Recently I wrote a four-part narrative titled “Ancestral Families of Sarah Adaline “Addie” (Grove) Garber (1872-1950)….” The legendary Hans Herr was one of her ancestors. Part II of the narrative covered the Herr family. I noted there the long-standing tradition that he was from Canton Zurich in Switzerland, but that one record of 1671 refugees
When I began collecting information and data prior to writing Jacob J. Dyck: Am Trakt To America (ATTA), I relied on the best existing sources at that time, 1996-2000. This often included information that was researched and written, sometimes published, by other persons as well as oral history from older relatives. Since the book
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The principal presenter for the June 30, 2019, meeting at the Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, was Dr. Michael D. Lacopo. He had been speaking around the country for three weeks when he landed in Pittsburgh but was well-prepared with lots of visuals and a list of credentials a mile long. His studies go back
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