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NEW 4/15/21: Do You Have Irish Genealogy?
NEW 4/14/21: Cousins’ Corner: Brodieheg, the Blogger
NEW 4/2/21: Writing Your Own Family Narrative: A Short Bibliography
NEW 4/1/21: Memories of Uncle Carl Raymond Hill & Family
NEW 3/31/21: A Family History Book Review
NEW 3/30/21: Family Names in Churchhill’s Historical Anthology
NEW 3/11/21: The Life of Dowling Norris (1823-1858)
NEW 3/10/21: Life Stories from the Hill Family: Mayme Crummy & Myra Miller
NEW 3/6/21: Deaths in the Charles Krause Family – 2021
NEW 3/5/21: The Pearces of Wiltshire: The Way They Talked
NEW & REVISED 2/25/21: WWII Letters from Home: Dick & Hilda Miller & Family (in 3 parts)
NEW 2/21/21: How Closely Related are the English and the Irish?
NEW 2/20/21: The Ten Oldest Amish Settlements, by Erik Wesner
NEW 2/4/21: Before, During, & After the World Wars: Moon-Hill Family Letters & Cards, Parts I , II, III, IV, & V
REVISED 1/31/21: Five Short Moon-Davis Family Letters from the 1920s
REVISED 1/30/21: From Tragedy to Triumph: The Hazel (Hill) & Alex Nicely Family Story
NEW 1/27/21: Reunions of the Joseph & Alice (Moon) Families: 1960-1968
NEW 1/26/21: Deaths in the Charles Krause Family – 2020
NEW 1/23/21: Our Pearce Families Come to America: A Four-Centuries Celebration, 1620-2021
NEW 1/18/21: The Life & Times of Ralph & Rachel Krause
NEW 1/15/21: Biking into History on the Great Allegheny Passage
NEW 1/13/21: The 4 Capt. John Dixon Hill & Sons’ Farms of Butler & Allegheny Counties, PA
REVISED 1/12/21: Our Nonconformist Pearceses & The Rev. John Wesley
NEW 12/25/20: Susan & Larry Pearce Celebrate 50 Years Together
REVISED 12/7/20 (with personal note from Dr. Cyril Wecht):Our Moon Family Morticians: Joseph Daniel & Son
NEW 10/26/20: Three Generations of Gray Family Handiworks
NEW 9/29/20: Krause Electric & Refrigeration Changes Hands
NEW 9/25/20: Scottish Naming Practices
NEW 9/4/20: 21 Questions to Ask Your Parents (while they’re still here)
NEW 9/3/20: Ancestral Math
NEW 9/2/20: Putting Flesh on Bones: “The Story Tellers”
NEW 9/1/20: Cousin Connection: Explaining the Various Levels
NEW 6/22/20: The Inspiration of Scripture in Personal Genealogy
NEW 6/17/20: “Tree of Life” musical theme and “Magnificent Trees” visual theme links for Homepage
NEW 6/7/20: Flying High: Pearce, Gray, & Associated Families’ Connections to Aviation
NEW 5/22/20: Preachers Among the Pearces & Associated Families
NEW 5/11/20: Quakers Meet to Help 1757 Hochstetler Massacre victims
NEW 5/9/20: Hill Family Trees from John Dixon Hill (b.1824) & Joseph Marshall Hill (b.1858) to Today
NEW 4/22/20: The Stories of 20 Common Amish Names, Pt. 1 , Pt. 2, Pt. 3, & Pt. 4 by Erik Wesner
NEW 4/15/20: Simon Lee’s WW I Letter from France, 1918
NEW 3/25/20: How to Use Foreign Language Genealogy Sources from AncestralFindings.com
NEW 3/21/20: A 1905 Hill-Pearce Father-to-Daughter Letter
NEW 3/20/20: Can you Name any of these Western PA Hills?
NEW 3/9/20: Romantic Historical Fiction about our Casselman Valley Amish
NEW 3/5/20: Cousins’ Corner: Jim Stark – A Man for all Seasons & Jim’s 97th Birthday Parade
NEW 2/5/20: 10 Questions & Answers on the Amish, by Erik Wesner
NEW 2/4/20: An Author’s First Wedding: Tom Thumb Style
NEW 2/3/20: “Giving Back More Than we Got”: Paul & Cynthia Pearce’s Legacy
NEW 1/23/20: Stuart Pearce: Water Anyone?
NEW 1/22/20: Genealogy: Humor, Funny Quotes, and Memes
NEW 1/19/20: A Few YouTube Videos Appropriate to our Family History
NEW 1/17/20: Why did the Scots wear kilts?
NEW 1/15/20: Translating Charles “Pop” Krause’s 1884 Baptismal Certificate from German
NEW 1/13/20: The Questions of Anna Lee & Charles Krause’s Confirmation Certificates
NEW 1/11/20: In Memorium: Daniel Lloyd Miller (1946-2020)
NEW 1/8/20: Leesburg, PA’s Exemplary Citizens: The Obits of GGgreat-uncle Robert Barber Hill & GGgreat-aunt Mary Ann (Hill) Thorn
NEW 1/1/20: Google like a German: A Genealogy Workshop
NEW 10/3/15: Look for links, re-postings, & summaries of articles from THE HISTORIAN, THE LAUREL MESSENGER, THE CASSELMAN CHRONICLE, GARRETT CO, MD, MUSEUMS, and MENNONITE FAMILY HISTORY
What are my favorite Original Family Narratives? PEARCE-AUSTEN, LESLIE, “INDIAN JOHN” MILLER, and “TOMMY” LEE