Vitals: Our Gilgan & Rosina Muller Moser/Musser Families
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Color codes by Main Families –
Pearce (green)
Gray (red)
Miller (gold)
Krause (blue) or
General (gray)New 2/17/25: Cancer at Conemaugh: A Medical Memoir Addendum #2
NEW 2/16/25: An Interesting Family Connection to the Pow-wow
NEW 2/10/25; A Visit to the Enon Valley, Home of our Marshall Ancestors and Amish
NEW 2/6/25: Hill Family History Stories by Grace Hill TeSelle
NEW 2/5/25: Cousins’ Corner: Grace Hill TeSelle Obituary
NEW 3/1/24: Cancer at Conemaugh: Two Medical Memoir Addenda
NEW 2/11/24: Upon This Rock: Pt. IV – Modern Lit & Drama Pearces
NEW 2/9/24: Happy Birthday Brother Butch, the Bridge Builder
NEW 1/10/24: Renee Fleming – Are we Related?
NEW 12/23/23: Bark in a Barrel – Surviving the Winter
NEW 8/29/23: The Story of Clemens Krauss (1893-1954)
DRAFT ONGOING BEGINNING 1/1/22: Every Breath a Gift: a Memoir by Larry Pearce
NEW 12/9/21: Your Foot Shape & Your Genealogy from AncestralFindings.com
NEW 10/29/21: Ten Short Meditations on our Faith & Nature
NEW 5/3/21: Annie Pearce: Outstanding VA Tech Graduate Faculty Mentor & IDR Inductee 2021
NEW 5/1/21: Getting Kids Into Genealogy from AncestralFindings.com
NEW 4/21/21: What a Somerset County, PA, Amish Meetinghouse Looks Like
NEW 4/19/21: Getting to Know RootsTech, FamilySearch, & Other Family History Sites
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 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 3/6/21: 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
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 Pearces & 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 & SonNEW 10/3/15: Look for links, re-postings, & summaries of articles fromTHE 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
NEW ONGOING: “Vitals” for each couple including ancestors, descendants, locations, grave GPS & more (click on first names in family trees)
IDEA: If you’re from one of our families, why not “save” that family tree file, then replace my name and descendants with yours, then print. and distribute! (I hope you’ll share this with my readers and me.)