Shorts

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Tricks of the Trade: Apprenticeships in the Traditional Arts,” an exhibition ex­ploring the relationships between master artists and artisans and their apprentices will be shown at the Manchester Craftsmen’s Guild, Pittsburgh, from Wednesday, January 10, through Friday, February 23, 1996. “Tricks of the Trade” documents more than one hundred part­nerships in a...
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Shorts

Posted by on Nov 26, 2013 in | Comments Off on Shorts “Working Under Wires,” examining the work – often unseen or unnoticed by the public – that ensured safe, reliable, and economical public transportation, will remain on exhibit at the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum in Washington through December 1997. The exhibition focuses on the men and women employed by trolley companies as operators, mechanics, track crews, overhead wire and signal...
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Genealogy Notebook

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Genealogy Notebook It’s difficult to get around the fact that genealogy is a highly personal journey one that can be shared but not duplicated by kindred souls. The people of Pennsylvania stem from a mosaic of ethnic backgrounds and so there is no such thing as a “typical” Commonwealth pedigree. Early history is populated by English Quakers (the Religious Society of Friends), mainstream and...
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Septennial Census

Posted by on Nov 25, 2013 in | Comments Off on Septennial Census Pennsylvania’s consti­tution has nothing like the “actual Enumeration” clause of the U.S. Constitution, which is the basis for the once-per­-decade federal censuses that have become the sin­gle most important record group for genealogists. While the Commonwealth has never taken such an all-inclusive headcount, it did enumerate taxpayers in listings called the Septennial Census...
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Ancestry of the Pennsylvania Germans

Posted by on Nov 24, 2013 in | Comments Off on Ancestry of the Pennsylvania Germans The ancestry of the Pennsylvania Germans has been an extraordinarily rich genealogical mine from which researchers have extracted informa­tion since at least the time of Israel Daniel Rupp (1803-1878), a self-taught historian who collated primary source records along with family histories in the 1840s. Since the mid-nineteenth century, a princi­pal genealogical challenge of these families has...
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