Genealogy Books

DNA analysis was used to study the possible chromosomal connections between various Beiler-Beyeler-Boiler-Byler families. This study demonstrated that by combining the older techniques of genealogical research with the new scientific...

Five chapters focus on the Branner, Harpine, Garber, Miller, and Long families, with much of their early history in Va. The first generation of Longs listed are John Long (1761-1838)...

The book begins with the plight of the persecuted Oberholtzers of the Anabaptist faith in Switzerland and follows their eventual immigration to Pennsylvania. Research provides detail for six successive generations...

"Farmer" John Landis (1785-1867) married Eve Anna Groff (1783-1877) had ten children and became one of the most highly-respected and appreciated men in East Lampeter Township and Lancaster County, Pa....

The bulk of this book records and deals with facts, memories, and recollections from the 7th-generation—the 11 children of Peter Benjamin and his wife Sarah Phoen Shoemaker. During the 1880s...

This book explores the 19th-century community and family of the Umble brothers in Salisbury Township. John Umble Jr. grew up in an Amish home north of the village of Gap,...

After a brief "European preface," the book identifies Ulrich's descendants, locates their lands in the Northkills, Somerset Co., Pa., and Tuscarawas Co., Ohio, Amish communities to ca1850. It names scores...

This is not just a genealogy book of facts and dates; it's also a history of an Amish woman who saw significant changes, not only among the Amish, but in...

Traces the family origins of the Theiss/Deiss/Tice/Dice family back to 1600 in Germany, their immigration to America in 1730, and the descendants of eight children to the present day. The...

This book covers many descendants of Hans and Madalena Reeser; related families of Salisbury; European research; and other early American Reeser immigrants. From Hans and his wife Madalena, two branches...

Abraham Herr, the first great-great-grandson of Hans Herr of Lancaster County, Pa., was the first descendant to move to Annville, Lebanon Co., Pa. He was the owner of the gristmill...

This book traces the descendants of Hans David Merkey through his son John Merkey who married Hannah Heckman. Hans David settled in Bethel Twp., Berks Co., after arriving in Philadelphia...

This long overdue reprint contains new information on the Nolt's origins in Europe and America as well as some updated data on the 3,700+ Nolt descendants covered in this second...

This history of an early farm family starts with the arrival in America of Samuel's father, Theobald Gross, and is developed through three major branches and one secondary branch, for...

Subtitled "The Life and Times of Christian Iutzi (1788-1857), 1832 Immigrant to Butler County, Ohio, in His Own Words," is a firsthand account of nineteenth-century Amish Mennonite immigration. His journals...