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This is Volume I of "The American History of a POTTER Family" which is the first of ten volumes recording the genealogy and history of my family. This volume is "Chapter 1: *ANTHONY POTTER (ca. 1628 - 1690) Puritan, the First American, and Ipswich Cultivator of Fruit" which covers the years ca. 1285, the earliest birth date of one of my ancestors that has been found, to 1690, the year my 7X Great Grandfather, *ANTHONY POTTER (ca. 1628 - 1690), died in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Volume I is the product of many years of research and details much of early American history about the Puritan Migration (1630 - 1640) from England to the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the settlement of Ipswich, Massa ...

From riding to school in a hack drawn by two horses to scrounging for the good potatoes in a sack of discarded rotten produce in the middle of the Great Depression, Thelma Decker VanDine has lived the stories the rest of us can only read in history textbooks. Her recollections, along with those of her late husband Dean VanDine and her late sister Wilma Decker Rice, make the events of the last 100 years of history pop off the page and come alive in our imaginations.

This genealogical booklet is a handy guide into the ancestry of Rose Marie Barry. It tracks the origins of the Barry and Larkin families from their documented European roots, through their settlement in southeastern Nebraska. The guide includes detailed biographical sketches of Rose’s direct known ancestors, along with available photographs, documents, autographs, obituaries, and grave site information and photographs. The collection is a valuable family resource of carefully researched information that provides an engaging personal glimpse into the lives of the Barry ancestors.

In the summer of 2017, Christopher Eller began an oral history project with his mother, Candyce Eller. What follows is a record of those conversations, which aim to act as a reference for future generations and show the changes in our family dynamic from the early 20th century to the present. The emphasis of these exchanges is on the events and emotions of those involved, presented in a format that is readable yet engaging, bringing the people of our family’s past to life. Stories are explored from Candyce’s perspective, as she is the central force and “rock” of our family. Much of our family history is documented through photographs, many of which are contained herein to help tell th ...

This is a Family genealogy book covering four ancestral generations of the author, Robert Fisher. It contains information on the following family lines: Black, Blackwell, Brasher, Carmichael, Crook, Fisher, Kimbel, Kirby, Hawkins, Mathis, McCrary, Morphe, Reynolds, Sherrill, and Weier. Source information is documented and provided throughout the text.

This is a brief history (24 pages) of the village of Brogueville or Brogue Pennsylvania. It centers around two families who lived in the village. The Frederick Uffelman family settled here in the mid 1800s. Beginning in the 1940s, Max Pickel and his family made their home in the village. While researching the origins of the Pickel homestead which sat next to the General Store, a brief story of the people that that lived there emerged.