Subtitled "From Joseph Schantz, Founder of Johnstown, Pennsylvania, to the Descendants of Ira Samuel Johns and Elizabeth Rickert Johns," the story of the Schantz/Johns family in America is a story of courage, initiative, and hard work, with plenty of faithfulness and human failure along the way. Frequent surnames: Johns, Kauffman, Miller, Stutzman, Wyse, Yoder. (160pp. illus. index. Author, 2008.)