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Goal 4: Learn about Pennsylvania church and cemetery records.
Choices
ALearn about Pennsylvania church records.
Summary
- Find Pennsylvania church information by denomination.
- Search Pennsylvania church records at the county level.
- Get an overview of Pennsylvania church records in these articles.
FS—Pennsylvania Church Records
AC—Pennsylvania Church Records - Explore additional links for Pennsylvania church records on the
LDSGenealogy site. - Explore church record resources on the Ancestor Hunt site.
Exercises
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for church records. Then use the learnings for searches for a U.S. ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
Record Search Practice |
John Carver was married in the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania. Use the "AC: Pennsylvania US Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania Church Records, 1759-1970" QUIKLink below to answer these questions:
- Who did John Carver marry?
- When were they married?
- Where were they married?
- Click the QUIKLink mentioned above.
- In the search screen, enter "John" as the first name and "Carver" as the last name.
- In the search results screen, click View Record for John Carver.
- In Suggested Records at the right of the page, select Pennsylvania US Compiled Marriage Records to find the marriage location.
- John married Christina Sell.
- They were married on 24 Nov 1796.
- Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. (Contributed by Brent Bunker )
QUIKLinks
BExplore Pennsylvania cemetery records.
Summary
- Find cemetery records for Pennsylvania ancestors from a number of sources.
- Explore Pennsylvania cemetery records in this article.
FS—Pennsylvania Cemetery Records - Browse the
Interment.net site for Pennsylvania cemetery records. - Search for Pennsylvania cemetery records online.
- Explore Pennsylvania cemetery records on the AccessGenealogy site.
- Explore additional links for Pennsylvania cemetery records on the LDSGenealogy site.
- Explore the Tombstone Transcription Project on the U.S. GenWeb site.
- Search the Find A Grave site for cemetery records.
- Search the BillionGraves site for cemetery records.
- See additional cemetery resources on the Pennsylvania Linkpendium site.
- * Good: Using the articles and videos in this Choice, write down key learnings for cemetery records. Then use the learnings for searches for a U.S. ancestor.
- * Proficient: Same as above, for two or more ancestors.
QUIKLinks
Pennsylvania Counties
Name = FamilySearch; A = Ancestry; L = Linkpendium; G = Genealogy Inc; U = USGenWeb; T = GenealogyTrails; F = Facebook
QUIKLinks: County Records