From the PHMC Chair

Posted by on Aug 22, 2017 in | 0 comments “There’s a new term in today’s newspaper,” my husband said. “The term is ‘fabricated lies.’” My husband, an especially avid news consumer, is our inhouse pundit. He regularly reports out on such things. The “fabricated lies” to which he is referring is only the latest in a string of confusing terms that have become so common we hardly notice them. False news. Fake science. It’s become...
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A Treasure Trove of Historical Records: The Pennsylvania State Archives

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on A Treasure Trove of Historical Records: The Pennsylvania State Archives The challenges of keeping up with life’s paperwork are overwhelming. There are so many documents: receipts, tax forms, deeds, wills, insurance policies and claims, pay stubs, check registers, warranties…a neverending stream of information that has to be handled. And for each slip of paper, there’s a set of questions that must be answered. What to keep? How to file? Where to...
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Genealogy Records at Ephrata Cloister

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Genealogy Records at Ephrata Cloister The types of source documents that help family historians most often depend upon such factors as ethnicity, ge­ography, and time period. Even within an ethnic group, there can be great variety. Pennsylvania Germans constitute one such group. The large immigration to Pennsylvania of German­-speaking people in the late seventeenth century and throughout the eighteenth century was composed...
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