: > "return of land", and I have never before seen that designation. Also, > what does it mean when the tax record reads "non-resident", yet the > individual is being taxed, as I recall in Bedford. > 4. What terminology does one use to obtain estates executors or > administrators annual returns done until estate probate is completed? > > Can anyone help out? > Thanks > Keith > -- > Find-A-Grave "County Keeper" for Schuylkill County, PA > > Keith A. McKain > McCain-McKane-O'Kane DNA Group 1 - # Mc17936 > > Website: http://home.comcast.net/~geosci64 > Email: GeoSci64@comcast.net > > ********* > The official website for the PENNSYLVANIA list is: http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry..com/pa/ > > ********* > Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA > ********* > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PENNSYLVANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ********* The official website for the PENNSYLVANIA list is: http://midatlantic.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pa/ ********* Visit the threaded archives of this list: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/PENNSYLVANIA ********* ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PENNSYLVANIA-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message