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...
by Marc | Aug 24, 2023 | ARC, WAW
With the 400th Anniversary of our first ancestor’s arrival in the New World, it becomes important to recognize how and where these early families settled. The arrival and settlement are broken into five 50-year time periods, starting with 1600 and ending in the 1800s....
by Marc | Jul 5, 2023 | ARC, WAW
Elizabeth Kistler’s ancestors survived through the most harrowing struggles Europe had to offer. Her parents and grandparents, although living near the town of Freiburg, which means “town of freedom,” was anything but. There was Catholic domination from the Empire,...
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