by Marc | Jun 4, 2021 | ARC, WAW
The Heart & Backbone of Our Nation Palatine Barbara Peters married Daniel Gutman at age seventeen and gave birth to two sons in quick succession. Her hometown of Ludwigshafen was a tumultuous place, with wars, famine, and religious persecution for Lutherans,...
by Marc | May 2, 2021 | CPS, WAW
Colonial Women, The Heart & Backbone of Our Nation Catherine Sterf Reed If there is any power in poverty, it’s the push for a better life. Catherine Sterf Reith embodied that power. Born in 1661 in Baalborn, Palatine, she married a simple Mennonite farmer George...
by Marc | May 2, 2021 | ARC
There are literally millions of living people who can trace their ancestry to the pioneers in this book. It surprises many to recognize how many descendants a couple just eight generations ago have, and surprises ever more to understand the genetic isopoint and , the...
by Marc | Apr 3, 2021 | ARC, WAW
American Pioneer Chronicles: Eleanor Justice Culin Intrepid Eleanor Justice Culin was in many ways more similar to modern women than to her contemporaries in the eighteenth century. With a surname like Justice, Eleanor may have been predestined to be an independent...
by Marc | Feb 3, 2021 | ARC, WAW
February of 1860 was cold in Jefferson County, Georgia, especially in the slave quarters where fires were used only on the coldest nights. It was not a particularly good place or time to be born, but here he was anyway, Peter Thompson—first and only child of his...
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