When asking for a lookup, please provide as much information as possible, giving full names and dates if possible. Be sure to include which reference you are referring to when
sending in your request and put the words "Philadelphia Lookup" in your subject line. Please do not send in a blanket request, for example: "looking for all of the Jones in Philadelphia."
We are volunteers, not paid researchers!The American Advertising Directory for Manufacturers and Dealers in American Goods for the year of 1832. (Listings include names of merchants, their location and what they sell) - Bill Regli Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 by J. H. Powell. - Carolyn G. Lynn Index to Seamen's Protection Certificate Applications - Port of Philadelphia 1796 - 1823 (It has over 14,000 people who applied in Philadelphia in this time period) - Ray Rhoads Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia 1800-1819. - Carolyn G. Lynn Pennsylvania German Pioneers, 1727-1808, vols. I, II, & III, by R. B. Strassburger & W. J. Hinke, Camden, ME: Picton Press, 1992. (Passenger lists of Germans arriving aboard ships in the port of Phila., PA. Mostly males 16 and over who signed the Oath of Allegiance, though a few lists contain women and children.) - Lani MacAniff St. John the Baptist Catholic Church in Manayunk, Philadelphia, PA 100th Anniversary book. From 1831 to 1931. Lots of history of Manayunk etc. - Jack Cleary Social Register of Philadelphia, 1960. - Vince Summers The Stories Behind Philadelphia Street Names - Larry 100 old Philadelphia Newspapers (Inquirers, Bulletins, Daily News) dating back to about 1900 (Click here to see a partial list of Karen's newspaper collection). - Karen
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