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WPGS Quarterly - Table of Contents

Vol. 1  | Vol. 2  | Vol. 3  | Vol. 4  | Vol. 5  | Vol. 6  | Vol. 7  | Vol. 8  | Vol. 9  | Vol. 10  | Vol. 11 | Vol. 12  
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Volume 11 - No. 1 (August 1984)

Mercer County Will Book 1 Abstracts Loretta DeSantis, Jim Glaser, Sally Dufford 1
Marriage and Family Information from Allegheny County Dockets Entitled Feme Sole Traders/Separate Earnings Act Henry Hively 12
Western Pennsylvania Indians   14
Goshen Baptist Church Records 1773-1790 for Washington and Greene Counties Jean S. Morris 15
Western Pennsylvania Marriages from Columbiana County Ohio Newspapers Carol Wilisey Bell 17
Lawrence County 1878 Voters List Margaret E. Sica 19
Pioneer Cemetery, Franklin, Venango County Leslie Dunn 20
Out of State or Former Residences of People Naturalized in Allegheny County 1720-1840 Jean S. Morris 27
Western Pennsylvania Indians   29
Marriages and Deaths from Western Pennsylvania Newspapers (cont.) Agnes Tomichek 30
The Great Fire! Pittsburgh 1845 Henry Hively & Jean S. Morris 35
Western Pennsylvania Surnames Abstracted from the Pittsburgh Gazette Clara E. Duer 52
St. John's Lutheran Church, McCandless Township, Allegheny County Virginia Guttendorf 58
Western Pennsylvania Indians   66
Book Reviews   67
Brookstown Cemetery, Hope Twp., Forest County James H. Sterrett 75
An Old Wagoner of Fayette County Samuel Paxton Adelaide P. Doran 76
Genealogical Queries Dorothy Braden 77

Copyright 1984 by The Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

  

Volume 11 - No. 2 (November 1984)

Beulah Presbyterian Church, Wilkins Twp., Allegheny County, History; 1814 Library Society; 1811 Pledges; Session minute Book 1827-1830; Baptisms, Marriages, Admissions, Dismissions, and Deaths April 1819-April 1831 Jean S. Morris, Paul M. Ruff, Helen Wilson 81
Beulah Presbyterian Church Cemetery Jean S. Morris 88
Westmoreland County, Items from the Temperance Banner Newspaper 2 July 1845 to 15 Dec 1845 Thomas J. Metzgar 104
Western Pennsylvania Indians, Tanacharison & Killbuck   116
List of Poor Children Schooled by the City from the 1818 Tax List City of Pittsburgh Helen Wilson 117
German Catholic Orphans Society, Allegheny County Taken from the 1880 Census, Reserve Twp Nell Y. Herchenroether 118
Poem to Pennsylvania Rudyard Kipling 118
1877 Sale of Green Street Baptist Church, Third Ward, Allegheny City, Allegheny County Henry Hively 119
The Flag of the First Pennsylvania Regiment   119
Heydon Family Irish Origins from Bedford County Deed  Jean Morris 120
Allegheny County Rivers and Streams - Girtys Run   120
Early Western Pennsylvania Marriages from Various Local Newspapers 1793-1878 Joyce Thompson, Beth Liberman 121
Lawrence County 1883 Justices and Constables Margaret E. Sica 129
Greene County, Franklin Twp., Dec 1799 Tax List Jean Morris 130
Letter from Allegheny County to Mercer County Illinois in 1860, the Miller Family Becky Whedon 134
Abstracts of Mercer County Will Book One concluded Loretta DeSantis, Jim Glasser, Sally Dufford 135
Book Reviews   144
Kistler Family Cemetery, Washington Twp., Westmoreland County, PA Thomas J. Metzgar 154
Pittsburgh Connection in Knox County, Tennessee Will Helen Stoller 154
Lawful Money of Pennsylvania Henry S. Young 155
Souvenir Card, Lucinda School, Clarion County Mary M. Platt 157
Queries Dorothy B. Braden 157
Letter from the Editor   159

Copyright 1984 by The Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

  

Volume 11 - No. 3 (February 1985)

The Founding Families of Loretto: The Early Catholics of Western Pennsylvania Edmund J. Adams 161
Beaver County Newspaper Items Virginia Patton 195
1785-1789 Tax Lists Dickinson Township, Washington Now Allegheny County Raymond M. Bell 196
Washington County News Item   198
William Colvins Account Book 1766-1768 Fayette County Jean S. Morris 199
Washington County News Item   199
Bible Records of David McCalla of Pittsburgh Ruth Ehrgott 200
Lawrence County 1883 Roll of Honor Margaret E. Sica 200
Beaver County Marriages   201
News Items from the Blairsville Appalachian, Indiana County, PA Thomas J. Metzgar 202
Andrew Murphy Obituary, Allegheny County Dorothy B. Braden 206
1794 Land Warrants in Fayette and Bedford Counties Jean S. Morris 207
Four Clearfield County Cemeteries - Bridgens Cemetery, Ganoe Cemetery, Litz Cemetery & Hoyt Cemetery S. R. Bithell, Carrie Adamson, James Sterrett 210
1807 Fayette County Estate Settlement   215
Greene County Pension Applications Jean S. Morris 216
Armstrong County Scrapbook 1876-1886 Ann Bovard Pailthorp 219
Book Reviews   227
Genealogical Queries Dorothy B. Braden 236
Letter from the Editor   239

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Volume 11 - No. 4 (May 1985)

Western Pennsylvanians in Hardin County, Ohio James Sterrett 241
A Letter From a Librarian   244
Stephen Shepard: His Pittsburgh Descendants Harold H. Shepard 245
We Keep Forgetting: A Poem   245
Greene County Marriages, 1811-1818 Jean S. Morris 246
Shawville School Souvenir Card, 1909-1910, Goshen Township, Clearfield County Aryl Ann Bashline 247
1898 Souvenir From the Mennonite Sunday School, Rockton Mennonite Church,
Union Township, Clearfield County
Aryl Ann Bashline 247
Armstrong County Scrapbook, 1876-1886 continuing Jean S. Morris 249
Pennsylvania Newspaper Project Report   261
Book Reviews Editor 264
Accessions to the Library, 1984-1985 Fiscal Year Editor 270
Pennsylvania Civil War Flag Program   275
Genealogical Queries Dorothy Braden 276

Copyright 1985 by The Western Pennsylvania Genealogical Society