by Marc | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Jacob Warner Oberlander was born to a German farming family in 1819, in Chanceford, York County, Pennsylvania. He was the sixth of twelve children born to Michael Baugher Oberlander and Maria Catherine Warner. He was named for his paternal grandfather, Jacob...
by Marc | Aug 30, 2024 | Uncategorized
Greedy lairds. Religious schisms. Wars and clan battles. Biting winters, famine, disease, and hazardous mining conditions. These were the day-to-day realities that peasants living in the Newbattle parish experienced, and ones that the Russell and Moffat ancestors...
by Marc | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Anna Catharina was a European woman who became a legend, mostly of her own imagination. Presumably born to a Lutheran peasant family in Palatinate, near Alsace, she would marry Jacque Sellaire, and bear six children, including ancestor Henry. Due to religious and...
by Marc | Aug 9, 2024 | Uncategorized
Maria was one of the fiercest and determined women of colonial history. Born and married in France, she and her husband Daniel Fierre, would have six children, including ancestor Catherine who was born in 1679. As Huguenot, the Edict of Fountainebleau who cause Marie...
by Marc | Jun 17, 2024 | Uncategorized
Michael Layman was born in Marietta, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, on October 10, 1818. He was the oldest of eight children born to Michael Layman and Sarah Klein. His father was born in Centre County, and his mother in Lancaster County, both of German heritage....
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