PA chapter Third Tuesday Zoom PROgram

The Pennsylvania Chapter’s series of Third Tuesday Zoom programs continues. Presented at 7:00 PM ET, they are free and open to all. Join us for our November program:

Lost in Pennsylvania -
Try the Published Pennsylvania Archives
Tuesday, November 18, 2025

The Pennsylvania Archives is a set of 138 published volumes in ten series that can be overwhelming to the genealogist who first sees them. However, searching in these volumes can help you locate information about what an ancestor was doing at a given time, and where s/he was doing it. If an ancestor surfaces in Western Pennsylvania or Ohio, information in these volumes may help you to learn where s/he was before that time. Most information in the published Pennsylvania Archives covers from the colonial period through about 1850. Along with state documents, reports and papers, this series included things like land records, church records, and military records. This talk will discuss how to access the Pennsylvania Archives and give you a plan of attack to work through them to get the most information soonest, illustrated with examples of the kind of information you might find.

Christine Crawford-Oppenheimer, MLS, has a Master’s Degree in library science and a graduate certificate in archives. She started doing genealogical research in 1979, specializing in Pennsylvania research. She belongs to several genealogical societies. Her training as a librarian helps in developing talks about research for genealogists, and articles she has written have appeared in the National Genealogical Society Quarterly, and the Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, among others.

Register here to join us for this program. If you have a question that you want to ask, feel free to email us in advance at info@pennpalam.org or pennsylvaniapalatines@gmail.com.