In doing online sweeps for unresolved, related threads of this genealogy, one thing always makes me do a doubletake. That’s when I find that this blog pops up, often seeming to have most of the available information about a certain person or even place.
Why aren’t other sources showing up?
Actually, I find it a bit disconcerting. Especially when individuals have simply vanished from sight, even mine.
This is my hometown, a decade or so before I showed up.
He was not interested at all in family history. Did not care to learn about his ancestors but was willing to share what he did know.
John Howell, 1987
One of this family is a Mary Agnes Cloppert. My father named me after her as he said she was the most beautiful woman he had ever known. I never realized until I saw this paper that she was a cousin to my father.
Agnes Winkleman, 1985
Perhaps if all the research had already been done, we wouldn’t be nearly as engaged. Still, once in a while, we find one of our lines quite thoroughly worked out. This has happened just twice for me – once, with my Ozbun lineage, and again with my McSherry side, the latter because of the work of Agnes Winkleman assisted by Gale Honeyman, who was, I should note, also a Spitler descendant.
She treasured her membership in the Daughters of the American Revolution.
Here’s a bit from one of our exchanges.
I mentioned to a good friend of mine who is associated with the Brookville Spitler House about your interest in the Ehrstine family and she put these three pages together …
I have found the Ehrstine Cemetery and it is not where I thought it was. It is located just north of a large shopping center on a narrow road that is much traveled.
Agnes Winkleman, 1985
Agnes Winkleman is a very dear friend and distant relative …
Gale Honeyman, 1987
Orphan George 