|
William Henry Egle's Notes and Queries began as a newspaper
column in the Harrisburg Daily Telegraph between 1879 and
1895, then it was later published in five annual volumes between
1896 and 1900. Republished by the Genealogical Publishing Company
as a twelve-volume set, the complete Notes and Queries
features a wide variety of information for more than 109,000 individuals.
The information included in Notes and Queries originated
in family histories, marriage, church, and tax records, tombstone
inscriptions, and military records, but is not just limited to
basic names and dates. Many fascinating articles on a variety
of subjects relating to the times and people of the Pennsylvania
area are included.
Browsing, I found articles on a number of subjects: biographies,
town and area histories, correspondence, family records, histories
of subjects (such as fire-proof buildings, the magnetic telegraph,
etc.), court cases, church records, wills, obituaries, military
records, births and marriages, and much more. The sample of subjects
listed in the table of contents of the Third Series, Volume III,
shows the wide scope of historical topics addressed in Notes
and Queries:
- Adamantine Guards
- Auglaize, The Battle of the
- Bald Eagle not killed by Brady
- Bibliophile, A Modern
- Biographical Sketches [numerous]
- An incident of The Black Boys
- The Burds of Tinian
- Buried Treasure
- Caernarvon, Lancaster County, Pioneer Settlers in
- Cameron, Gen. Simon, Letter from New Orleans
- Campbell, Col. Thomas, of the Revolution
- Cattle, Marking of in 1755
- Coal, Experiments in burning in Locomotives
- Connecticut Intruders, The
- Continental Money, Emissions of
- Covenanter History, Items of
- Cumberland Valley Worthies
- Decoration Day
- Downey, John, Letter of
- Edmonds, William, Incidents in the Life of
- Egle, Dr. William H. Address at the Ruthorford Golden Wedding
- Elizabeth Furnace Estate, Sketch of
- Federal Constitution, Dates of Ratification
- Fort Pitt, Distances from, Westaward, Indian Treaty at
- Freight Charges Seventy Years Ago
- Genealogical Data
- Genealogical Notes
- Genealogy, the first printed in America
- Germans, English Settlers Contempt for
- Gettysburg, Origin of Name
- Gibson's Lambs
- Gray, Robert, Reminiscenses of
- Gray, Capt. William, Pension Records of
- Hanover Church, Tombstone Records
- Harrisburg, A Ride from Shank's Hill to
- Henry, John Joseph, Burial Place of
- Heroic Family, An
- Hue and Cry in 1707
- Huguenots of Lykens Valley
- Inauguration, The First
- Indian Letter, An
- Iroquois Indian Names
- Kean, John, Autobiography of
- Lancaster, Pastors of Moravian Church at
- Legislative Anecdote
- Legislature of 1828-29
- Lehigh, Early Fishing in the
- Lincoln, President, The Ancestry of
- Londonderry, A Neglected Graveyard in
- Manor of White Church
- Mason & Dixon's Line
- Mexican War, Pennsylvania in the
- Middletown Items
- Mills, Old
- Navigation, Early Susquehanna
- Old Times and Old People
- Paxtan Church, Old Schoolmaster of
- Pennsylvania-German Society
- Pennsylvanians, Death of Noted
- Pioneers Life
- Provincial Times, Correspondence of
- Railroad, First in the U.S.
- Revolution, Lancaster Battalions in
- Revolutionary Heroine
- Road From Harris' Ferry to the Potomac
- Roads, Old
- St. Clair's Defeat, Officers Killed at
- Susquehanna, Islands in the
- Swatara, Old Time Ruins in
- Teedyuscung, Anecdotes of
- Theater and Circus in the Long Ago
- Tombstone Records
- United Brethern Conference, The First
- Van Hoff, Rev. A. H., Baptismal Register of
- Western Pennsylvania in 1825
- Wyoming Massacre of 1768
- Yorktown Diary, A
|
 |
February
24, 1999
 |
Related Data on CD-ROM |
 |
|
More
Articles |
|
|
Helpful
Web Sites |
|
|
On
the Message Boards |
|
|
|
