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Hi! I'm Denyse Allen, Founder of PA Ancestors
I help genealogists research their ancestors in Pennsylvania through books, workshops, and a membership community.
Where was your PA ancestor in 1826? Reader, We just spent the spring on 1776. But your ancestor lived through every American milestone after it — and each one left a different paper trail. Over the next six weeks I’m walking the anniversaries: 1826, 1876, 1926, 1976, and then two posts on what makes Pennsylvania research genuinely its own animal. We start with the hardest one. In 1826, the country turned fifty. On July 4 — the exact half-century mark — John Adams and Thomas Jefferson died...
PAancestors.com Free this week: immigration records for your PA ancestors Hello Reader! If you have an immigrant ancestor who landed in Pennsylvania, the arrival record is one of the most useful documents you can find. It often names the ship, the port of departure, the date, an age, sometimes a last residence or a relative waiting in the States — the bridge that carries your research back across the ocean. MyHeritage keeps a number of these collections free to search and view. I went through...
PAancestors.com Loyalist Records: The Pennsylvania Ancestors Who Chose the Other Side Hello Reader! When the British evacuated Philadelphia in June 1778, approximately 3,000 Loyalists left with them. Some went to New York, some to Nova Scotia, some to England. Many never came back. Their property was seized, their names published on attainder lists, and their families scattered. If your Pennsylvania ancestor disappears from the records between 1778 and 1785, Loyalist records are worth...