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Your Pennsylvania Ancestor Belonged to a Community: Finding the Records for the 250th.

Most talks on colonial Pennsylvania research start with record types — land warrants, tax lists, church registers. This one starts with the people. William Penn’s Holy Experiment attracted dozens of distinct ethnic and religious communities to colonial Pennsylvania, each keeping its own records in its own language and system. You can’t find your ancestor if you don’t know which community they belonged to. This session introduces the community-based approach to Pennsylvania research and shows you how to read the record trail each community left behind. If you have a Pennsylvania ancestor who was here for the Revolution, this is where their story begins.

• Speaker will be live at the Tredyffrin Public Library and broadcast on Zoom.
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Denyse Allen is the author of three Pennsylvania genealogy research guides, including Colonial Pennsylvania Genealogy Research (2026). She founded PA Ancestors in 2019 and has researched seven generations of her own Pennsylvania ancestors across 14 counties. She hosts the Your Pennsylvania Ancestors podcast and speaks regularly at RootsTech and genealogy societies nationwide.