The Trail Through Penns Woods, Records of Colonial Pennsylvania with Sandy Rumble
Date: July 25, 2023 Time: 06:30 PM to 08:15 PM Location: Zoom

The Trail Through Penns Woods, Records of Colonial Pennsylvania with Sandy Rumble

 
Researching in Colonial Pennsylvania can be a challenge for genealogists unfamiliar with the diverse populations that came together to form early Pennsylvania. Whether your ancestors just passed through, stayed for a generation, or never left, understanding the goals of William Penn for his colony is critical to finding your ancestors. Penn wanted "his colony" to be a place where people of diverse backgrounds and religions could live together peacefully, without persecution and the heavy interfering hand of government. Penn's noble ideas led to scattered record keeping, and conflicts in land grants from the British Kings led to competing land claims from neighboring colonies. However, this successful social experiment led to Philadelphia becoming the home of the Continental Congress, gifting religious tolerance, freedom of speech, and conscientious objector status to the new Republic.
 
 
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