Introduction
Vitals: The Groscosts of Germany & America
Research/Writing in Progress
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NEW 7/13/17: “Being an Adult Amateur with Stuart Pearce” from Contrabass Conversations (26:01)
NEW 5/18/17: “A Vacation Back to the Future: From Michigan to Iowa”
NEW 5/15/17: “Alexis Pearce: An Airstream Granddaughter”
NEW 4/24/17: “Swiss Anabaptist Genealogical Association (SAGA) 2017 meeting”
NEW 3/11/17: “Obit & Will of James Ross (1811-1885) .PDF”
NEW 3/1/17: “Gold in the Hills: The Alton Krause Family Story” with supplemental character information and additional supporting stories
NEW 2/27/17: “Journal of Amish & Plain Anabaptist Studies” (JAPAS) and “Amish America.com” with online encyclopedia & state guide
NEW 1/12/17: “E-Genealogy 101: Three easy steps to woodshedding the family tree”
NEW 1/3/17: “Introduction: Our Mauer Family” and “Our Mauer Family Tree”
NEW 12/30/16: Ancient family mottos on most family tree pages
NEW 12/21/16: “Introduction: Our Sadorus Family” and “Vitals: William Sadorus, Sr.”
NEW 12/15/16: “Excerpts from Two Old Zimmerman Family Wills”
NEW 7/27/16: “Short Stories from the Gray Family History, Part I: “My First Trip to Florida- A Brief Encounter”
NEW 7/6/16: “Last Will & Testament of Robert P. Gray (1844-1928)”
NEW 6/17/16: “Our Stahl Family Tree” and “Vitals” (Joseph Miller-associated family back to 1700)
NEW 6/15/16: “Merle Gray: Great-grandson of Civil War Teamster, William Gray”
NEW 6/2/16: “Last Will & Testament: George Hoffman (1828-1907 Gray-associated family)”
NEW 5/15/16: “On the Trail of our Early Lee Family”
NEW 5/10/16: “Our Common Amish Roots with Katey Sagal, actress & singer-songwriter”
NEW 4/23/16: “Causes of Death 1906-2015 in Pearce, Gray, & Associated Families and Miller, Krause, & Associated Families”
NEW 4/8/16: “A Journey between two Passages: The ‘Mom’ & ‘Pop’ Krause family from the National Road to the Lincoln Highway”
NEW 4/3/16: “Our Cousin of the Black Horse Squadron: Lemon Grimes”
NEW 3/26/16: “Dr. Annie R. Pearce: 2016 VA Tech Alumni Award Winner for Outreach Excellence”
NEW 3/23/16: “Serving Her Country in the Army Tradition: Cpt. Taylor Pearce”
NEW 3/3/16: “Up to Date with Wiltshire Poet Edward Slow: the tale of the Moonrakers via YouTube”
NEW 2/27/16: “Our Grays in the Civil War Book, UNDER THE RED PATCH”
NEW 2/19/16: “A Civil War Journal: Robert Gray, 6th Reg. PA Volunteers”
NEW 2/15/16: “Letter from Robert Gray: Lynn Haven, FL, to home (1913)”
NEW 2/9/16: “Descendants of William Sylvester (1816-1879) & Elizabeth Leslie Gray (1818-1895)
NEW 1/20/16: “Four Postcards from a Sanitarium (1911)”
New 1/15/16: “Voices from Across the Continent: Two Gray Family Letters of 1908”
NEW 10/3/15: Look for links, repostings, & 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 (under Gray family), CHRISTIAN MILLER (see Hannes “Indian John” Miller), and LEE (see Krause-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.)