READING ROOM FLOORPLAN

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1. Information Files. Miscellaneous information and newspaper clippings. Arranged alphabetically by subject.

2. Family Files. Information about Lancaster County families submitted by staff and researchers. Arranged alphabetically by surname.

3. Microfilm. Local Newspapers, Lancaster Sunday News.

4. Microfilm. (mf: microfilm reader)

• Drawers 1-6: Church Records, Lancaster County Orphans Court Records 1742-1867, Lancaster County Will Books 1729-1908, Lancaster County Tax Records 1750-1845.
• Drawers 8-12: Lancaster County Deed Books.
• Drawers 13-14: Federal Census – Maryland & Delaware various years, Pennsylvania 1790-1930. Pennslyvania Index books on top of drawers.
• Drawers 15-16: PA State and County records.
• Drawers 17-48: Newspapers.

5. Card Catalog. 19th century newspaper marriages and deaths, unrecorded deeds.

6. Computers with access to online card catalog, databases, and Internet. Restrictions on time and useage may apply.

7. Photocopier. All copies are ¢25 per page. Machine takes coins, one and five dollar bills.

8. Atlas and Map Stand. Contains maps and atlases of Lancaster and surrounding counties, as well as Pennsylvania.

9. Reference Desk.

SHELF UNITS

10. Pennsylvania German Pioneers by Strassburger and Hinke. Bates’ History of Pennsylvania Volunteers with index. Genealogical information for other states including Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina.

11. Index to pensions from Revolutionary War and War of 1812. Pennsylvania German Church Records, Vol. 1-3. Pennsylvania land records including abstracts of Lancaster County deeds to circa 1770. Egle’s Notes and Queries.

12. Miscellaneous books of ship passenger lists. Germans to America series, 1840- circa 1890s. Filby books, alphabetical by surname. Will abstracts for Philadelphia and York County to 1820.

13. Pennsylvania Heritage, Palatine Immigrant, Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage. Reference guides to genealogical research by nationality. Will abstracts for Berks, Chester, Cumberland, and Lancaster Counties to 1820.

14. Periodicals: Pennsylvania History, Pennsylvania German Society, Pennsylvania Folklife, Mennonite Research Journal, Mennonite Family History.

15. D.A.R., Sons of the Revolution, and General Society of the War of 1812 Patriot Indexes. Periodicals: Pennsylvania Genealogical Society Quarterly, Pennsylvania Magazine.

16. Brethren, Huguenot, and Scots-Irish information. Dictionaries and Encyclopedias. Pennsylvania Archives Sixth to Ninth Series.

17. Biographical Annals of Lancaster County, History of Lancaster County by Ellis and
Evans. Miscellaneous church records of early Lancaster County. Index to will and
intestate records, 1729-1850. Tax list indexes. Pennsylvania Archives up to Fifth Series.

18. Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society including surname index.

19. Lancaster city and county directories, beginning in the 1850’s.

20. Tombstone inscriptions including the Worner Collection, Grave Undertakings
Vols. 1-4 by Martha Xakellis, and Churches And Cemeteries of Lancaster County – A
Complete Guide by A. Hunter Rineer. 1815 Direct Tax. Lancaster County atlases of 1864, 1875, and 1899 and Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps of Lancaster city (on top of shelves).