The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, Vol 41, No 2, Title and Contents

t\ ww~' THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE w Volume 41 — Number 2 Fall/Winter 1999 Published by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania 1305 Locust Street, Philadelphia 19107 THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA 1999-2000 OFFICERS Hon. Herbert K. Zearfoss Jane Adams Clarke John Howard Platt Jr. John A. Baird Jr. Jefferson M. Moak Walter Stock, CGRS Peter S. Craig, Esq. Francis James Dallett Terry A. McNealy L. Jeanne Pontarelli L. Jeanne Pontarelli Lewis L. Neilson Jr., Esq. Michael W. Freeland, Esq. President: Honorary Presidents: Vice Presidents: Honorary Vice Presidents: Secretary: Treasurer: Counsel: DIRECTORS Terms expiring 2001 Terms expiring 2000 Richard W. Palmer, Esq. Jonathan R. Stayer Vivian Taylor Kellee Green Blake Susan S. Koelble Russell F. Weigley Terms expiring 2002 Elizabeth B. Bunting Annette K. Burgert Herbert D. Hart FELLOWS OF THE GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY OF PENNSYLVANIA Annette Kunselman Burgert Jane Adams Clarke Peter Stebbins Craig Dr. Don Yoder Francis James Dallett Walter Lee Sheppard Jr. Rev. Carl T. Smith STAFF Executive Director: James M. Beidler Rose Mary McKeown Office Manager: David T. Moore Library: Dorothy Rodgers David E. Pace Bookkeeping: THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE / Before 1948 called Publications of the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania Volume 41 Number 2 Fall/Winter 1999 Publications Committee Jane Adams Clarke, FGSP, Chair Marion F. Egge, Editor Kay H. Freilich, CGRS, Book Review Editor James M. Beidler Elizabeth B. Bunting Jonathan R. Stayer Russell F. Weigley Jeffrey L. Scheib, Consulting Editor Copyright © 2000 by the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1305 Locust Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19107-5405. The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine (ISSN 0882-3685) is published twice per annum (Spring /Summer and Fall/ Win ter). 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Beidler 132 Genealogical Caveat 133 Hannah Benner Roach The Bames-Logan Bible from the GSP Bible Records Collection Kay Haviland Freilich, CG 139 County of Philadelphia: School Children Enumerations Compiled by GSP volunteers 144 Reviews Adieman, Waiting for the Lord: Nineteenth Century Black Communities in Susquehanna County, Pennsylvania, by John A. Baird Jr . 188 Burgoyne, trans. and ed., Diaries of Two Ansbach Jaegers; by John A. Baird Jr. . . 189 .. Fisher, New York City Methodist Marriages, 1785-1893, by Charles C. Mathews . . . 191 Hinckley, Locating Lost Family Members & Friends: Modem Genealogical Research Techniques for Locating the People of Your Past and Present, by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG 192 Martin, comp., Society of Colonial Wars in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Centennial Register: Lineage of Members, 1893—1998, by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG . g 193 THE PENNSYLVANIA GENEALOGICAL MAGAZINE Volume 41, Number 2 Fall/Winter 1999 Koelble and Bryson, abstr. & ed., Philadelphia Mayor's Marriage Records: Volume I: 1856-1870; Volume II: 1871-1885, 194 by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG Barnes, Guide to Research in York & Adams Counties, Pennsylvania, by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG 195 Brief Reviews Reviewed by Jeanne Pontarelli Reviewed by John A. Baird Jr Reviewed by Kay Haviland Freilich, CG 196 198 199 Recent Reprints/New Editions 200 Information Wanted 202 Advertising 203