Pennsylvania Minority Records online include African American records, Native American Records, Japanese American Records, and more. This is a preliminary list.
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Pennsylvania Minority Records Online at the federal level
US – African American – Discover Freedmen, at FS (searches FS Freedmen’s Bureau records), at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau Miscellaneous Records,1865-1872, index links to images (misc, court, land, labor, medical, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen, 1865-1872, index & images (census, labor, immigration, slavery, birth, death, military, African American) NOT IN DISCOVER FREEDMEN DATABASE SEARCHES, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedman’s Bank Records, 1865-1874, index & images (bank, business, family information, African American), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Hospital and Medical Records, 1865-1872, index & images (medical, African American, cemetery, birth, death, family names), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Marriages, 1861-1872, index & images, at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Ration Records,1865-1872, index & images (African American, rations, relief, slavery, slave owners), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau Records of Persons and Articles Hired, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, employment, medical), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Freedmen’s Court Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, court, military, school, misc), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Land and Property Records, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, land, court), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of Freedmen’s Complaints, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Bureau, Records of the Superintendent of Education and of the Division of Education, 1865-1872, index & images (African American, school, legal), at FS
US – African American – United States, Freedmen’s Branch Records, 1872-1878, at FS
US – African American – US Freedmen’s Bureau Marriage Records, 1846-1867, at Anc$
US – African American – USGenWeb Project: African American Archives, at USGWA
US – African American – Great slave narratives, IA
US – African American – African American genealogy: a bibliography and guide to sources, at FS
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol I, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol II, IA
US – African American – African American slave narratives Vol III, IA
US – African American – African, Americans and the Gettysburg campaign, IA
US – African American – Before the Mayflower : a history of the Negro in America, 1619, 1964, IA
US – African American – Black courage 1775, 1783: Documentation of Black participation in the American Revolution, IA
US – African American – Black genesis : a resource book for African, American genealogy, IA
US – African American – Black Indian genealogy research, IA
US – African American – Black slavery emancipation research in the Northern States, FS
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops : 1st through 5th United States Colored Cavalry, 5th Massachusetts Cavalry (Colored), 6th United States Colored Cavalry : pamphlet describing M1817, IA
US – African American – Compiled military service records of volunteer Union Soldiers who served with the United States Colored Troops, infantry organizations, 14th through 19th, IA
US – African American – Finding a place called home : a guide to African, American genealogy and historical identity, IA
US – African American – Forgotten patriots : African American and American Indian patriots of the Revolutionary War : a guide to service, sources, and studies, DAR
US – African American – Free Negro owners of slaves in the United States in 1830, together with Absentee ownership of slaves in the United States in 1830, GB
US – African American – Generations past : a selected list of sources for Afro, American genealogical research, at FS
US – African American – History of the American negro and his institutions, at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 1. Cases from the courts of England, Virginia, West Virginia, and Kentucky), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 2. Cases from the courts of North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 3. Cases from the courts of Georgia, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, and Louisiana), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 4. Cases from the Courts of New England, the Middle States, and the District of Columbia), at FS
US – African American – Judicial cases concerning American slavery and the Negro (Vol. 5. Cases from the Courts of States North of the Ohio and west of the Mississippi Rivers, Canada and Jamaica), at FS
US – African American – List of Black servicemen compiled from the War Department collection of Revolutionary War records, at FS
US – African American – List of free black heads of families in the first census of the United States, 1790, at FS
US – African American – Memorials of Lieut. George H. Walcott, late of the 30th U.S. Colored Troops, HT
US – African American – Missing pages in American history : revealing the services of Negroes in the early wars in the United States of America, 1641, 1815, GB
US – African American – Negro population in the United States, 1790, 1915, HT
US – African American – Noted Negro women : their triumphs and activities, at FS
US – African American – Patriots of color: a peculiar beauty and merit : African Americans and Native Americans at Battle Road & Bunker Hill, HT
US – African American – Progress of a race, or, The remarkable advancement of the American Negro : from the bondage of slavery, ignorance, and poverty to the freedom of citizenship, intelligence, affluence, honor and trust, at FS
US – African American – Recollections of a colored troop, LOC
US – African American – Record of the services of the seventh regiment U.S. colored troups, at FS
US – African American – Reminiscences of my life in camp with the 33rd United States Colored Troops, late 1st S.C. Volunteers, GB
US – African American – Report to the Freedmen’s Inquiry Commission, 1864 : the refugees from slavery in Canada West, HT
US – African American – Services of colored Americans in the wars of 1776 and 1812, at FS
US – African American – Slavery in the courtroom: an annotated bibliography of American cases, HT
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, GB
US – African American – The colored patriots of the American Revolution, with sketches of several distinguished colored persons : to which is added a brief survey of the condition and prospects of colored Americans, GB
US – African American – The Forty, Third Regiment United States Colored Troops, Gutenberg
US – African American – The National cyclopedia of the colored race, GB
US – African American – The negro as a soldier in the war of the rebellion, LOC
US – African American – The Negro soldier : a select compilation, at FS
US – African American – The underground rail road : a record of facts, authentic narratives, letters, &c. narrating the hardships hair, breadth escapes and death struggles of the slaves in their efforts for freedom, as related by themselves and others, or witnessed by the author, HathiTrust
US – African American – The Underground railroad from slavery to freedom, Gutenberg
US – African American – Two colored women with the American Expeditionary Forces, at FS
US – African American – Who’s who in colored America : an illustrated biographical directory of nolable living persons of African descent in the United States, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Census Rolls, 1885-1940, index, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Enrollment Records, 1908-1910, index, at FS
US – Native American – United States, Native American, Eastern Cherokee Indian Reservation Rolls, 1848-1970, index, at FS
Pennsylvania Minority Records Online at the state level
Pennsylvania – African American – Pennsylvania Obits, at AG
Pennsylvania – African American – A comparison of negro and white labor in a charcoal iron community, at FS
Pennsylvania – African American – A picture of slavery, drawn from the decision of southern courts, at IA
Pennsylvania – African American – Pennsylvania Negro Business directory, 1910, at HT
Pennsylvania – African American – Documenting our Past: The Teenie Harris Archive Project
Pennsylvania – African American – Free at Last? Slavery in Pittsburgh in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Pennsylvania – African American – Annals of the first African church, in the United States of America, at FS
Pennsylvania – African American – Pennsylvania Abolition Society. Manumissions and indentures, ca. 1780-1840, arranged by name of master or slaveholder. 7 rolls., at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – 25 year index to Pennsylvania folklife (including The Pennsylvania Dutchman and The Dutchman), volumes 1-25, 1949-1976, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – A history of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741-1892 : with some account of its founders and their early activity in America, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Card index to Pennsylvania Germans in the magazines : Proceedings and addresses (Pennsylvania German Society); Pennsylvania Dutchman; PGFS or Pennsylvania German Folklore Society; Penn-Germania; The Pennsylvania-German; Historical review of Berks County; Reprint, the Morning call; some copied Bible records, 1713-1951, and news clippings, index, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Early Swedish family data, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Emigrants from the Palatinate to the American colonies in the 18th century, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Franconia Mennonites, the eighteenth century settlement : a catalogue, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Habeas Corpus, 1771-1773, 1775, 1785-1787, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Historical sketch of Bethlehem in Pennsylvania : with some account of the Moravian church, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Historical sketches of the Swedes on the Delaware, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Johannes Schwalm Historical Association (Gratz, Pennsylvania), at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Memorials of the Huguenots in America : with special reference to the emigration to Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Memorials of the Huguenots in America, with special reference to their emigration to Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Miscellaneous records pertaining to early Swedish settlements in Pennsylvania, New Jersey & Delaware, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Pennsylvania folklife, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Popular home remedies and superstitions of the Pennsylvania Germans, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Surname index to History of the German Baptist brethren, index, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Swedish landmarks in the Delaware Valley, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The genealogical record of the Schwenkfelder families : seekers of religious liberty who fled from Silesia to Saxony and thence to Pennsylvania in the years 1731 to 1737, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The German and Swiss settlements of colonial Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The German emigration from New York Province into Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Pennsylvania Dutchman : the monthly devoted to Pennsylvania Dutch culture, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Pennsylvania dutchman, and wherein he has excelled, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Pennsylvania Germans : a reprint of chapter three in the Jacoby family genealogy, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Pennsylvania Germans : a sketch of their history and life, of the Mennonites, and of side lights from the Rosenberger family, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications], Pennsylvania German Society, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Pennsylvania-German, Pennsylvania German Society, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Quakers; a brief account of their influence on Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania Historical Association (Gettysburg, Pennsylvania), at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Scotch-Irish in America : their history, traits, institutions and influences; especially as illustrated in the early settlers of western Pennsylvania and their descendants, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – The Swedish settlements on the Delaware. Christina, Queen of the Swedes, the Goths, and the Vends : a presentation of her portrait to the Historical Society of Pennsylvania 16 April 1877, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Welsh founders of Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Welsh settlement of Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Pennsylvania German Folklore Society (Series), Pennsylvania German Folklore Society (Allentown, Pennsylvania), at FS
Pennsylvania – Minorities – Pennsylvania German folklore, an interpretation: a paper read at the annual meeting of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society held at old First Evangelical Reformed Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on May 10, 1952, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Catalogue, 1912, United States Indian School (Carlisle, Pennsylvania), at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – History, manners, and customs of the Indian nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighboring states, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – History, manners, and customs of the Indian nations who once inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighbouring states, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Indian census rolls, Carlisle School, 1911, United States. Bureau of Indian Affairs, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Indian traders, 1743-1775 ; Letters of marque, 1778-1782, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Indian treaties printed by Benjamin Franklin, 1736-1762, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Indians in Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Report of the Commission to locate the site of the frontier forts of Pennsylvania, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Some account of the conduct of the Religious society of Friends towards the Indian tribes in the settlement of the colonies of East and West Jersey and Pennsylvania: with a brief narrative of their labours for the civilization and Christian instruction of the Indians, from the time of their settlement in America, to the year 1844, Society of Friends. Aborigines’ Committee, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Susquehanna settlers [and] Western lands, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – The Wilderness Trail : or, The ventures and adventures of the Pennsylvania traders on the Allegheny Path: with some new annals of the Old West, and the records of some strong men and some bad ones, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – Causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawanese Indians from the British interest, at FS
Pennsylvania – Native American – The Indians of Berks County, Pa. : being a summary of all the tangible records of the aborigines of Berks Co., with cuts and descriptions of the varieties of relics found within the county, at FS
Pennsylvania – Swedish American – New Sweden Deeds, at FS
Pennsylvania Minority Records Online at the county level
Adams County – Minorities – Register of Negroes and Mulattoes, 1800-1820, at FS
Allegheny County – Minorities – The Life and Work of the Croatian People in Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, at FS
Bedford County – Native Races – Early Colonial Times in Bedford County Prior to 1750 : the Old Allegheny Indian Trail; the Shawnee Indian Migration 1698; Pioneer Indian Traders, French and English, at FS
Bedford County – Native Races – Indian Eve and Her Descendants : an Indian Story of Bedford County, Pennsylvania, at FS
Bedford County – Slavery and Bondage – Slave Records, 1780-1834, at FS
Berks County – Minorities – The Huguenot Element in the Settlement of Berks County, at FS
Berks County – Native Races – Indian Massacres in Berks County and the Story of Regina, the Indian Captive, at FS
Berks County – Native Races – The Indians of Berks County, Pa. : Being a Summary of All the Tangible Records of the Aborigines of Berks Co., with Cuts and Descriptions of the Varieties of Relics Found Within the County, at FS
Bucks County – Slavery and Bondage – Record of Indentures 1810-1893; Accounts of the Directors of the Poor and the House of Employment 1809-1822, at FS
Bucks County – Slavery and Bondage – Register of Slaves, Ca. 1783-1830, at FS
Centre County – Minorities – Birth Returns for Negroes and Mulattos, 1803-1820, No. 1-14, at FS
Chester County – Slavery and Bondage – History of the Underground Railroad in Chester and the Neighboring Counties of Pennsylvania, at FS
Cumberland County – Slavery and Bondage – Cumberland County, Pa., Negro Slaves Name & Age Returns, 1780, 1791, 1828, at FS
Cumberland County – Slavery and Bondage – Slave Returns, 1780-1833, at FS
Fayette County – Minorities – Birth Returns for Negroes and Mulattoes, 1788-1826 : Includes Certificates of Registry Received from Other Counties 1785, 1803, 1805, 1807-1808 and Miscellaneous Papers 1823, 1830, N.d., at FS
Lancaster County – Minorities – Returns of Negro and Mulatto Children, 1788-1793; Index to Slaves, 1780-1834, at FS
Lancaster County – Native Races – American Indians : the Who, What and Whence of the Pre-Columbian Dwellers, or the Misnomered Peoples, Indians, of Lancaster County, at FS
Lancaster County – Native Races – Lancaster County Indians : Annals of the Susquehannocks and Other Indian Tribes of the Susquehanna Territory from About the Year 1500 to 1763, the Date of Their Extinction; an Exhaustive and Interesting Series of Historical Papers Descriptive of Lancaster County’s Indians Prior to and During the Advent of the Paleface, at FS
Lancaster County – Slavery and Bondage – Returns of Negro and Mulatto Children, 1788-1793; Index to Slaves, 1780-1834, at FS
Mifflin County – Minorities – History – Amish of Kishacoquillas Valley : Mifflin County, Pa, at FS
Northampton County – Minorities – Miscellaneous Manuscript Records of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, 1727-1851, at FS
Northampton County – Minorities – The Scotch-Irish of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, at FS
Perry County – Native Races – History of Perry County, Pennsylvania : Including Descriptions of Indians and Pioneer Life from the Time of Earliest Settlement, Sketches of Its Noted Men and Women and Many Professional Men, at FS
Perry County – Native Races – History of Perry County, Pennsylvania : Including Descriptions of Indians and Pioneer Life from the Time of Earliest Settlement, Sketches of Its Noted Men and Women and Many Professional Men, at FS
Philadelphia County – Jewish Records – Early Marriage Papers of Philadelphia County, 1684-1869 [mainly Quaker], at FS
Philadelphia County – Minorities – Chinese in Philadelphia and Other Places in Pennsylvania, at FS
Philadelphia County – Minorities – Chinese in Philadelphia and Other Places in Pennsylvania, at FS
Philadelphia County – Minorities – German Families, at FS
Susquehanna County – Native Races – Court Records – Land and Property – Deed from Indians of the Six Nations to the Susquehannah Company : Naming Susquehannah Company Members from Connecticut, Rhode Island, Pennsylvania, Mass. & New York and the Names and Marks of 18 Chiefs and Schems, at FS
Washington County – Minorities – Negro Register (Washington County, Pennsylvania), 1782-1851, at FS
Washington County – Slavery and Bondage – Negro Register (Washington County, Pennsylvania), 1782-1851, at FS
Pennsylvania Minority Records Online at the city level
Athens Township – Native Races – A History of Old Tioga Point and Early Athens, Pennsylvania, at FS
Broomall – Jewish Records – Congregation Beth El Suburban (Broomall), at FS
Erie – Jewish Records – Cemetery Records, 1865-1920, at FS
Germantown – Genealogy – Various Data Regardin Germantown – Jewish Records, at FS
Lancaster – Jewish Records – Inscriptions on Tombstones in Shaarai Shomayim (Jewish) Graveyard, East Liberty Street, Between Lime and Shippen Streets, at FS
Lancaster – Jewish Records – Jewish Burial Ground, Lancaster City, Pennsylvania, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish History – A Journey to “Jerusalem” : Being a Brief Account of the First Settlement of Jews from Eastern Europe in Philadelphia, at FS
Philadelphia – Minorities – Registers of Signatures of Depositors, 1870-1874, at FS
Philadelphia – Minorities – The German Settlement Society of Philadelphia and Its Colony, Hermann, Missouri, at FS
Philadelphia – Slavery and Bondage – Indentures Made to Girard College, 1847-1853, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Card File of Detainee Immigrants, 1914-1921, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Immigrant Records, 1884-1952, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Jewish Immigrant Aid Societies’ Records of Jewish Arrivals, 1913-1947, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Jewish Petition Cards to Bring Relatives to the United States, 1923-1935, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Jewish Records, 1752-1920, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Jewish Records, 1802-1910, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Joseph Back Papers, 1931-1954, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Landing Verification Cards, 1907-1914, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Marriage Records, 1850-1873, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Naturalization Cards, 1900-1940, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Nursery Case Files, 1904-1950, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Prepaid Steamship Ticket Record, (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania), 1906-1948, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Records, 1884-1934, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Records, 1898-1975, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Register, 1876-1911, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Ticket Purchase Books and Index, 1899-1930, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish Records – Ticket Purchase Books, 1890-1934, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish History – History of the Hungarian Synagogue, Chevra Emunas Israel Obev Sholom, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish History – The History of Rodeph Shalom Congregation Philadelphia, 1802-1926, at FS
Philadelphia – Jewish History – The Jews of Philadelphia : Their History from the Earliest Settlements to the Present Time : a Record of Events and Institutions, and of Leading Members of the Jewish Community in Every Sphere of Activity, at FS
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