Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas

Genealogical Encyclopedia of the Colonial Americas
Author: Christina K. Schaefer
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 846
Release: 1998
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780806315768

Covers the period of colonial history from the beginning of European colonization in the Western Hemisphere up to the time of the American Revolution.

Pennsylvania German Church Records of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Etc

Pennsylvania German Church Records of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Etc
Author: Pennsylvania-German Society
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 708
Release: 2009-05
Genre: Pennsylvania
ISBN: 0806310197

This is the second volume of Pennsylvania German Church Records, a three-volume series which gives the genealogist access to all of the church records ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society .

Pennsylvania German Ancestors

Pennsylvania German Ancestors
Author: Anne Frysinger Shifflet
Publisher:
Total Pages: 586
Release: 1999
Genre: Berks County (Pa.)
ISBN:

Chiefly, a record of ancestors and descendants of Hiram James Frysinger and Irene Keller Royer. Hiram was born on April 11, 1908 as the first child of George M. Frysinger (1885-1949) and Clara Belle Schaffner (1888-1975). While in college, he met Irene Royer who was born on February 6, 1909. She was the daughter of Clayton H. Royer (1881-1939) and Susan M. Keller (1880-1974). Hiram and Irene had five children. Both were active in the community and in their Church of the Brethren. Irene died on March 20, 1971. Hiram married second Miriam Frantz Wenger on September 18, 1971. Miriam died on January 14, 1992. Hiram died August 20, 1997. Both Hiram and Irene were buried in the Church of the Brethren Cemetery, Hanoverdale, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.

A Biographical History of York County, Pennsylvania

A Biographical History of York County, Pennsylvania
Author: John Gibson
Publisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
Total Pages: 224
Release: 1975
Genre: York County
ISBN: 0806306750

This work embraces about 1,200 sketches of 19th-century York Countians. Most sketches include a variety of genealogical and biographical data.

A Genealogy and History of the Kauffman-Coffman Families of North America, 1584 to 1937

A Genealogy and History of the Kauffman-Coffman Families of North America, 1584 to 1937
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 822
Release: 1940
Genre:
ISBN:

Andrew (Andreas) Kauffman (d.1743) migrated from Switzerland to the Palatinate of Germany, and then immigrated via Rotterdam to Philadelphia in 1717. He married twice and settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere. Includes " ... miscellaneous lines of Kauffmans scattered throughout the country ... "

Descendants of My Great-grandparents

Descendants of My Great-grandparents
Author: Laura Theresa Willhide Johnston
Publisher:
Total Pages: 484
Release: 1924
Genre: Pennsylvania
ISBN:

Peter Scheibly/Shively (1742-1823), according to family tradition, was born in Switzerland, and immigrated to Pennsylvania before the Revolutionary War. He served with the Northampton County Miltia during the Revolutionary War. He married twice and was the father of eighteen children, born 1772-1805. The family moved from Berks County, Pennsylvania, to Tyrone Township, Cumberland County, now Perry County, Pennsylvania, in 1789. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Descendants spelled their surname Scheibly, Shively, Sheibley, and other variant spellings.