Have you hit a brick wall searching for your Pennsylvania Ancestors?
Are you having problems finding your German fore bears?
Have You Considered hiring a professional?
John Humphrey, a Pennsylvania native, has been working with Pennsylvania records for close to 40 years. He has authored the fifteen-volume Pennsylvania Births Series, two family histories, numerous articles and the critically acclaimed Understanding and Using Baptismal Records. He has worked in archives, libraries and record repositories throughout southeastern Pennsylvania, Germany, Washington DC, Salt Lake City, Wales, and London. During his career as a professional genealogist John organized and managed several national and local genealogical conferences, led the a research trip to Northern Germany, and managed the National Genealogical Society’s online and home study courses and appeared on national television and radio where he discussed various aspects of genealogy.
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What will you get ?
- You will have the help of someone who specializes in eighteenth-century research with a focus on Pennsylvania records and families. You will learn to appreciate the nuances of Pennsylvania research and learn how to get indirect evidence from a variety of Pennsylvania records.
- You will have the help of a genealogist who can read German handwriting and Gothic script.
- You will be hiring a family historian with a library that has birth and baptismal records found in 275 churches in southeastern Pennsylvania all dating before 1800.
- You can eliminate the long delays in getting Civil War Pension and Military Service Records by employing a researcher who lives within walking distance of the National Archives.
- You can hire a researcher who has easy access to many German-American newspapers available at the Library of Congress.
- You can gain access to genealogical resources published in Germany that can be found at the Library of Congress—publications such as Der Schlussel, the “Periodical Source Index” for German genealogical publications, Ortssippenbücher otherwise know as family registers for German towns and villages and other German publications.
- You will employ someone who has easy access to the DAR Library in Washington one of this country’s largest genealogical collections
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