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Jan 24, 20227 min read

Hannah and William, Part 2

(Click Here for Part 1) After boarding the train, William Howe and the 116th Pennsylvania Regiment stopped in Washington, D.C. where it...

Jan 17, 20225 min read

Hannah and William, Part 1

Hannah Krebs Shaner was born 14 July 1833, the second child of Charles and Elizabeth Krebs Shaner. Her mother died on 6 March 1837. ...

Jan 10, 20223 min read

Sgt. Schoener, Artificer

Johann Wilhelm Schoener (recorded as Johann Wilhelm Schiner in the church record), my 5x great grandfather, was born on 3 December 1749...

Nov 29, 20214 min read

The Music Man of Upper Darby

Here is the story of one of my cousins who was a true inspiration to those around him and everyone he met. He had a positive impact on...

Nov 14, 20213 min read

The Schoeners At the Turn of the Century (20th)

Every wonder what the family looked like more than 100 years ago? Well, let me turn back the clock to about 1903. The photo above is...

Nov 8, 20212 min read

Here Comes The Judge

James Franklin "Jim" Schoener was born on 10 December 1923 in Piqua, Ohio. He was the second child and only son of George Morris and...

Oct 4, 20215 min read

"You Have Struck Me As With Roses"

In 1638, after six weeks of a tempestuous sea and storm voyage, Obadiah Holmes, Sr., his wife and 3 year old son Jonathan, arrived in...

Sep 20, 20216 min read

The Life and Death of Johann Georg Schöner

Reverend Henry Melchior Muhlenberg took joy in much of his work, like the baptisms and the confirmations and the occasional deathbed...

Sep 6, 20214 min read

The Lutheran Emissary

William Penn was the instigator of German immigration. As a zealous propagandist of the Quaker doctrines, he visited Germany in 1671 and...

Aug 29, 20213 min read

A Fallen Hero

With the current issues surrounding the conflict in Afghanistan, I thought I would do a post dedicated to a young man who fought and died...

Aug 2, 20218 min read

The Scottish Prisoner of War

Welcome to my 100th Post! As mentioned in the previous post "The Clann Donnachaidh," Daniel Robertson was the first of the Robbins...

Jul 19, 20216 min read

A Difficult Tale To Tell

It is fun to find out about your ancestors and about the history that they lived. But, every amateur genealogist has in the back of his...

Apr 26, 20215 min read

The Ceramic Artist

George David Shaner was born on 11 November 1934 in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, the fifth and youngest child of John Yerger Shaner and Emma...

Apr 12, 20214 min read

The Lumber King of Pennsylvania, Part 2

At the age of 63, John DuBois started developing his property in Clearfield County. He had returned in 1871 to George Shaffer, but...

Apr 4, 20217 min read

The Lumber King Of Pennsylvania, Part 1

In this two-part blog I will introduce you to a relative who was so industrious that, as a result, he had not one, but two towns named...

Mar 29, 20213 min read

A Small World Story

One day at work I came across a fellow employee whose last name looked very familiar. It was "Ritenour." We worked in the same...

Mar 8, 20214 min read

A Casualty of the Pandemic

Josiah Yerger Shaner was born on 26 October 1898 in Sanatoga, Montgomery County, PA. He was the oldest child of Irvin S. and Cora A....

Feb 28, 20214 min read

The Horseman

William "Bill" Buckley Fasig was born on 27 September 1845, in Ashland, Ohio. He was the son of Samuel Fasig, a brick mason, and Lucinda...

Feb 21, 20218 min read

Sturm und Drang

This is another post that explores new territory for me. I have not yet posted anything about relatives who did not immigrate to America....

Nov 29, 20205 min read

An Assayer of the U.S. Mint

William Ewing DuBois was born 15 December 1810 to the Reverend Uriah and Martha (nee Patterson) DuBois in Doylestown, Bucks County,...