1: Research and Records
2: Archives and Libraries
3: Vital and Census Records
4: Church and Cemetery Records
5: Emigration and Immigration
6: Military Records
7: Probate, Land and Court
8: Maps and Gazetteers
9: Newspapers
10: Websites
11: Search Records
12: Get Help
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Goal 12: Get help with your Pennsylvania research.
Choices
AUse Facebook pages to get answers to your questions.
- Visit the Pennsylvania Genealogy Network page on Facebook.
- Visit the Pennsylvania Genealogy page on Facebook.
- Visit the Pennsylvania Genealogy - Just Ask! page on Facebook.
- See the Genealogy on Facebook list of Facebook groups dedicated to helping with research for Pennsylvania.
Regional Groups
BJoin a mailing list or message board for Pennsylvania research.
- Join the RootsChat forum and post questions about Pennsylvania research.
- Explore the Pennsylvania research mailing lists on Cyndi's List.
- Explore the
FamilySearch community for help with Pennsylvania research. - Use the Ancestry message boards to read or post questions about Pennsylvania research.
- Explore Pennsylvania research questions in the Genealogy Stack Exchange.
- Get personalized help from a research volunteer at the Family History Library.
- Request scans or indexes from catalog records available at the Family History Library.
CLearn about Pennsylvania genealogy societies.
- Explore the Genealogy Society of Pennsylvania site.
- Learn about genealogy societies in Pennsylvania in this FamilySearch Wiki article.
FS—Wiki: Pennsylvania Societies - Visit the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania page on Facebook.
- Explore Pennsylvania genealogy society sites on Cyndi's List.
- Get help at a FamilySearch center in Pennsylvania.
Regional Groups
Exercises
- * Proficient: Make a list of Facebook groups, mailing lists, and genealogy societies of interest, and then join or subscribe to them.
Pennsylvania Counties
Name = FamilySearch; A = Ancestry; L = Linkpendium; G = Genealogy Inc; U = USGenWeb; T = GenealogyTrails; F = Facebook
QUIKLinks: County Records