PGM in a Digital World

PGM IN THE DIGITAL WORLD T imes change, and we change with them.” – Lothair (795-855). And so, The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine is making the leap into the digital world in the hands of an expanded Publications Committee. This issue is the first of four quarterly digital issues online at www.genpa.com. Members who prefer the printed issues will be pleased to learn that we will continue to publish them twice a year and that the same basic content will appear online and in print. The digital issues, however, will be supplemented with online-only content, such as the original pages from the Bishop-Henshall bible transcribed in this issue. An annual index will appear at the end of the year, in both digital and print issues. The decision to publish digital issues allows the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania to offer a discounted membership of $45 a year to those who prefer the digital format. We continue to offer the regular membership at $60 for those who also prefer to get the printed issues. As in previous issues of PGM, we continue to offer content that has never been published online. In this first digital issue, we include a continuation of the earliest baptisms of the African Episcopal Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, beginning in 1792, which otherwise are found only in the church’s archives. The Cash-Leacock bible records offer a look at two early Philadelphia families (one with a link to Benjamin Franklin). The Nursery at Nazareth is another previously hidden gem. Unlike an orphanage, the nursery cared for children while their parents worked – an early day care, courtesy of the Moravians. And the Bishop-Henshall bible records come from the author’s family collection and trace that very basic story of immigration from England in the 1830s, followed by marriages, births, and deaths recorded over several generations. As each new quarterly issue of PGM is published online, you’ll get an email notifying you. To view the new issue, go to www.genpa.org and click Publications, then Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine. You’ll see the table of contents, and once you have logged in, you’ll be able to access the full articles and online-only resources. We look forward to hearing from you about this new venture as well as your reactions to the articles in this issue. --The Publications Committee 2 Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine Vol. 49 (2014)