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PENNSYLVANIA RECORDS ONLINE

The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission recently announced the placement of over 200,000 Revolutionary War, Spanish American and World War I digital records on ARIAS, Pennsylvania's Archives Records Information Access System. ARIAS is available on PHMC's Internet website at http://www.phmc.state.pa.us .

Currently online is the Revolutionary War Military Abstract Card File, the World War I Service Medal Application Card File and the Spanish American War Veterans' Card File of United States Volunteers. In the next phase of extractions PHMC plans to upload over 300,000 additional digital images of Pennsylvania's Civil War Veterans Card File and the Mexican War Campaign Veteran's Card File.

The Revolutionary War Card File is arranged alphabetically by
the surname of each soldier and contains information on service in the Pennsylvania Militia, Pennsylvania Line, and the Navy. It also includes the name and rank of soldier whether he was on active or inactive duty, his county of residence, military unit, officers and more.

ARIAS is designed to facilitate free citizen access to archival records created by all branches and levels of Pennsylvania State Government. Eventually, millions of digitized records, ranging from 19th-century county birth, death and marriage dockets to collections of photographs illustrating every aspect of the Pennsylvania experience, will be added.

Also on the PHMC Homepage is a searchable database to all historical markers in the State of Pennsylvania. Each marker in the state is searchable by their county of location, the title of the marker, by keywords or by category. Information for each historical marker includes the marker title, location, text and other pertinent information such as the date it was posted.

NE HOUSTON SENIORS FORM GENEALOGY CLUB

A new genealogical club for seniors age 55 and up is being formed on the Northeast side of town. The first meeting will be held on Thursday July 19 from 9 A.M. to 11 P.M. at the Northeast Harris County Community Center located at 10918 1/2 Bentley.
For more information contact Aryle-Jeanne Reed at 281-442-4354
or the Northeast Harris County Community Center at 281-442-7950.

CEMETERY AND TOMBSTONE STUDIES

Learn about cemeteries, tombstone artwork and epitaphs in a two session class taught by Paula Perkins Parke. Cemetery Searching & Answers from the Tombstone is a two part class offered by Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church. The first session will be held from 2:30 P.M. to 5:30 P.M. Monday July 30 at the MDPC, 11612 Memorial Drive. The concluding session will be held in a local cemetery the following weekend.

For more information about this class and to register, contact MDPC Adult Education at 713-953-2550 Ext. 194 or 301.

FAMILY TREE MAKER SOFTWARE CLASS

Paula Perkins Parke will teach an Organizing Your Family Research With Family Tree Maker Software class from 6:30 to 9:30 P.M. Tuesday July 31. This one-time class will be held at Leisure Learning's 2990 Richmond Avenue campus.

Through demonstrations, students will learn step by step instructions to organize and document family information and sources. For more information and to register, contact Leisure Learning at 713-529-4414.

AMERICAN LAND RECORDS CLASS

One of the most important methods of locating ancestors is through the land they owned. Mic Barnette will offer a two hour course on tracing ancestors through land records, American Land Records for Historians and Genealogists.

The course will describe the land granting process and explain how property was transferred from the King or government to one person and from that person to another. The course will explain the land distribution systems prevalent in the colonial lands of the original colonies, Georgia, Texas and the Federal public land systems in the states west of the Appalachian Mountains.

This one time class will be held from 7 P.M. to 9 P.M. Thursday, November 16 at Leisure Learning's 2990 Richmond Campus. For more information and to enroll, contact Leisure Learning at 713-529-4414.

NEWS FROM THE BOOK SHELF

Two long out of print books about Orangeburg, South Carolina have recently been reprinted. The first is The History of Orangeburg County, South Carolina From Its First Settlement to the Close of the Revolutionary War by A.S. Salley. It is available for $52, postpaid, from the Publisher, Southern Historical Press, P.O.Box 1267, Greenville, SC 29602-1267.

The second book, Orangeburgh District, South Carolina Returns in Partition from the Court of Equity 1824-1837 is available for $23, postpaid, from the author, Brent Holcomb at P.O.Box 21766, Columbia, SC 29221.
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