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...
by Marc | Dec 29, 2023 | ARC, WAW
In a sense, Peter Batdorf and his wife, Elizabeth Welker, were war babies. She was born on November 23 in 1812, four months after America declared war on Great Britain beginning the War of 1812. He was born January 20, 1814, eleven months before the treaty was signed...
by Marc | Dec 29, 2023 | ARC, WAW
Who were the good and bad guys in medieval Europe? Course, depends on which side you’re on. Well, let’s be on the side of humanity— people, family, and community. Then, it’s safe to say, that medieval corruption was spearheaded by the Nobles and the feudal lords, the...
by Marc | Sep 5, 2023 | ARC
Many notable folks are part of the Chronies ancestry. The past with even links to three fascinating maybe even considered monstrous folks. Lucas Raus was born in 1723 in Marienburg, now Feldioara, Romania, south of Transylvanian Castle belonging to Dracula. Peter...
by Marc | Sep 5, 2023 | ARC, WAW
The remote village of Brodbecks was the birthplace of Judith Perigal and her future husband George Werner. Both families had left the war-torn, religiously oppressed Baden region, migrating through Philadelphia to York county to pursue opportunity. The frontier had...
by Marc | Sep 5, 2023 | ARC, WAW
Life was hard in the anthracite coal fields of eastern Pennsylvania following the Panic of 1837. Layoffs, wage cuts, and persistently high unemployment afflicted the nation, dooming President van Buren’s re-election campaign. John Updegrove, a laborer from Berks...
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