(Last updated 3/24/22)
*Research questions: Who were Susannah’s ancestors? Where did they come from. Is she related to the other (Amish) Berkey’s?
*Newly discovered resources: Google ‘Susannah Berkey Somerst PA”
*Articles begun: NONE
*Speculation: ?
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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 & Son
NEW 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
