From early childhood on, the author listened while her father told stories about his forefathers. One day she decided to put the stories into written form. First she did considerable research to verify the facts, then she translated the information from German and Pennsylvania Dutch into English. Her finished product is a history of the Amish and the Swartzentruber family in Somerset Co., Pa. (80pp. color illus. 2007 reprint of 1980 ed.)