Introduction
Vitals: The Lehmers of Germany & PA
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General (black or darker blue)ONGOING 1/1/22: Every Breath a Gift: a Memoir by Larry Pearce – INTRODUCTION & TABLE OF CONTENTS (regular installments celebrating the 20th E-Gen Anniversary)
NEW 1/8/22: Chpt.1 – PRELUDE
NEW 1/15/22: INTERLUDE to Chpt.2A – CHILDHOOD & YOUTH INTO ADULTHOOD: Beginnings in Cooperstown
NEW 1/22/22: Chpt.2B – Move to Moon Township
NEW 1/29/22: Chpt.2C – Home in Indiana
NEW 2/5/22: Chpt.2D – We are Penn State
NEW 2/12/22: INTERLUDE to Chpt. 3A – a HALF-CENTURY OF MARRIAGE: Engagement, Wedding, & Honeymoon
NEW 2/19/22: Chpt.3B – Early Marriage Months in Pine Grove Mills
NEW 3/26/22: Chpt.3C – Getting Established in Jerome
NEW 4/2/22: Chpt.3Di – Forward to Forwardstown
NEW 4/9/22: Chpt.3Dii – New Opportunities
NEW 4/17/22: Chpt.3Diii – Death & New Life
NEW 4/22/22: Chpt.3Div – Back on Our Own Again
NEW 4/29/22: Chpt.3Dv – Retirement so Far
NEW 5/6/22: INTERLUDE to
NEW 5/14/22: Chpt.4A – MY LIFE’S WORK: Odd Jobs to Investment Rep
NEW 5/19/22: Chpt.4B – MY LIFE’S WORK: Broadcasting
NEW 5/27/22: Chpt.4C – MY LIFE’S WORK: Teaching
NEW 6/2/22: INTERLUDE to Chpt.5A & B – MY MISSIONS & MINISTRIES
NEW 6/11/22: INTERLUDE to
NEW 6/18/22: Chpt.6A – MORE RETIREMENT ACTIVITIES: Vacation TravelsNEW 6/25/22: Chpt.6B – MORE RETIREMENT ACTIVITIES: Writing Family History
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 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 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
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.)