After the Civil War (1860-1865), many new areas of the country were opened up for settlement. John George Snyder and his wife, Sarah Stambaugh, were among the families that moved West, settling in Callaway County, Missouri, where they prospered. Over the passage of time, the ties to relatives back in Pennsylvania became blurred and often forgotten. Such was the case with the ancestors of John George Snyder. The only things left to work with in trying to extend the Snyder line backwards in time were John George's Bible, given to soldiers during the Civil War, and a handful of family photos....

The Barefoot-Withrow Families history and genealogy book was originally published in 1966 by Vivian and Anne Daugherty. Vivian and Anne, along with their sisters Susan, Helen, Lucille, and Antoinette, worked on the family history beginning in the mid-1950s and continued their efforts for at least a decade. They interviewed the older members of the family, tracked down 'lost' cousins and ferreted out family information from old letters, original documents and blurry copies. To validate their research, they notarized statements made by their mother and aunts and uncles. The sisters did not have...

Antoinette D. Huff wrote "The Never Failing Light" and the other five stories in the 1950s. They are based on the cherished stories of the Biblical Nativity, stories that clearly had a strong influence on their author. While they are all based on the theme of the Nativity, they are seen from different viewpoints and angles. These stories were meant as inspirational messages and could be given as lectures to a group, or simply as stories to be read by individuals. No matter how the stories were communicated, the listener or reader would go away with a renewal of their faith and ideals. It is...

In describing this brief history of the Deberry-Navarro family, Susan Daugherty Navarro wrote: "Four generations of a family with the surname Navarro have been aware that they had no relatives by the same name, but at the same time they had little knowledge of exactly how and when the name originated or was assumed. Only one man who actually took part in the name-changing incident survived until the twentieth century and he never told the story so far as the present generation can discover. What follows is a description of how part of a legend was clarified and documented. No attempt is made...

The surname "Gingerich" has been established as being Swiss in origin. Yost was one of the early settlers of that name in Pennsylvania. We know that in 1747, Yost bought land in what is now Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Anna Huber, had at least eight children. The first volume of "The Gingerich-Gingrich Families" was about Yost and his oldest son, John. This second volume attempts to document the families and extended families of Yost's remaining seven children: Anna, Mary, Jacob, Peter, Christian, Michael, and Barbara. Due to space and time considerations, the extended...

George Hardin (1756-1854) was a Revolutionary soldier. He was not famous, nor did he perform outstanding deeds. He was a man of his time, and he responded to the call of the American patriots to fight the British. He was a hatter by trade and he worked and raised a family of eight known children. Circa 1830, he left Virginia and moved to Missouri with his wife and children. One son stayed behind in Virginia. He died at the ripe old age of 98, a very respectable age for the time period.

George Hardin (1756-1854) was a Revolutionary soldier. He was not famous, nor did he perform outstanding deeds. He was a man of his time, and he responded to the call of the American patriots to fight the British. He was a hatter by trade and he worked and raised a family of eight known children. Circa 1830, he left Virginia and moved to Missouri with his wife and children. One son stayed behind in Virginia. He died at the ripe old age of 98, a very respectable age for the time period.

Philip May Gingrich was born in 1824 in Juniata County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ann Lukens in 1849 and they moved to neighboring Perry County, Pennyslvania. After Mary Ann's death in May of 1863, Philip married Elizabeth Jane Orwan in December of 1863. Philip moved his family to Callaway County, Missouri after the Civil War, probably with other families from the Juniata-Perry Counties area of Pennsylvania. Philip had a total of ten children. Most of the chiildren kept on West, with many of them settling in the Pacific Northwest. Some of the names affiliated with the Philip Gingrich...