by Marc | Oct 25, 2025 | ARC
Born in 1840 in Georgetown, South Carolina, Benjamin Alston grew up enslaved on an Alston family plantation, where his parents, James and Hannah Alston, also lived and labored. His father, born about 1810, worked for William Allan Alston, son of Joseph and Mary...
by Marc | Aug 7, 2025 | ARC
Anderson: very common patronymic from the personal name Anders, a form of Andrew Batdorf: the town of the baths Bordner: Bartner, an occupational name for a (battle) axe maker Brown: Braun, referring to the color of the hair, complexion, or clothing Bucher:...
by Marc | Aug 7, 2025 | ARC
Jeanne Romberger, 2/26/94 We lived aside of Beulah, in the same double house with Marg and Al Kohler. On the lower side. Our front gate went in beside Beulah’s front fence. On the other side of the house from where their gate was ! If you stand facing...
by Marc | Aug 2, 2025 | ARC
The genealogical record of Jacob Livezly and Eleanor Culin Livezly, our 3rd great-grandparents, reads like a chronicle of heartbreak—a family tree repeatedly pruned by tragedy, war, and the harsh realities of 19th and early 20th century life. What makes their story...
by Marc | Jul 2, 2025 | ARC
Sarah Humphreys Murphy lived on Locust Street in Philadelphia, a Presbyterian woman whose Welsh Quaker ancestry stretched back through centuries of nobility to the earliest settlers of Pennsylvania. Though she had embraced Presbyterianism, Sarah carried within her...
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