Elizabeth Blymire Reiman

The Dutchy of Wurttemberg was the center of numerous struggles in the early eighteenth century for Anna Elizabeth Bleymeier and her family. The area was under the oppression of the Holy Roman Empire while fending off constant French attacks and being the battleground...

Andrew G. Hensel  & A. Catherine Workman

Andrew Guise Hensel was born on February 18, 1831, at home in New Bloomfield, Perry County, Pennsylvania, eleven years after the fledgling County was formed. There were sparsely 15,000 county inhabitants at the time. However, New Bloomfield is in the central...

Sarah Burr Cable

American Pioneer Chronicles: Colonial Women: the heart, sweat, soul—the foundation of our Nation Persecuted families tended to marry young and Sarah Burr may have set her cap on John Cable while still aboard the Arbella, flagship of the Winthrop Fleet. She was only a...

400th Anniversary

The 400th Anniversary of the first immigrants arriving in the Colonies is quickly approaching. In 1624, Guillaume Vigne, his wife Adrienne Cuvellier, and their children—including the direct-line daughter Marie—endured a dangerous, months-long, food-depleted and...

Michael Goodman & M. Magdalena Brown

On a hot summer day, near the steaming banks of the Susquehanna River, Michael Gutman Sr. and his wife, Catherine Brown, welcomed a son. The Goodman and the Brown families, originally Gutman and Braun, were of Germanic backgrounds. Son Michael Goodman, born on June...