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