A small group of the first settlers in the Fredericksburg area was of Lutheran faith. Their first religious leader was to be a minister invi...

Theodor Wilhelm Renatus Fiedler was born on July 9, 1855 in Lautenthal, Zellerfeld, Hanover, Prussia, German Empire . His parents were Georg...

One of the Gs in "My Polish Alphabet" is for Gdańsk. The city situated by the Baltic Bay, in the north of Poland, is over 1000 yea...

A few years ago, when I started reading a genealogy-type book dedicated to the people who lived in the County, somehow, I found several name...

It has been a while since I discovered any new family tree branches and connections leading to our direct ancestors. Not long ago, while loo...

When I once mentioned I used to play handball, people who I talked to had no clue what game I was talking about. They tended to associate th...

Edward Isaac Johnson was born to Edward Isreal Johnson and his wife Elisabeth David in 1816, in Portsmouth, England. After relocating to Ame...