Catholic Trails West. The Founding Catholic Families of Pennsylvania, Volume I: St. Joseph's Church, Philadelphia (1733); by Edmund Adams and Barbara B. O'Keefe; Paperback; xii + 341 pp; Published: 1988, Reprinted: 2004; ISBN: 9780806312125; Item # CF47D

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.