Scope and Content Disorganized and fragmentary manuscript writings concerning the Catholic Church in western Pennsylvania which were evidently later incorporated into Lambing's A History of the Catholic Church in the Dioceses of Pittsburgh and Allegheny (1880).

Scope and Content Miscellaneous original and transcribed records of various Catholic parishes, orphanages, schools, and cemeteries in Illinois (4 churches and institutions), Indiana (7), Kentucky (more than 50), Michigan (5), Missouri (2), Pennsylvania (1), and Wisconsin (1). There are also records of one Jewish Synagogue (Temple Beth-El, South Bend, Indiana). Baptismal, confirmation, marriage, and death registers; gravestone inscriptions; membership lists; pew rent account books; censuses;...