This is such a rich content video. Even if you have read multiple History of x county PA books, these visualizations are a tremendous resource. Thank you!
Thank you so much for bringing us this presentation. I had many "ah-ha" moments as the gaps in the PA records, especially birth, marriage, and death records that simply weren't collected when my ancestors lived in PA. I had been searching Luzerne County for births in the 1870s and trying to determine when the family left the coal fields of NE Pennsylvania for the silver mines of Colorado. I did find newspapers that talked a good deal about the mining districts of Colorado, so it was no accident they went to where the ores were still robust in 1892. I also noted the incredible number of injuries and deaths in the coal mines of Luzerne, Lackawanna and surrounding counties in those decades. The names of those killed changed from largely Welsh and Irish to Slavs from the 1880s to the 1890s reflecting the changing immigration patterns. Yet, the question still dogs me, is when they arrived in Luzerne County, and how did they get from Ireland to NE Pennsylvania without the BMD records as you so eloquently explained that don't exist. I've checked the church records and they are largely wrapped around Protestant groups, not Catholic Irish, so does that leave me with the Archdiocese library in Philadelphia as my only source? Do I need to fly to Philly to make that happen? The loss of the 1890 federal census records and the paltry records for people too poor to have wills, own land, own much of anything, is leaving me facing a wall of brick. Any suggestions would sure be appreciated. Thanks.
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Tracey Tuerke is a descendant of Theodore Radcliff Tuerke, His father was also Theodore Tuerke but his middle name. There was a store in name Tuerkes in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Any info would be grateful as my son needs to know about the Tuerke Family.....my great uncle owned the store in Phillip .. I do remember a Cherry Hill... Grand grandpa Theodore actually owned a bar in Philly....I know heralded from Germany..... Some of the Tuerke actually where would go back home to get German wives. My brother is also named Theo Radcliff Tuerke the 3rd. They are Lutheran. My dad was Catholic but he converted to Lutheran. I'm a actually part Pennsylvania Dutch......I also was told I was kin to every Pugh or Pewt
This should be re-titled Resources for greater Philadelphia Genealogy. No mention whatsoever of the large migrations in the 18th c of Mayflower desc into Pa from Mass & Ct or the Dutch Germans & Welsh from NY state that came into northern Pa or the huge influx of Scots & Germans that came out of the NYC/NJ area. For those of you researching colonial family in the top half of Pa, you need to generally look northeast either toward NYC or New England. Not everyone in Pa came in through Philly as the video would have you believe.
I didn’t get that take away from the video (that all PA pre-colonial came through Philly). It’s a great guide for the majority of the pioneers of 1700s. Including every group that came through pa would be an exhaustively long video to make. I see you didn’t mention the Scottish prisoners of 1650/51 that came through pa in your comment. And I bet there are a bunch more that the both of us aren’t including so how is the creator of this video going to touch all of them in a general use video? I do agree a more appropriate title is needed.
