From their beginnings as colonial neighbors to the more than 100 years in which they were the two most populous states, New York and Pennsylvania have shared a great interchange of people over time. Join James Beidler as he discusses the history of those migrations and the different records you need to trace families between the two states.
About the Presenter
James M. Beidler, known internationally as one of the top people in the field of German genealogy, has authored four commercially published books, including three on German family history. He has been executive director of Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania on two occasions and was a reports editor for the globe-spanning research-for-hire firm Legacy Tree Genealogists for three years. Mr. Beidler also writes “Roots & Branches,” a weekly newspaper column and blog (at www.roots-branches.com), is a German Life magazine columnist, and is editor emeritus of Der Kurier, the quarterly journal of the Mid-Atlantic Germanic Society.