Source Information

Ancestry.com. Catholic Trails West. The Founding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania [database on-line]. Provo, UT, USA: Ancestry.com Operations Inc, 2006.
Original data: Adams, Edmund. Catholic Trails West. The Founding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania. Baltimore, MD, USA: Genealogical Publishing Co., 2004.

About Catholic Trails West. The Founding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania

Long out of print, this book identifies the families who settled the largest of the six pioneer Catholic parishes of Pennsylvania, that of St. Joseph's, which extended from Philadelphia up and down the Delaware, west into Berks County, north into New York, and east throughout New Jersey. Herein the researcher will find data on about 3,000 families and 12,000 family members.