As part of Family History Days held at HSP on March 6, 2015, Carol Sheaffer and Nancy Nelson discuss how to sort through family stories and other sources to find your ancestors.
Topics:
- Collections
- History Online
- Digital History Projects
- Neighbors/Vecinos
- Closed for Business: The Story of Bankers Trust Company during the Great Depression
- Preserving American Freedom
- Pennsylvania Abolition Society Papers
- About the PAS Papers
- Actions Involving Fugitive Slaves
- Actions Involving Illegal Enslavement
- Cases in which Slaves were Awarded Freedom
- Habeas Corpus Actions
- Lett, Philadelphia 1785
- Thirteen Blacks Freed…1785
- Negro Bob, Philadelphia, 1785
- Thomas Cullen v. Susanna, 1785
- Negro Nancy, Philadelphia, 1786
- Negro Darby v. Armitage, 1787
- D. Boadley, Philadelphia, 1787
- Commonwealth v. John Stokes, 1787 (Jethro & Dinah)
- Lydia, Philadelphia. 1789
- PA v. Blackmore, 1790
- Phoebe, Philadelphia. 1791
- Betty v. Horsfeld, 1792
- Irvine Republica v. Gallagher, 1801
- Mary Thomas, Philadelphia. 1810
- James Grey et al, 1810
- Journal C of Station No.2, William Still, 1852-1857
- Junior Anti-Slavery Society Constitution
- Manumissions, Indentures, and other
- Miscellaneous Cases
- PAS Board of Education
- PAS Correspondence
- PAS in Context: A Timeline
- The PAS and American Abolitionism
- PhilaPlace
- William Still Digital History Project
- Anonymous No More: John Fryer, Psychiatry, and the Fight for LGBT Equality
- Digital Paxton
- The Tobias Lear Journal: An Account of the Death of George Washington
- Exhibits
- Media Library
- Historic Images, New Technologies
- Philadelphia History Channel
- Explore Philly
- Digital History Projects
- Publications
- Education