by Marc | Dec 1, 2024 | ARC, WAW
The Kuntz & Rauch Families of West Hanover Does prayer work? Well, these two families put it to the test. They found that families that pray together build eternal relationships built on a foundation of strength, comfort, and love, and prayer was the bedrock of...
by Marc | Oct 1, 2024 | ARC, WAW
Elijah Anderson and Catherine Bordner were lifelong residents of what would become Snyder County in Pennsylvania. Their lives spanned the greater part of the nineteenth century and, except for Elijah’s service in the Civil War, they rarely if ever felt the need to...
by Marc | Oct 1, 2024 | ARC, WAW
The Stoddart & Muckle Families of Newbattle Battles! For the peasants of Newbattle, every day was a fight against the domination of insatiable lairds, merciless coal masters, disease, cruel weather, and hunger. Add to this the ever-present wars and religious...
by Marc | Apr 2, 2024 | ARC, WAW
Samuel was the first born of five children of Leonard Peters and Susan Enders of Dauphin County. Both families are of German ancestry. Samuel was followed by brother John, and a sisters Margaret and Barbara. Samuel’s father, Leonard, was born and lived in Dauphin...
by Marc | Apr 2, 2024 | ARC, WAW
Anna Margaret Bittel was a forceful and dynamic pioneer who, against all odds, succeeded in establishing an American family. Teenage Margaret would immigrate with family from Pfungstadt, Hesse, during an oppressive societal and religious time that forced her family to...
by Marc | Mar 10, 2024 | ARC, WAW
By Generation Eight, all APB ancestors were either Methodist or Lutheran, except for the Batdorf and Welkers, a Reformed family. In Generation Nine, there were 15 Lutherans, 6 Lutheran/Reformed, 4 Presbyterian, 3 Reformed, 2 Methodist, and 1 Catholic families. Of the...
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