This database lists approximately 476,000 individuals who either resided
in or were born in Southeastern Pennsylvania before 1800. This comprehensive
index identifies fathers, mothers and children in a region that is genealogically
significant for Americans with eighteenth-century European or United States
ancestry. These records, found in 213 church, meeting, and pastoral records
and compiled by John T. Humphrey, were originally published in a thirteen-volume
set entitled Pennsylvania Births.