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Below is a list of the reference materials I have.  If you need assistance with any of these email me with your request and please be as specific as possible.  Some are not indexed and it may be difficult to find the information you are looking for.

• A Centennial History of Tower City and Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania (1868 - 1968)

• A Dictionary of English Surnames by P.H. Reaney

• A Directory of the Eleventh Census of the Population of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania From the Census of 1890 reprinted by the Schuylkill County Historical Society

• A Genealogist's Guide to Burials in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Volume II compiled by Joseph A. Meiser, Jr. (limited sections)

• A Genealogy of the Kreiser Family compiled by Clifford L. Kreiser and Sylvia A. (Schultz) Goho, indexed by William Deimler 1999

• A History of the United Zion Church 1853-1980

• A Look at the Past of the Pine Grove Area compiled by Pearl Rhein Kreichbaum

• Abstracts of Death Notices Published in "The Press Herald" Newspaper of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania compiled by Cheryl Fidler Schneck

• Abstracts of Marriage Notices Published in "The Press Herald" Newspaper of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania compiled by Cheryl Fidler Schneck

• Abstracts of Miscellaneous Notices Published in "The Press Herald" Newspaper of Pine Grove, Pennsylvania compiled by Cheryl Fidler Schneck

• An Ohio Reader 1750 to the Civil War edited by Thomas H. Smith

• An Ohio Reader Reconstruction to the Present edited by Thomas H. Smith

• Atlas of Schuylkill County Pennsylvania 1875 by F.W. Beers, C.E. (reprinted by the Schuylkill County Historical Society)

• Baptismal Records and Burial Records, Salem (Hetzel) Church Washington Twp., Schuylkill Co., Penna., Book Number 2

• Berks County Church Records of the 18th Century, Volume 3 by Wright

• Bi-Centennial History Lykens - Williams Valley  (Dauphin & Schuylkill Co., PA)

• Biographical Notes 1841 - 1916 of Pine Grove, PA. compiled by Capt. J.W. Barr

• Birth Records: United States/Europe 900 - 1880 (FTM CD 17)

• Blaenavon through the years in Photographs by Malcolm Thomas and John Lewis (Monmouthshire, Wales)

• Blue Book of Schuylkill County by Elliott

• Blue Eyed Six by W.H. Anspach

• British Isles Vital Records Index - England, Ireland, Scotland, and Wales by Family Search (LDS)

• Cemetery Map of Lebanon County by the Lebanon County Historical Society (shows locations of all cemeteries in Lebanon County)

• Charles Baber Cemetery at Pottsville Schuylkill County Pennsylvania collected and compiled by Phillip A. Rice "Schuylkill Roots" Researchers

• Chicago and Cook County Sources, a Genealogical and Historical Guide by Loretto Dennis Szucs

• Children's Employment Commission 1842 Report by Robert Hugh Franks, Esq., on the employment of children and young persons in the collieries and the ironworks of South Wales, the district of Merthyr Tydvil, the collieries of Monmouthshire, Glamorganshire and Pembrokeshire and on the state, condition and treatment of such children and young persons.  Edited by Ian Winstanley, published by Picks Publishing

• Circuit and Circuit Riders, Volume I by Schuylkill Roots Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock

• Circuit and Circuit Riders, Volume II by Schuylkill Roots Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock

• Collected Cemetery Records from Dauphin County Pennsylvania collected and compiled by the late Dr. Glenn P. Schwalm and presented by Schuylkill Roots

• Collected Records of Frieden's Lutheran & Reformed Church Norwegian (now Branch) Township Schuylkill County, PA and St. John's Evangelical Lutheran & Reformed Church Friedensburg, Wayne Township Schuylkill County, PA collected and compiled by the late Dr. Glenn P. Schwalm and presented by Schuylkill Roots

• Combined Records of First Reformed Church & Trinity Reformed Church at Pottsville, Schuylkill County Pennsylvania by Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock

• Combined Records of Saint Jacob's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Pine Grove, and Salem's Hetzel's Church Evangelical Lutheran Congregation, Pine Grove Township compiled by the late Dr. Glenn P. Schwalm and presented by Schuylkill Roots (Salem Hetzel's portion only)

• Dauphin County Church Records, Vol. I by Pastor Frederick S. Weiser

• Draper Collection  Preston and Virginia Papers Calendar Series Volume 1

• Draper Collection  The Kentucky Papers Calendar Series Volume 2

• Draper Collection  Tennessee and Kings Mountain Papers Calendar Series Volume 3

• Early History of St. Paul's (Summer Hill) Lutheran and Reformed Church by "Schuylkill Roots" Researchers

• Early Methodism in Ashland and Girardville, Schuylkill County, PA Records of the Methodist Episcopal Church at Ashland and Methodist Episcopal Church at Girardville by Phillip A. Rice & Jean A. Dellock

• Early Records of St. Paul's Episcopal Church at Minersville Schuylkill County Pennsylvania compiled from the Original Records by Phillip A. Rice "Schuylkill Roots" Researchers

• Early Transportation - Schuylkill County by the Historical Society of Schuylkill County

• Exploring Blaenavon Industrial Landscape World Heritage Site by Chris Barber

• Family History: Mid-Atlantic Genealogies, 1340 - 1940 (FTM CD 156)

• Family History: Southern Biographies and Genealogies, 1500s - 1940s (FTM CD 500)

• Friedensburg Lutheran Parish - 1962 Yearbook, Friedensburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

• Friedensburg Lutheran Parish - 1963 Yearbook, Friedensburg, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania

• Genealogical Records: Egle's Notes and Queries of Pennsylvania, 1700s - 1800s (FTM CD 19)

• Greenwood Cemetery (1896) Tower City, Porter Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania compiled by Phillip A. Rice

• Heath's German and English Dictionary 1906

• Heritage 1976 Minersville Area Bicentennial Celebration Commemorative Book (1776 - 1976)

• Historic Families of Kentucky by Thomas Marshall Green

• Historical Account of the Mollie Maguires by A. Monroe Aurand, Jr.

• Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, Part One by Sherman Day

• Historical Collections of the State of Pennsylvania, Part Two by Sherman Day

• Historical Collections of Virginia by Henry Howe

• History of Augusta County, Virginia by J. Lewis Peyton

• History of Pine Grove, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania compiled by Judge George B. Haas

• History of Pinegrove Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA  Re-printed from Joseph H. Zerbey History

• History of Rockbridge County Virginia by Oren F. Morton

• History of Washington Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA  Re-printed from Joseph H. Zerbey History

• Images of America - Early Coal Mining in the Anthracite Region by John Stuart Richards

• Images of America - Schuylkill County by Leo L. Ward and Mark T. Major

• Images of America - Schuylkill County Volume II by Leo L. Ward and Mark T. Major

• Images of America - Southern Schuylkill County by Jennifer L. Bowen-Frantz

• Indian Raids and Massacres of Southwest Virginia by Luther F. Addington and Emery L. Hamilton

• Land Records: AL, AR, FL, LA, MI, MN OH, WI, 1790 - 1907 (FTM CD 255)

• Lebanon - A Panorama - 250 years 1740 - 1990 by the Lebanon County Historical Society

• Lebanon County: A Post Card History by the Lebanon County Historical Society

• Lebanon County at the Battle of Gettysburg by the Lebanon County Historical Society (Vol. XII, No. 5)

• Lebanon Valley, Pennsylvania History and Genealogy by Robert A. Heilman & Rev. P.C. Croll (Heritage Books, Inc. CD 1110)

• Life and Times of the Pine Grove Area by Pine Grove Bicentennial Committee

• Local and Family Histories: New England, 1600s - 1900s (FTM CD 449)

• Making Sense of The Molly Maguires by Kevin Kenny

• Military Records: U.S. Soldiers 1734 - 1811 (FTM CD 146)

• Minersville Evangelical Lutheran Congregation Baptisms, Deaths, Marriages

• Monarchy, Behind the Scenes with the Royal Family by Brian Hoey

• Mountain Majesties by Charles A. Strange

• Nine Men on the Bench by Edna J. Carmean

• Odd Fellows (I.O.O.F.) Cemetery Shenandoah Heights, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania collected & Compiled by Phillip A. Rice

• Old Schuylkill: A Video History

• Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1538 - 1940 (FTM CD 354)

• Passenger and Immigration Lists: Boston, 1821 - 1850 (FTM CD 256)

• Passenger and Immigration Lists: Irish to America, 1846 - 1865 (FTM CD 357)

• Pennsylvania Railroad by Mike Schafer & Brian Solomon

• Pine Grove Area...A Postcard History (First Edition) by the Pine Grove Historical Society

• Pine Grove Area...A Postcard History (Second Edition) by the Pine Grove Historical Society

• Pine Grove Area...A Postcard History (Third Edition) by the Pine Grove Historical Society

• Pine Grove Area Churches and Related Data compiled by Pearl Rhein Kreichbaum

• Pine Grove Area Rural Schools and Related Data compiled by Pearl Rhein Kreichbaum

• Pine Grove Borough Schools and Related Data compiled by Pearl Rhein Kreichbaum

• Records of Pastoral Acts at Zion Lutheran Church, Harrisburg, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania 1795 - 1827 by Frederick S. Weiser

• Records of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church, Harrisburg 1795 to 1843, Volume I

• St. Patrick High School Alumni Directory  1982 - Chicago's Oldest Boys Catholic High School

• St. Paul or Artz's Church Lutheran and Reformed, Sacramento, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, Parish Registers 1839 - 1912

• St. Paul or "White" Church at Ringtown, Union Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania by Dr. Glenn P. Schwalm

• St. Paul's (White Church) Cemetery and Reformed Congregation Records (1874 - 1913 with Collected Cemeteries of Union Township and North Union Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania by Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock

• Salem Hetzel's Church, 200th Anniversary 1783 - 1983 Washington Twp., Schuylkill Co., PA

• Salem-Hetzel's Lutheran and Reformed Cemetery Hetzel's Church Road, Washington Township, Schuylkill County, PA -  tombstone transcriptions

• Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Archives, Volume I by Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock

• Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Archives, Volume II by Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock

• Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Archives, Volume III by Phillip A. Rice and Jean A. Dellock

• Schuylkill County PA Death Records 1893 - 1895 compiled by Stephen J. Dellock

• Schuylkill County PA Death Records Volume 2 compiled by Stephen J. Dellock

• Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Genealogy, Volume I by J.H. Beers 1916

• Schuylkill County Pennsylvania Genealogy, Volume II by J.H. Beers 1916

• Selected U.S./International Marriage Records, 1340 - 1980 (FTM CD 403)

• Tales of the Mine Country by Eric McKeever

• Tales of Torfaen by W.G. Lloyd (Wales)

• Tennessee Cousins ~ A History of Tennessee People by Worth S. Ray

• The A-Z Guide to Tracing Ancestors in Britain by Pauline Saul & F.C. Markwell

• The Bicentennial Almanac edited by Calvin D. Linton, Ph.D., 200 years of America

• The Blue Eyed Six by Edna J. Carmean

• The Explorer's Guide to the Abbeys, Monasteries and Churches of Great Britain by Frank Bottomly

• The Hundredth Anniversary of the Methodist Church, Minersville, PA 1852-1952 by Rev. Ellsworth A. Lindenmuth, S.T.B., Minister

• The Pastons and Their England by H.S. Bennett

• The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine by Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania (Volume XL-No. 3 & 4)

• The Snyder County Historical Society Bulletin (years 1918, 1920, 1972 - 1989 only)

• The Story of America by Reader's Digest

• The Weitzel Memorial  Historical and Genealogical Record of the Descendants of Paul Weitzel of Lancaster, PA by Rev. Horace Edwin Hayden

• Three Hundred Years of Pennsylvania 1683 - 1983 Lebanon County in Old Words and Pictures by Lebanon County Commissioners and Lebanon County Historical Society

• Tracing Your Roots by Meg Wheeler

• Vital Records Index - North America by Family Search (LDS)

• Washington County, Rhode Island Births 1770 - 1850 compiled by Alden G. Beaman, Ph.D

• Wedding Chimes - Wedding planner for Robert C. Chick and Mary E. Giffin of Rochester NY, married August 31, 1928.  Includes marriage certificate and guest list.  This small book will be given FREE  to anyone who is researching this Chick or Giffin family.  E-mail me with your mailing address and connection to the family.

• Welsh-English / English-Welsh Dictionary by D. Geraint Lewis

• World Family Tree (FTM CD)
  Volume 1
  Volume 2
  Volume 3
  Volume 4
  Volume 5

• World Family Tree European Origins (FTM CD)
  Volume E1

• Writing Family Histories and Memoirs by Kirk Polking

• Zion's Evangelical German Lutheran Church of Girardville, Schuylkill Co., Penna. compiled by Dr. Glenn P. Schwalm

• Zion's Evangelical Lutheran Church  Jonestown, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania

• 1840 Census (indexed)
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1850 Census (indexed)
  State of Pennsylvania

• 1851 Census transcribed by Gordon W. Beavington
  Bristol, England
  Gloucestershire, England
  Somerset, England
  Wiltshire, England

• 1860 Census (indexed)
  Dauphin County, PA
  Lebanon County, PA
  Northumberland County, PA
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1870 Census (indexed)
  Dauphin County, PA
  Lebanon County, PA
  Northumberland County, PA
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1880 Census
  Dauphin County, PA
  Lebanon County, PA
  Northumberland County, PA
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1880 United States Census and National Index by LDS

• 1881 British Census and National Index by LDS

• 1890 Census Directory
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1890 Veterans and Widows of Veterans Census Schedules
  Columbia County, PA
  Dauphin County, PA
  Lebanon County, PA
  Montour County, PA
  Northumberland County, PA
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1900 Census
  Dauphin County, PA
  Lebanon County, PA
  Northumberland County, PA
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1910 Census
  Dauphin County, PA
  Lebanon County, PA
  Northumberland County, PA
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1920 Census
  Dauphin County, PA
  Lebanon County, PA
  Northumberland County, PA
  Schuylkill County, PA

• 1930 Census
  Schuylkill County, PA

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