Guest: Carol Foltz Cincinnati Ohio
Date-Time: Monday, June 26, 2000 at 19:17:20 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Wellbrock, Reisiger, Claus, Mohs, Moemke, Wessel, Hermeich, Luebbe, Held, Bauer, Ritter, Wissel, Macke
Comments: Just came across your page. Have not checked everything yet
Email address: cahalosh2@wildmail.com
Guest: Dee Horay West Berllin, NJ
Date-Time: Monday, June 26, 2000 at 16:16:27 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Llewelyn, Kepner, Mauger, Levengood, Davis, Hofman
Comments: If I have hit on any of these names, please contact me. Thank You, Dee Horay
Email address: deehoray@excite.com
Guest: Tracy Berthelson Southbury, CT
Date-Time: Sunday, June 25, 2000 at 16:02:16 (CDT)
Page visited: All of your websites
Surnames of interest: Ziegler
Comments: I really enjoyed your websites. It was interesting to find out why the germans were called PA Dutch. My great-great grandfather and his parents and other siblings came from Germany and settled in Lancaster County, PA. I plan to take a trip there soon. Thank You for the information you presented.
Email address: JBerthelso@aol.com
Guest: Betty Hayes- Springfield, Illinois
Date-Time: Friday, June 23, 2000 at 15:31:06 (CDT)
Page visited: Kirchner Gen. Home Page
Surnames of interest: Kirchner, Adam- Kirchner, (Gumpert) Elizabeth
Comments: I too am researching Kirchner, Adam born in Germany in 1857 an married Gumpert, Elizabeth in Germany. Thats about all i know, so i search all Kirchners. Thanks
Email address: BAHazy1@aol.com
Guest: Bernard W. and Roseann Spieth
Date-Time: Thursday, June 22, 2000 at 20:31:50 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Spieth
Comments: Did William Send you a copy of the boat manifest of Brig Cora from Rotterdam to NewYork on which Johan Gottlieb and Johan Adam Spieth arived in the U.S. on Aug. 4, 1832. If not let us Know and we will mail it to you. Bernie and Rosie Spieth
Email address: brspieth@ligtel.com
Guest: Ruth Wylie, Madison, MS
Date-Time: Sunday, June 18, 2000 at 03:59:45 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Derr (if this is Darr) Egner Verble
Comments: I have just found this website, and am beginning to look through it. I haven't found the part yet about Derr's or Egner's or name changes.
Email address: ruthwylie@aol.com or tillie52@aol.com
Guest: Irene Diehl Konrad, Boca Raton, FL
Date-Time: Thursday, June 15, 2000 at 16:03:51 (CDT)
Page visited: ALL of them!
Surnames of interest: There are about 100 surnames on my home page that I am researching.
Comments: Your pages are WONDERFUL! Very informative and with many links that researchers will find very helpful. I think we must be related - but I haven't yet found the connection. :-)
Email address: idkonrad@aol.com
Guest: Theda J. Brinker, Lewisburg, PA
Date-Time: Thursday, June 15, 2000 at 12:02:43 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Berger, Heist, Keinert, Zimmerman, Schaeffer, Fink, Funk, Eisenhardt, Grim, Dorney, Miller, Lerch, Woodring, Horn, Jones,Bernard, Bogart,Bortz Keck,Mertz, Klein, Roth,Knauss, Schadt,Schneider
Comments: I have shared e-mail with you last year. Since then I have been able to up-date my hardware and am able to do more with my research.
Email address: tjbrink@ptd.net
Guest: Pamela D. Hudson, Patterson, GA
Date-Time: Thursday, June 15, 2000 at 08:58:35 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: KOETHE, ROSSFELD, ACKMAN(N), GAUSSER, EHLE
Comments: Just breezed through looking for KOETHE information. This is my mother's side of the family and they just seemed to have "appeared" mysteriously in Pennsylvania. Thank you for supplying what info you have with others. Wish me luck. :o)
Email address: redbirdacres@yahoo.com
Guest: Maggie Bennett, Winchester VA
Date-Time: Thursday, June 15, 2000 at 06:47:29 (CDT)
Page visited: 18th Century PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Goralczyk, Goralski, Goralewski, Jablonski, Hoffman
Comments: Very interesting information.
Email address: papa51@gateway.net
Guest: Deborah Troxel , Laporte, MN
Date-Time: Thursday, June 15, 2000 at 00:06:35 (CDT)
Page visited: All three
Surnames of interest: TROXEL , NEWCOMER, FYE, HOAGLAND
Comments: I will be visiting Lehigh County again this coming week. Several Troxel researchers will be visiting Eygpt. We are taking 2 buses from Gettysburg on the 24 th of June. If you know of any TROXEL researchers who might be interested in meeting us or sharing info please pass this on to them. I am seeking the parents of Isaac Troxel born in 1805 married to Mary Catherine Fye born in 1807 . They married in PA and had four children there. (George, Charles, Juliana and Mary Catherine.) Sincerely, Debbie Troxel wife of Duane Troxel
Email address: troxels@bji.net
Guest: Lucinda Leighty Steinmeyer, New Stanton PA
Date-Time: Wednesday, June 14, 2000 at 23:35:12 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs, PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch, PA German Nicknames, PA German Name Spelling Idiosyncrasies
Surnames of interest: Leighty, Lichty, Lichte
Comments: I think your web pages are wonderful and have been most helpful as I am pondering over an ancestor who I believe to be named Johannes Jacob Lichty. Thanks so much for everything!!!!! :-)
Email address: Lucinda_s_2000@Yahoo.com
Guest: Keith Allen Kerchner, Sturgis, Mi. 49091
Date-Time: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 at 14:27:47 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Henry Kerchner, Harry Kerchner
Comments: Henry would be my Great grandfather, Harry my Grandfather, James my Father. I believe Henry and Harry would have been living in Doners Grove, Ill.
Email address: Kakerchner@aol.com
Guest: howard smith,tonawanda,ny
Date-Time: Tuesday, June 13, 2000 at 09:18:31 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: meyers,scherer
Comments: Thank you for the information will help alot
Email address: cbill10603@aol.com
Guest: Hans Slui from Dordrecht near Rotterdam (Holland)
Date-Time: Monday, June 12, 2000 at 18:55:22 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Altough i am a real dutchmen i never knew were that name came from so thanx if any one wants to know where the name holland comes from, mail greetings from the united kingdom of the Netherlands.
Email address: hans_slui@hotmail.com
Guest: scott humphrey, columbus ohio
Date-Time: Saturday, June 10, 2000 at 14:19:48 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: wolfe, mingus, jonas, kasler
Comments: what a great site, i am sure i will use it for reference many times. thank-you
Email address: scott1117@aol.com
Guest: Patricia Moore Shaffer, Augusta, GA
Date-Time: Saturday, June 10, 2000 at 13:53:18 (CDT)
Page visited: Laudenslager Home Page
Surnames of interest: Lautenschlager, Mills, Kirnbauer
Comments: I have just begun researching my Lautenschlager relatives who resided in Wilmot Township, Waterloo County, Ontario. Your website has provided a wealth of information. Thank you.
Email address: shaffer@groupz.net
Guest: Joyce Garvin, San Diego, CA
Date-Time: Friday, June 09, 2000 at 17:08:49 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner 18th Century PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Fehlman, Fehlmann, Fahlman, Fahlmann, Fellman
Comments: Your observations seem to hold true for my French relatives also.
Email address: joygarvin@aol.com
Guest: Allen Neal Hizer, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Date-Time: Friday, June 09, 2000 at 12:54:08 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, PA German Naming Customs, PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch, PA German Nicknames, etc
Surnames of interest: Heizer, Heiser, Heyser, Rockefeller from the Hudson River Valley Region
Comments: Printed copies of your sites to be read at home. Just as an interesting aside, sometimes the genes show up generations later. There was an oral tradition from my father and his Uncle that there was a Hizer/Rockefeller connection. I believe my gt. grandfather, Lyman Henry Heizer (1831- 1890's?), was a grandson of a John Heizer and Margaret Rockefeller, d/o Simon Rockefeller. My father, Walter A. Hizer (1906-1992), looked like an identical twin of Nelson A. Rockefeller (1908-1979).
Email address: AlxHzr@hotmail.com
Guest: Diane Minnich Mowery
Date-Time: Thursday, June 08, 2000 at 13:57:35 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Minnich, Silfies,Rothrock, Judd, Buchman, Yundt
Comments: I enjoyed your website. I have been researching the "Minnich" family for 3 years. At Christmas I became more diligent due to the purchase of a decent computer. I have come in contact with distant relatives, that I have never known. The reason for my search was due to my greatgreat grandfathers German Bible that was given to me and the hand inscriptions in it. He along with three of his teenage sons died within one month of influenza. Diane Minnich Mowery
Email address: RMDM021266@aol.com
Guest: Gloria Butler Davis, Grafton, WI
Date-Time: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 at 23:28:00 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Brücher, Brücker, Hunt, Schenk, Fuhrer, Hirschel
Comments: My ancestors emigrated to the US from Hesse Darmstadt about 1856 and settled in Narrowsburg, Sullivan Co., NY and later Wayne Co., PA. It has been difficult for me to research long distance and sites like yours make it a little easier and often teach me something I did not already know. Thank you.
Email address: kg_davis@email.msn.com
Guest: donna laudenslager haughwout
Date-Time: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 at 18:20:30 (CDT)
Page visited: laudenslager haughwout
Surnames of interest: i was just researching the laudenslager name,due to that was my maiden name..
Comments: your site was very helpful to me and very well done.thanks for the site once again
Email address: haughwout@alo.com
Guest: michael swink , claremont n.c.
Date-Time: Wednesday, June 07, 2000 at 16:51:54 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: swink , herrmann
Comments: This is avery helpful site. I was aware of some of the ideas of naming but not to the extent that you have explained. This will make my research much easier and more enjoyable. Thank you.
Email address: mwswink@xtremeol.com
Guest: Otto Althoff, South Hero, VT
Date-Time: Sunday, June 04, 2000 at 13:12:06 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Althoff
Comments: Thanks for the information.
Email address: althoffo@castleton.edu
Guest: Bill Luke, Bishop, CA.
Date-Time: Friday, June 02, 2000 at 18:33:54 (CDT)
Page visited: All pages
Surnames of interest: CUNIUS, CUNNIUS, FEGER, KNELLY, BABB
Comments: I maintain a data base on CUNIUS, CUNNIUS, FEGER, KNELLY as they are German. I have the German birth place of all, except KNELLY. KNELLY is a phonics change. I feel that I have located the KNELLY'S leaving for America in 1832. I need to find them as Passengers on a ship. Interested in collecting info for my data base. All children were married in PA.
Email address: lookn4@schat.com
Guest: Marjorie Mayer, orig Wadsworth OH
Date-Time: Friday, June 02, 2000 at 18:13:53 (CDT)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Very interesting, thanks for the info.
Email address: marji_mayer1@in4free.com
Guest: Carol Lautenschlager, Kansas City, Missouri
Date-Time: Friday, June 02, 2000 at 16:43:48 (CDT)
Page visited: Laudenslager Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Lautenschlager
Comments: I was not aware comments were a requirement. I merely wished you to know I had visited your site as a guest. Enjoyed the information.
Email address: clautenschlager@gilmorebell.com
Guest: (Audrey) Jo (Dudley) LAMBETH, Dallas TX
Date-Time: Friday, June 02, 2000 at 08:05:44 (CDT)
Page visited: German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Steinmetz/Staymates, Stamets,
Comments: Some of what is included in your explanations, I already knew. However, I wish to express my thanks for clarifying this to those who did not know.
Email address: jall5255@airmail.net
Guest: steven laudenslager
Date-Time: Thursday, June 01, 2000 at 19:48:34 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: laudenslager
Comments: my mother has has info on laudenslager's that go back 4generations before me. does not appear to be of your same side of family. our side of family is from snyder county, and ties to the stahl family on my grandmother's side robert enoch laudenslager and lydia stahl laudenslager snyder county had a fire and there is a record gap would be interested in trading info if of any value to you
Email address: csladnslgr@redrose.net
Guest: richard shade,hillsboro ohio
Date-Time: Thursday, June 01, 2000 at 14:06:15 (CDT)
Page visited: PA german naming customs
Surnames of interest: shade, ebert, scherer, goetz, kline
Comments: german naming customs are of vital interest to me. thank you
Email address: uneedus@peoplepc.com
Guest: William Frederick Nicol, Redding, CA
Date-Time: Tuesday, May 30, 2000 at 18:41:41 (CDT)
Page visited: Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Nicklaus, Nicol
Comments: When training at the Johns Hopkins Hospital in the 1960s I met John Kirchner, MD, Chief of Otolaryngology at the Yale Medical School, if my memory serves me correctly. Is there a connection?
Email address: billnicol@aol.com
Guest: Shirlene Wright, Elizabethtown, Ky.
Date-Time: Monday, May 29, 2000 at 00:43:55 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Eisenhart
Comments: Nice site
Email address: slwright@ne.infi.net
Guest: Ralph A. Volpe, Derry, PA 15627-9713
Date-Time: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 at 19:10:05 (CDT)
Page visited: Home Pare, PA German Naming...,PA Dutch are not...German Nicknames, etc.
Surnames of interest: Lydick, Stuchell and Carney.
Comments: Mr. Kerchner: I have been researching my family genealogy for several months. The names noted above should be familiar "Pennsylvania German" surnames to you. I must tell you that I have never been so impressed with the value of the information, the thoroughness, and pure educational value, as is put forth in these pages. I have never learned so much about my own people as I have on this web site. Thank you very much for a great educational experience. I have come away with a brand new appreciation for my own heirtage. Thank you. Ralph A. Volpe.
Email address: rymaccountry@peoplepc.com
Guest: Viola Abraham, Cincinnati, Ohio
Date-Time: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 at 15:37:25 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Smidt, Schmidt, Smith, Lechleiter, Wilkerson, Parret, Pursley, Berry, Hawn, Rupert.
Comments: Thanks for all your help. Your website is just wonderful. It was a real help.
Email address: ViolaAbraham@cs.com
Guest: Viola Abraham, Cincinnati, Ohio
Date-Time: Tuesday, May 23, 2000 at 15:37:05 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Smidt, Schmidt, Smith, Lechleiter, Wilkerson, Parret, Pursley, Berry, Hawn, Rupert.
Comments: Thanks for all your help. Your website is just wonderful. I was a real help.
Email address: ViolaAbraham@cs.com
Guest: Ronda Rivers-Stone---Emporia, Kansas
Date-Time: Monday, May 22, 2000 at 09:17:06 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Homepage
Surnames of interest: Kerchner
Comments: Great Webpage, Charles!! Lots of work to help others--what a wonderful gift!
Email address: rstone@usd253.org
Guest: Lucille Innerst-Nordgren
Date-Time: Thursday, May 18, 2000 at 23:33:19 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs, and sampling of other articles
Surnames of interest: Innerst, Behler, Blymire, Reachard, Ebert, Hartman, Liebenstein, Glatfelder, Hildebrand, Rojahn, Koenig, Schoenberger, Schwartz, Schaeffer, Schneider, Neff
Comments: Your article on German naming patterns is something I've been searching for. Others look most interesting, so I've "bookmarked" your site and will return often. My roots are all in York County, PA and prior to that, the Palatinate and Switzerland. Your site will be a most valuable research tool. Thank you.
Email address: lucyno28@cruzio.com
Guest: Denise Parsons, McHenry IL
Date-Time: Thursday, May 18, 2000 at 21:42:58 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Luebkemann, Graeper, Feldmann, Kleine, Humbke, Lampe, Linnemeyer, Myers, Luehloh, Schwiering, Ollenberg, Sudbrinks, Witte
Comments: I found your site to be extremely helpful, as you see by the surnames I am researching I had discovered a multitude of various spellings for the names. The information on your website assisted me in locating many of these individuals under their "AKA" spellings. Thanks again, Denise
Email address: dmpafl@aol.com
Guest: Kimberly Balevre Miami, FL
Date-Time: Sunday, May 14, 2000 at 18:30:26 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy
Surnames of interest: Karchner
Comments: My fam. has the name Karchner are ther any more?
Email address: eve@darkdoors.com
Guest: kim quier, breinigsville PA (originally emmaus)
Date-Time: Friday, May 12, 2000 at 21:42:17 (CDT)
Page visited: PA german naming customs
Surnames of interest: dearolf, corner, walk
Comments: very interesting!
Email address: bibiki1@gateway.net
Guest: Ann, Powder Springs, Ga.
Date-Time: Friday, May 12, 2000 at 12:23:00 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Wilson
Comments: I realized right away that your web site won't be of help to me. However, it was well worth the browse just to listen to the music.
Email address: awjmajinga@aol.com
Guest: Cindy S. - Warren, PA
Date-Time: Friday, May 12, 2000 at 10:05:09 (CDT)
Page visited: German naming customs, etc.
Surnames of interest: KLENCK, HUCK
Comments: WONDERFUL, WONDERFUL WEBSITE! I learned more about German names in 15 min. on your sites than I have in 2 yrs. of amateur researching in my spare time. Thank you so much and keep up the great work.
Email address: spotl@madbbs.com
Guest: Dawn, Michigan
Date-Time: Tuesday, May 09, 2000 at 09:51:51 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: PA German Naming Customs
Comments: Your site has been so helpful to me, and your work is truely appreciated! Thanks for this info. Dawn
Email address: sheerhope@att.net
Guest: Peggy Kieffer
Date-Time: Monday, May 08, 2000 at 21:59:58 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, Pa German Naming Customs etc etc
Surnames of interest: Kerchner, Hall, Churchill,
Comments: I visited to research or verify a link to my greatgreat grandparents, Jonathan Hall and Susanah Kerchner Hall. The family had spelled it Kirschner but have found that my great grandfather spelled many things as they sounded to him. I have pictures I have verified as the Hall family and believe one photo is of Susanah Kerchner Hall and I think her sister Jerildene Kerchner Churchill. The sisters settled and died in Fillmore County, Ne and I am trying to document their parents. Susanahs' death certificate lists only George Kerchner born in PA. Other e-mail contacts have led to the belief that this is indeed George Kerchner who died in Keokuk, Iowa. Would you have these names in any of your files and family lines? I really enjoyed the German Naming Customs as both my husband's family and mine have many German ancestors and this really clarifys some confusion. THANK YOU
Email address: Kieffer@aol.com
Guest: Diane Boone
Date-Time: Friday, May 05, 2000 at 10:00:27 (CDT)
Page visited: All of them
Surnames of interest: Actually Mr. Kerchner, I am researching the name Kerce. So I am sure you understand my interest in your web site.
Comments: We know that our family migrated from South Carolina in 1852. However, I have been unable to link back to anyone before they settled in South Carolina. One family member had research done, but the information in the report doesn't match what I have found on the internet, eg. name of the ship and the date of its arrival are not the same in the documents I have found compared to the report. You site was very helpful! the naming patterns, the meanings of names, etc. gave me more insight into how to interpret what I find. Oh yes, I was looking in Pennsylvania because I found a Johan Kertz who was aboard a ship that landed in Philadelphia (I believe -- I don't have all my notes here with me.)
Thank you for your site. I really enjoyed it.
Email address: TBoone2162@aol.com
Guest: Don Sempsrott
Date-Time: Thursday, May 04, 2000 at 20:01:22 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Sempsrott, Semsrott, Semsrath
Comments: Many thanks for all your labors, this is a great sevice to German Researchers
Email address: dsunspot@aol.com
Guest: Mark S. Laudenslager, Anniston AL
Date-Time: Wednesday, May 03, 2000 at 02:14:51 (CDT)
Page visited: Laudenslager Genealogy Home Page and Laudenslager Coat of Arms
Surnames of interest: Laudenslager
Comments: Appreciate your work on the genealogy of the Laudenslager Family. Quite interesting. My parents & grandparents are from the Ohio area...relatively close to PA. I'm a Capt in the USAF, Engineer, and I travel all around the world. It's nice to get on the internet and see a little piece of home. Thanks for your effort!
Email address: Mark_Laudenslager@yahoo.com
Guest: Brian Mouse
Date-Time: Tuesday, May 02, 2000 at 19:30:27 (CDT)
Page visited: PA Dutch are German not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Mouse (Maus)
Comments: I have Daniel Mouse entering the U.S. in 1743 from Rotterdam. I dont know where he was from though.
Email address: wmousemo@earthlink.net
Guest: C.ADKINS, Napa, CA
Date-Time: Monday, May 01, 2000 at 22:21:01 (CDT)
Page visited: German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: OHMART, WEBER, HEINRICH, CHRIST, FRANTZ, MEEKER,ELLIOTT, HILLARD, DAVIDSON, McCLEES, ROBBINS, TANNER, ATKINS
Comments: Thanks for a great site... I was told many years ago the sufix "in" to a woman's name signifies she is a 'maiden lady' , i.e. unmarried. A polite and formal custom.
Email address: 19ercharlie@interx.net
Guest: Kaye Mullenax, Sterling, CO
Date-Time: Sunday, April 30, 2000 at 16:40:24 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Haberthier, Wolkens/Wolkins
Comments: Very nice and I will come back often. Lots of nice pages and very interesting information. Thanks for sharing Kaye
Email address: mullenax@rmi.net
Guest: Sandra (Laudenslager) Diemer
Date-Time: Saturday, April 29, 2000 at 15:01:29 (CDT)
Page visited: Laudenslager Genealogy Home Page & Coat of Arms
Surnames of interest: Laudenslager
Comments: Just learning our new computer/internet. Hope I am able to locate this again to read more information in the future. I do have some information on my direct Laudenslager relatives (if I can locate!) Are you interested? If so, please contact me at e-mail address.
Email address: diemer@nisswa.com
Guest: Hugh E. Brown,68, Selma, In.
Date-Time: Friday, April 28, 2000 at 21:23:07 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Sylvester Wesley Brown, b 1858, d1928,
Comments: Mr, Kerchner; This was my Great Grandfather and have been trying to find out more about him. He died in Indiana before I was born. My Great Grandmother Martha Jane Shultz Brown I have a doucmented book published by Prof. Lawerence Shultz now deceased that goes back to Hesse-Darmstadt circa 1716 to the 1960s, but I have little on Sylvester W. Brown. I'm just trying to leave a little history to my children if possible, Thank You, Hugh
Email address: littleacre@mindspring.com
Guest: Patricia Davies, Thorndale, Pa.
Date-Time: Friday, April 28, 2000 at 21:18:44 (CDT)
Page visited: Pa Dutch are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Extremely interesting. I'm English (I mean really!) and have lived in the USA (Chester County) for nearly 22 years and that's the best explanation I've heard. Thank you very much.
Email address: Peppett@aol.com
Guest: Lois Frantz-Rieck, Bridgewater,NJ
Date-Time: Friday, April 28, 2000 at 18:23:33 (CDT)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Frantz,Kern,Herling,Waage,Sacher,Koerner,Schaffer
Comments: I am looking for the parents of my Great Great Grandmother Harriet(Henrietta) Kern Frantz wife of Elias Frantz. My grandfather's first job was to sweep out his workshop and he referred to his grandmother as Mother Kern.
Email address: Lchairwoman@AOL.COM
Guest: William F. Hodges
Date-Time: Wednesday, April 26, 2000 at 13:10:08 (CDT)
Page visited: PA Dutch are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: White, Buechele(Beeghley), Miller. Reitsma
Comments: I have ran up against a brick wall on the above names of White,Buechele(Beeghley) and Miller the full names are Joseph P White. and Hugh M. Miller . As for Buechele,, John Adam Buechele of Germany 1718 ,, and the last ,, Earl Raymond Reitsma or Reitsman Any help on these names would be of a great help. Will
Email address: whitepaw@crcwnet.com
Guest: Ginny Pietsch
Date-Time: Monday, April 24, 2000 at 22:52:17 (CDT)
Page visited: http://www.kerchner.com/spelling.htm
Surnames of interest: Pietsch, Kubitz, Kasper, Voss, Kuebler, Hauck
Comments: Thanks for the great info. I have printed it and I know will refer to this many times during my research. Ginny Pietsch
Email address: vpietsch@pdq.net
Guest: Laura Shoecraft [Schukraft], Scottsdale, Arizona
Date-Time: Saturday, April 22, 2000 at 18:58:08 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming---PA Dutch Are Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Shoecraft [Schukraft], Robinson, Sinclear, Bennett, Hendershott, Sharp
Comments: Enjoyed visiting your web page---interesting information.
Email address: lollieshoe@uswest.net
Guest: Jim Blass Mechanicsville, MD(Originally Detroit,
Date-Time: Saturday, April 22, 2000 at 16:40:14 (CDT)
Page visited: spelling
Surnames of interest: BLASS, BLOSS, KLEINER, KETTNER, PETERSON, FLINT, CHESTER, CEZANNE, SCHULTHEIS
Comments: My main concern at the moment, and the past couple of years, is to find the father and mother of my ggrandfather, Volney Bloss/Blass. He is supposed to have been born in Orleans County, NY 4/1832, but can find no source. My father once stated he thought his family was of Pennsylvania Dutch origin. I have looked into the Pennsylvania BLOSS family cursorily and somewhat more deeply into the NY Bloss/Blass Palatine family. I truly believe the line comes through NY but there is still two more lines to follow and that is the MA Bloss family from England and the group from RI, probably of French origin.
Oh well, I'm retired and have nothing else but "Hony-Dews" and this stuff.
Email address: jmblass@us.hsanet.net
Guest: Robert F Gann Jr
Date-Time: Saturday, April 22, 2000 at 10:49:47 (CDT)
Page visited: The 1812 project
Surnames of interest: Gann,Newlin,starns,Dalton,James,Younger
Comments: I hope to find everybody
Email address: bgann@eurekanv.org
Guest: Phillip Jares, Minneapolis MN
Date-Time: Friday, April 21, 2000 at 09:52:59 (CDT)
Page visited: http://www.kerchner.com/http://www.kerchner.com/guestadd.htm
Surnames of interest: Jares, Nanik, Hoemberg, Dietsch, Breher, Jasan
Comments: Enjoyed your information on German naming patterns. My German ancestors lived in PA only a short time before moving to WI and MN. Am wondering if the German PA families brought the nameing patterns with them from Germany? Thank you for sharing your information! :)
Email address: pjares@aol.com
Guest: Bernice Welch, Lemon Grove, CA
Date-Time: Saturday, April 15, 2000 at 16:16:31 (CDT)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Burger, Miller, perhaps Boyle
Comments: With these common PA Dutch names, it's rather difficult to know when the right ancestor is found. It will be easier when their church affiliation can be found. Your information about the naming customs should be most helpful, too. Thank you.
Email address: cagrapes@juno.com
Guest: Edie Butler Kingston,Tn
Date-Time: Saturday, April 15, 2000 at 01:23:23 (CDT)
Page visited: pa dutch are german not dutch
Surnames of interest: meyer,meyers,wockley,cadamor
Comments: I enjoyed hearing how it became Pa Dutch. My mother always said her family was from high germany and I never knew what she meant.It was nice reading your explanation
Email address: hunter@icx.net
Guest: Judy Oebser, Winona,MN
Date-Time: Friday, April 14, 2000 at 21:54:29 (CDT)
Page visited: Pretty much all
Surnames of interest: Oebser
Comments: This is a new experience for me. I never knew my grandparents but there is so much I would like to know. This is just the being of the search and I know it will be a journey of discovery. Thank you for providing so much new knowledge and resources to guide my search.
Email address: jlo@rconnect.com
Guest: Keith A. Wickard Newville, PA
Date-Time: Friday, April 14, 2000 at 19:56:35 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, PA German Naming Customs,)
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Thank you. I enjoyed your site and research. A cousin traced our family back to a Hessian Soldier. He was captured and bought to Carlisle to the now War College.The spelling changed from Wickert to a more English sounding name of Wickard. We have been told that German name meant dairy farmer.Oddly enough most of my Wickard relatives are just that...
Email address: Kwickard@netzero.net
Guest: David Rumbaugh, North Augusta, SC
Date-Time: Thursday, April 13, 2000 at 11:40:21 (CDT)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch, PA German Nicknames, etc
Surnames of interest: RAMBACH, RUMBAUGH
Comments: During WWII, my Granddad, SF Rumbaugh, Sr, adamantly insisted that we were of DUTCH origin, certainly not German. He may have fooled others, but not us. After living among the German people for ten years, I am proud of my German heritage. You have a terrific site.
Email address: johnsboy@chroniclenetworks.com
Guest: William Marose, McDonough, Georgia
Date-Time: Wednesday, April 12, 2000 at 17:31:50 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page,PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Marose, Wandry, Zellmer, Kozel
Comments: Enjoyed your site
Email address: SeaBeechief54_74@yahoo.com
Guest: David Kemle, Kent, WA
Date-Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 at 15:54:46 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Kiemle, Kemle, Dapper
Comments: Good Information
Email address: kemle@msn.com
Guest: Joseph Waegele, Westville,NJ
Date-Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 at 11:55:31 (CDT)
Page visited: German naming Customs, PA Dutch are German not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Waegele, Schmidt, Busa, Wader
Comments: Very imformative, I now can expand my research using this info.
Email address: joewaegele@snip.net
Guest: Penny (Grotts) Isenmann, St. Louis, MO
Date-Time: Tuesday, April 11, 2000 at 10:18:23 (CDT)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Grotts, Gratz (Jacob)
Comments: Thank you for the information, I am a newbie to researching geneaology on the internet - and am doing it for someone else as well. It's nice to get as much information as possible without going and doing, as I have physical limitations. Again, thank you!
Email address: pennyis@gateway.net
Guest: Thomas Bourke
Date-Time: Monday, April 10, 2000 at 02:24:30 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Dear Sir, Are you related to John Laudenslager, the photomontage artist? John Laudenslager had a show at the Polaroid Gallery in Tokyo in 1991. I am trying to contact him to see where I could find a catalogue of his Cosmographia series. Do you know of this person? Many thanks, Thomas Bourke, London
Email address: scriptsolutions@yahoo.com
Guest: Elaine Harmon, Hillsdale, Michigan
Date-Time: Sunday, April 09, 2000 at 21:04:45 (CDT)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Kimling
Comments: I am trying to find information on the Kimling Family from Ostrigen Baden Germany. My Great Great Grandfather, Mathias, came over to America in the 1840s, exact date unknown. He came with 2 of his 9 brothers. We are trying to find a link with a Fabian Kimling that came to Galveston, Tx about the same time.
Email address: elaineh@ktc.com
Guest: Beth Loudenslager Sak
Date-Time: Friday, April 07, 2000 at 13:04:35 (CDT)
Page visited: Laudenslager
Surnames of interest: Loudenslager
Comments: Have always been curious about my name. I haven,t had a chance to reall all your research but it sounds as if the originial spelling was Laudenslager. YOu have really done a grat job.
Email address: econcrete@yahoo.com
Guest: Vicky Farmer, Ashland, MA
Date-Time: Friday, April 07, 2000 at 13:00:58 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Farmer, Kerchner/Karchner, Overmyer, Eversole, Vogt/Fought
Comments: My great-great grandfather, Edward Karchner, was born either in Mauch Chunk or Kunkletown, PA and attended a Kerchner family reunion in 1912. I have a newspaper clipping of that and also an obituary for one of his sisters where it says the family traveled from PA to OH in a covered wagon in 1847. Hi cousin!
Email address: hoptoad@flash.net
Guest: Greta Bergan, Phoenix, AZ
Date-Time: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 at 13:23:18 (CDT)
Page visited: All
Surnames of interest: Welker, Stoker (also Stocker), and Eller
Comments: You have done a wonderful job. So glad I found this website. We think our Welkers went from Germany to Holland, and then to America. They settled in NC. The Stokers were always with them in America, but we don't know if they came over together.
Email address: greta66@aol.com
Guest: Jane Green- Catasauqua, Pa.
Date-Time: Wednesday, April 05, 2000 at 00:33:48 (CDT)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy homepage
Surnames of interest: Kressley, Messemer, Schneider, Georg
Comments: I remembered a few more pa. surnames that I research. I would be happy to share info. Jane
Email address: green956@aol.com
Guest: Mary Anne Cook living in Homosassa Florida
Date-Time: Saturday, April 01, 2000 at 10:18:21 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, PA German Naming Customs,
Surnames of interest: Byroad,Bollinger,Ullery,Cory,Brumbaugh, Purdue,Owens,Cook, Newman,Schwarzwalder,Kimler
Comments: I am hoping to find some of my family ancestors through your site. The Byroad side of my ancestry is said to be Pennsylvania Dutch. My GGGrandmother Nancy Brumbaugh was said to be so Dutchy that noone could understand her. She was m. to my GGGrandfather Enos Byroad. I have found your site to be most interesting and informative of my Pennsylvania Dutch Herritage.
Email address: tiredgranny@hitter.net
Guest: Dr. Beuerman Kingman, AZ
Date-Time: Friday, March 31, 2000 at 08:01:56 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Beuermann,Lehmann,Peter,Tourte
Comments: A very informative treatise. Thank you.
Email address: bdocdon@aol.com
Guest: Dean B. Mohr, Spinnerstown, PA
Date-Time: Thursday, March 30, 2000 at 19:36:31 (CST)
Page visited: Palatines to America
Surnames of interest: Mohr
Comments: My branch of the Mohrs are from Springfield Twp,Bucks, stemming from Alfred d1943 and his father David Mohr
Email address: dmohr@netcarrier.com
Guest: Linda Wolfe Stalnaker,Marietta Ohio
Date-Time: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 at 11:47:52 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Wolf,Tuel,Meeks, Salisbury,Gattrell, Johnson, Coen, Cohen, Cronin,Towne, Matheny, Brewer, Blouir,Steele, Taylor, Kester, Thrasher
Comments: I really enjoyed visiting all the German Sites. They are very well done and very helpful. My Wolfe line is the one giving me the most trouble. George W Wolf was born in Franklin County Ohio 1842 to Michael and Ruth (Ticher?) Wolf. I do believe they were oringinally in Pa but have no proof so I'll just keep looking. Thanks again for such good work it was and is very helpful to us all. Linda
Email address: stalnakl@marietta.edu
Guest: Brian Mouse, Urich, Mo.
Date-Time: Monday, March 27, 2000 at 12:24:07 (CST)
Page visited: kerchner genealogy home page
Surnames of interest: Mouse, Maus
Comments: My ancestor came from rotterdam in 1744. Daniel Mouse (Maus) I would like to know where I can go from there.
Email address: wmousemo@earthlink.net
Guest: Donna Nesland, Peotone, Illinois (not my computer)
Date-Time: Sunday, March 26, 2000 at 08:02:26 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, PA
Surnames of interest: George P. Kerchner,Sr, Benjamin Kerchner, and Charles Kerchner (my grandfather)
Comments: Very nice and quite extensive web page. My great aunt Georgene P. Kerchner, a school teacher, did a great deal of research on our geneaology and discovered we were related to John Hancock (signer of Declaration of Independence). Unfortunately, her records have been lost since her death. I am trying to recreate her records, without much success. Thanks for your generosity in letting me browse your research. Keep it up!
Email address: Qti1999@aol.com
Guest: Roseann M. Clavelli, San Mateo, CA (orig. - Beth.)
Date-Time: Saturday, March 25, 2000 at 22:12:43 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs, German Nicknames
Surnames of interest: Achterman(n), Free (all spellings: Frueh, Frieh, Frie)
Comments: Thank you for an informative web page. It is wonderful to have such excellent research available so generously. I am sure that other family researchers also appreciate your tips. I particularly was interested in the German Naming Customs, as it appears to be the pattern our family followed. I plan to read your page on PA Dutch when I complete this registration.
Email address: clavelli@aol.com
Guest: Gerald Klemm
Date-Time: Saturday, March 25, 2000 at 14:07:07 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Klemm, Derr, Shriner, Schreiner, Beal
Comments: Thank you very much for the German Naming Customs information. I have made a copy for my brother who also does genealogy study.
Email address: desoto9@juno.com
Guest: Kent Odenwelder, Haverhill, MA
Date-Time: Friday, March 24, 2000 at 08:45:18 (CST)
Page visited: Leigh County Map and PA Dutch are German not dutch
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Searching for other information and found your web page. I was born in Allentown, and spend the first years of my life in Catasauqua, PA so I found your page interesting.
Email address: koden@worldnet.att.net
Guest: Carol (Korf) Fane, Winnebago, IL
Date-Time: Thursday, March 23, 2000 at 20:14:41 (CST)
Page visited: German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Korf,Palmer
Comments: from Lippe-Detmold
Email address: CartFane@aol.com
Guest: Clayton Waller, Marion IA
Date-Time: Wednesday, March 22, 2000 at 10:03:31 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Waller, Offterdinger
Comments: An assistant at the local Family History Center provided me with your web site address. I will be looking at your web site more in the future.
Email address: ccwaller@inav.net
Guest: David L. Stump, Mechanicsburg, PA
Date-Time: Monday, March 20, 2000 at 14:56:22 (CST)
Page visited: PA German naming customs
Surnames of interest: Stump (f), Thoman, Brenneman
Comments: Thanks
Email address: elstumpo@mindspring.com
Guest: W S Chalmers, Lewisburg, PA
Date-Time: Friday, March 17, 2000 at 14:44:06 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customes
Surnames of interest: Machamer, Pangburn, Chalmers
Comments: Thank you!
Email address: WSChalmers@mailcity.com
Guest: Nancy Lewis, Cleveland OH
Date-Time: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 22:11:08 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Cook(e), Kneisley, Baughman
Comments: How nice of you to put up this definition of PA Dutch just as my sister and I were discussing it. Very well done and interesting. Thank you!!
Email address: nlewis@freewwweb.com
Guest: Kenneth Christman, Pottstown, Pa
Date-Time: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 20:02:03 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Christman Sands
Comments: Kelly Donovan wrote to you about Philip Christman who has been missing. He was born in 1797 in Montgomery County. She gave you the details. He was German Reformed and attneded Falkner Swamp Reformed Church. Need parents fo Elmira Sands 1842 -1902 who married Isaiah Christman. both are buried at Falkner Swamp.
Email address: kenxman@juno.com
Guest: Terrell A. Smittle
Date-Time: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 15:49:58 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Smittle
Comments: Your web site provided some very useful information that may help in my search for the parents of my GGGG/Grandfather, Jacob Smittle.The earilest we know of Jacob is that he mustered on Jan. 4, 1784 as a private in the Washington Co. Pennsylvania Militia First Battalion under Capt. B.J. Stites. In the 1840 census his son stated that Jacob was born in Pennsylvania, but listed no location. Thanks for a great web site. Terry Smittle
Email address: TASmittle@aol.com
Guest: Kelly Christman Donovan, Hackettstown, NJ
Date-Time: Thursday, March 16, 2000 at 11:55:15 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Christman, Heil, Mathes
Comments: Thank you for so much information on naming customs, it will certainly make a difference in how I view records!
Email address: keldonovan@worldnet.att.net
Guest: Marianne Wakileh, Maple, Ontario, CANADA
Date-Time: Tuesday, March 14, 2000 at 18:36:54 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs, and several others.
Surnames of interest: FRITCH, TICE, BOWMAN
Comments: Thank you for putting up your pages. They are a wonderful source of information. Your info on naming patterns are a great help. I have bookmarked several of your pages so that I will have them handy.
Email address: samwakileh@home.com
Guest: John W. Summy
Date-Time: Monday, March 13, 2000 at 17:49:07 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Sumi, Summy, Merkle, Merkley, Mertz
Comments: Writing a book on the Summy Family. Looking for families of the wives of the immigrant pioneers - Frederick, Peter, Michael, and Johannes Sumi
Email address: sbrian@desupernet.net
Guest: Judith K. Swander, Clarksville TN
Date-Time: Sunday, March 12, 2000 at 08:18:27 (CST)
Page visited: The Emigration from Lehigh Co. PA to Seneca Co. Ohio
Surnames of interest: Schwander, Swander
Comments: I found several names with that surname so I will be able to do more research. Thank you for an informative website. Judy Swander
Email address: JSWANDERS@AOL.COM
Guest: Rodney Fetterman, born Fremont, OH currently in UK
Date-Time: Saturday, March 11, 2000 at 14:01:41 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Fetterman
Comments: Trying to find out as much as I can from Balthasar Fetterman back. My chain goes from Balthasar, George, Peter, John (Johannes), Aaron, Cyrus, Clifford to me. I have the basic chain info( places and dates) but not a lot of other details.
Email address: rwfette@cwcom.net
Guest: Charlotte Liphart, Lancaster, PA
Date-Time: Saturday, March 11, 2000 at 05:16:35 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page,
Surnames of interest: Leiphart, Liphart, Libhart
Comments: I am on some genealogy forums, and I got a great history from a history museum curator in R.I. who had done history when he was younger on the Liphart name for a cousin. Getting Libhart and Liphart to connect is tricky, but there are several Libhart people from Lancaster. I live in Hiram, GA, right now. Thanks for all the info, now, Charlotte Liphart
Email address: cfliphart@att.net
Guest: Sandra Boscia, Phillipsburg NJ 08865
Date-Time: Friday, March 10, 2000 at 16:41:26 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Kerschner, Schappell, Lamp, Schwartz
Comments: Great information. Looking for info on Levi and Amelia Lamp Kerschner, Schuylkill Haven and Levi's parents William (1825-18990) and Hannah Schappell (1828-1915) Kerschner.
Email address: bucky@enter.net
Guest: Helen Anglemire Rockford, IL
Date-Time: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 at 20:44:55 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Anglemire/Anglemyer, Schmidt/Smith, Racely/Rosly/Rasly
Comments: Have looked through Northampton county, but couldn't find records. Have info of John Anglemire buried at Five Points in Northampton Co on Aaug 12, 1874, but no record on the website.
Email address: knox1910@juno.com
Guest: Jeanne C. Appel, St. Louis, Mo.
Date-Time: Tuesday, March 07, 2000 at 22:43:25 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Weigel
Comments: You have very informative information. I enjoyed reading everything. Especially enjoyed the music!! It was entertaining.
Email address: J-APPEL@juno.com
Guest: Mary Tim Baggott, Yeadon PA
Date-Time: Monday, March 06, 2000 at 16:48:03 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Lemle, Lemley, Ratner, Seeley, Baggott
Comments: Nice Site!
Email address: marytim@baggott.net
Guest: Lynn Dietz of Palatine, IL
Date-Time: Monday, March 06, 2000 at 09:38:15 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Dietz, Bentz, Neuberger,
Comments: My families apparently didn't follow naming conventions, but instead named their children with their respective godparents' names... I wish they had followed this naming system...
Email address: Lydietz@aol.com
Guest: Kay Gaumer Prater, Lompoc CA
Date-Time: Sunday, March 05, 2000 at 13:34:18 (CST)
Page visited: Leihigh County PA Web, Map Room and Early Surnames
Surnames of interest: Gaumer, Ledig, Dean and Griesing
Comments: My family was in PA in the 1700's. The patriarch was a blacksmith/farmer.
Email address: cmgaumerp@yahoo.com
Guest: Rhoda Voegelin Moree
Date-Time: Saturday, March 04, 2000 at 22:43:18 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs, PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch, PA German Nicknames, etc.
Surnames of interest: Lichtenberger, Mance, Mentz, Moree, Oschmann, Pfleging, Ronk, Voegelin
Comments: I thoroughly enjoyed reading your material especially since my research will be directed to Germany in the near future. German naming customs was a great help to me. Thank you for such helpful information.
Email address: A-R-MOREE@prodigy.net
Guest: Karen Kellogg Stephen, Mehoopany, PA
Date-Time: Saturday, March 04, 2000 at 09:17:11 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Funk, Walters, Wuest(Wiest,West, Best, Brown, Stigler, Saeger, Koch
Comments: Your information on PA German Naming Customs is very helpful. I can see it followed especially in the Funk line, and even in Brown, where my great-great-grandfather was named James Brooks Brown, and known in the family as Brooks Brown.
Email address: karste@epix.net
Guest: Marge Chamberlin,Delaware Water Gap, PA
Date-Time: Saturday, March 04, 2000 at 06:23:38 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Looking for Fasuchnacht Day (doughnut day) date
Email address: marjorierw@netscape.net
Guest: Eugene R. Ruehl, Sarasota, Florida
Date-Time: Friday, March 03, 2000 at 14:59:33 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Ruehl, Meyer
Comments: I just visited for a short time today,03/03/00. I am very impressed and will be back to really spend some time at this site. It is on my favorite list. Thank you for sharing.
Email address: generuehl@hotmail .com
Guest: John Kohl, Lewiston, NY
Date-Time: Thursday, March 02, 2000 at 22:47:59 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner
Surnames of interest: Kohl, Meier, Doettrl, Hofmann, Plein, Lichtenthal, Rodems etc
Comments: I have a cousin by the name of Kirchner. I suspect the Kirchner's of Buffalo, NY were from Prussia and not Bavaria.
Email address: jkohl98@cs.com
Guest: Alx
Date-Time: Thursday, March 02, 2000 at 17:49:27 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: LILLIG
Comments: Your discussion about the naming patterns has been helpful. My father had worked in PA at one point in his life. I have never know why. I'm guessing there may have been a relative or two there? :) Would love more. Again, well done.
Email address: alxnme@hotmail.com
Guest: Elsie Braunz Mayo, Athens, MI and Phoenix, AZ
Date-Time: Thursday, March 02, 2000 at 12:12:01 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Braunz, Lick, Frederick
Comments: No comments, because I don't have the time right now to read it thoroughly. Thanks for the info.
Email address: Mombo53@aol.com
Guest: Jim Wilson, Beaver Falls, Pa.
Date-Time: Tuesday, February 29, 2000 at 13:30:57 (CST)
Page visited: Lehigh county
Surnames of interest: PRINT
Comments: I AM INTERESTED TO SEE IF YOU HAVE HAD DEALINGS WITH A PUBLICATIONS COMPANY NAMED PRINT.
Email address: wilsonba@hotmail.com
Guest: Phyllis Gapen
Date-Time: Monday, February 28, 2000 at 07:27:09 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Gapen, Gapin, Guepin
Comments: Searching for info on the publication, Pennsylvania German Proceedings, which apprently gives records of persons who were indentured in Pennsylania in the late 1700s. Specifically looking for records on Robert Bonell Gapen.
Email address: pgapen@aol.com
Guest: Patricia Schubert Zippin, Tiburon, CA
Date-Time: Saturday, February 26, 2000 at 18:31:53 (CST)
Page visited: German naming customs
Surnames of interest: Schubert, Lewis, Foster
Comments: Many thanks for your work on naming customs. I needed that. Later I look forward to coming back to see the rest of your web site. I'll save it for a real treat. Patricia Schubert Zippin
Email address: czippin@itsa.ucsf.edu
Guest: Sally Riesenberger Oriskany, NY
Date-Time: Saturday, February 26, 2000 at 18:20:38 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Kropt, (Crobe) Froelich( Freeley)
Comments: I enjoyed reading your web site. I learned a lot about the naming customs. Oh, I loved the music also.
Email address: serthunder@aol.com
Guest: Alice Stewart Rolette, ND
Date-Time: Friday, February 25, 2000 at 12:29:47 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Eschmell, Ishmael
Comments: I have not visited all of your web sites, but I am very glad that you have taken the time to write such informative pages and it has helped me greatly. Thanks!
Email address: astewart58@hotmail.com
Guest: norman schaller, salisbury township
Date-Time: Thursday, February 24, 2000 at 16:44:32 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: schaller,stien
Comments: where did i come from
Email address: schaller_1@hotmail.com
Guest: Christa Buchanan, Bakersville, NC
Date-Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 22:19:15 (CST)
Page visited: PA dutch are german not dutch
Surnames of interest:
Comments: I just loved the "Chicken Dance" music. I am originally from Nazareth and miss it terribly sometimes. I am coming home to visit in April and can't wait. Thanks again, I added your page to my "favorites" so when I get down and out and miss the North all I have to do is open up your page. Thanks again, it sounded great!!! Christa P.S. The info on the PA Dutch was very interesting as well. I am a teacher and another teacher said they were selling doughnuts next week and I asked if they were for Fastnachts Day, they looked at me very strangly and told me No they were just selling doughnuts. I got a kick out of it.
Email address: chris@m-y.net
Guest: Valerie Fox, Hays KS
Date-Time: Wednesday, February 23, 2000 at 14:14:53 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs, PA German Nicknames
Surnames of interest: Kline, Wendel
Comments: I found your pages highly interesting and made a copy so I could spend more time absorbing. I am unsure if they will help me along yet but will certainly give them a try. Thank You, Val
Email address: anniekan_2000@yahoo.com
Guest: Lynette Williams, Melbourne, Australia
Date-Time: Tuesday, February 22, 2000 at 03:21:04 (CST)
Page visited: PA German naming customs
Surnames of interest: Schro(e)der, Linde, Kaland
Comments: Thank you for your research. I have traced some of my relatives and found repeated use of the same name, including the repeatition first name for all children and thought they were particularly unoriginal in picking names for their children. I know understand that this was traditional. I am planning on looking for the naming patterns you discuss.
Email address: lynwilliams@bigpond.com.au
Guest: Jan Spencer, Corrigin, Western Australia
Date-Time: Saturday, February 19, 2000 at 03:58:52 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest:
Comments: Sorry I entered my Email address wrong in previous message. Jan
Email address: itchyfoot64@hotmail.com
Guest: Donald R. Slaybaugh
Date-Time: Monday, February 14, 2000 at 12:53:13 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch are of German Heritage, Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Slaybaugh, Schlabach, Schlebach
Comments: Your article is very interesting and enlightening. As a small child in Montana I often heard of the PA Dutch as ancestors but really had no idea of the real story. Do appreciate your efforts in putting information such as this on the web. Don Slaybaugh
Email address: donray@digisys.net
Guest: Margarete Seidenspinner
Date-Time: Sunday, February 13, 2000 at 12:09:03 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy and guestbook
Surnames of interest: I have done some research on the Tauber Valley (Baden, Germany). In addition I am looking for the descendants of those who emigrated from Werbach (Tauber, Baden) in the 18th and 19th century, e.g. Andreas Seidenspinner and Margaretha Deppisch (Baltimore), Edmund Braun (Ohio), Emilie Demoll (New York) and Heberer (Haberer; (Pennsylvania)
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Email address: nmp.seicoo@t-online.de
Guest: Sandi Sidney Lexington, Kentucky
Date-Time: Saturday, February 12, 2000 at 08:57:46 (CST)
Page visited: Almost all of them.
Surnames of interest: Egner, Beil, Fenstermacher, Biery
Comments: My maiden name is Egner, and I can't seem to find out where they came from they were in the Warsaw In. census of 1880 and supposed to have been in Ohio in 1842. Also my Beil family is from around Allentown and Catasaugua. I am new to internet searching and you are so helpful. I enjoyed your info on the P. Dutch. When I was about 6 I kicked a man for calling my grandfather "The Old Dutchman."
Email address: slousid38@cs.com
Guest: Allen Clauser, Rome, GA
Date-Time: Friday, February 11, 2000 at 19:33:15 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealgy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Clauser, Amos
Comments: Born 1798 in Eastern PA. Need parents and grandparents of.Have you come across any of the above during your research? Thanks
Email address: alclauser@aol.com
Guest: Don Guelde Grand Blanc, MI.
Date-Time: Wednesday, February 09, 2000 at 11:37:10 (CST)
Page visited: Most of your pages.
Surnames of interest: My surname.
Comments: Spent a lot of time going thru your sites. Found them very interesting and informative. You have put a lot of work into this and I really do appreciate all the effort. It is a work you can be proud of. I wish I could do it. Thanks for the 'trip'.
Email address: dguelde@tir.com
Guest: John Snowden, Tampa FL
Date-Time: Friday, February 04, 2000 at 14:40:45 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs, PA German Nicknames
Surnames of interest: Remaley/ Ramaley, Shoop/ Schup, Thisse, Moller/ Muller, Criss/ Crist, Ritter, Sterli/ Sterling
Comments: Very helpful info, those German Americans really did like to use the same few names over and over.
Email address: jonsnowden@aol.com
Guest: Larry Schwartz, Fort Collins, Colorado
Date-Time: Monday, January 31, 2000 at 11:08:27 (CST)
Page visited: PA German naming customs, PA german nicknames
Surnames of interest: Schwartz, Bieber, Fegley
Comments: Excellent site. Liked the info on the naming conventions and the nicknames. I was born in Allentown and grew up in Emmaus. Family still lives there( mother, sisters)
Email address: fcbasec@frii.com
Guest: Donna Wall, Cambridge, Ontario, Canada
Date-Time: Sunday, January 30, 2000 at 20:28:02 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Kerchner, Diehl, Foersch, Gingrich
Comments: My gggrandfather, Michael Kerchner (or one of the numerous spellings found) b. May 5, 1812 d. June 11, 1888, in Waterloo Co., came from France, according to our census records. His wife was Anna Maria Gingrich, b. Dec. 15, 1822 in Wirtemberg d. Apr. 9, 1881 in Waterloo Co.. My ggrandfather, his son, was Jacob, b. June 29, 1846 & d. Jan. 22, 1915 in Ontario, married to Maria Foersch, b. Oct. 16, 1852 & d. Sept. 30, 1937 in Ontario. Their daughter, Anna, was my grandmother married to George Diehl. My direct line listed here lived and died in southern Ontario, mainly Waterloo and Perth Counties.
Email address: d.wall@sympatico.ca
Guest: Richard Merk, Williamsport, PA
Date-Time: Saturday, January 29, 2000 at 22:11:46 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Merk,Stopper, Beiter
Comments: This is one of finest and most informative pages I have found in my search.
Email address: jenz951@aol.com
Guest: Richard Laudenslager, Wernersville, PA
Date-Time: Saturday, January 29, 2000 at 08:11:22 (CST)
Page visited: Laudenslager
Surnames of interest: Laudenslager
Comments: just starting . . . I'll get back to you, but I was so glad to find your site. Best wishes.
Email address: RichHartLaudy@aol.com
Guest: Gary Hetler, San Antonio TX
Date-Time: Friday, January 28, 2000 at 21:13:09 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Hetler, Hettler
Comments: I am looking for ANY information on the thus far mysterious past of my Grandfather, Joseph Hetler, son of John Hetler. He was born on June 7, 1874 in Pennsylvania and died October 22, 1958 in Pontiac, Michigan.
Email address: ghetler@cs.com
Guest: Terry Mudge, Mansfield, Pa. 16933
Date-Time: Thursday, January 27, 2000 at 20:41:41 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Bennighoff and Fetherolf
Comments: My wife was from Breinigsville. I have just begun to research her side of the family tree. Her father was Elmer Bennighoff. Her mother Ella Fetherolf. Thank you for the work you have done in making this site possible.!
Email address: tjmudge@epix.net
Guest: Sir Peter A. Trandler Milwaukee, Wisconsin. U.S.A.
Date-Time: Thursday, January 27, 2000 at 13:24:26 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Trandler
Comments: Greetings
Email address: Blackbird@digtalEdge.com
Guest: Dorothy J. Countryman, Fairfax, VA
Date-Time: Tuesday, January 25, 2000 at 15:36:02 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch are German
Surnames of interest: Countryman, Zink, Ludwick, Tripp, Thompson, Myers, Davis
Comments: Love the page--this is most helpful information and you have it arranged in a way that will make it easier for me to explain about Countryman to other folks. I'll just send them on to you. Many Thanks!! -- Dorothy
Email address: djc196115@aol.com
Guest: Eileen Rimmer, Kintnersville, PA.
Date-Time: Monday, January 24, 2000 at 19:58:09 (CST)
Page visited: Visited many of the pages; it's a great site!
Surnames of interest: Vollmer, Fulmer, Worman, Frankenfield, Saeger
Comments: I am looking for information about Heinrich Worman who arrived from Wiesendangen on the ship "Mary" on June 28th, 1735. His brother, Johannes came over at the same time. Johannes settled first in Franconia Twp., Montgomery County, Pa. I believe that Heinrich settled in Lehigh/Northampton. I also am looking for information about Abraham Worman who married Anna Maria Saeger.
Email address: rmmr1@erols.com
Guest: Jim A. Hess, Bartlesville, Oklahoma
Date-Time: Monday, January 24, 2000 at 09:49:59 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchnet Gen. Home Page
Surnames of interest: Tippie, Hess, Buck, Jolley
Comments: My first American born ancestor, Uriah Tippie, settled on the Lehigh river, was caught in a nightime flood (1787, I think) in which he and his wife lost their two children. The flood was thereafter called The Tippie Flood - and was used to compare later floods- until a larger flood occurred about 60 years later. He served in the Rev. War and was granted Warrant Land in Ohio. I'm just beginning my search for the other surnames listed above.
Email address: aljhess@ionet.net
Guest: Doris May Stegemeyer Decker Karabinus; Los Angeles
Date-Time: Monday, January 24, 2000 at 09:39:29 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Stegemeyer, Decker, Wood, Shawver, Longenecker, Almanrode/Almonrode, Karabinus
Comments: Thanks for your consideration in making this information available.
Email address: DKarabinus@aol.com
Guest: Sheryl Reed, Elmira, NY
Date-Time: Monday, January 24, 2000 at 07:57:38 (CST)
Page visited: PA Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Bellinger, Breese, Brooks, Brookman, Bush, Dann, Gopp, Shaffer, Walker
Comments: Very interesting article, brings "some" closure to my misunderstanding of PA Dutch. I was always told I was part PA Dutch from my Fathers side (Bellinger), along with German descent. Thank you for the clarity!
Email address: luv_bears_all@yahoo.com (or) luv-bears-all@webtv.net
Guest: David Armstrong, Florissant, MO.
Date-Time: Sunday, January 23, 2000 at 11:46:18 (CST)
Page visited: P A Dutch Are German Not Dutch
Surnames of interest: Hesler, Rendelman, Lattica or Ladika, Gelso
Comments: Hesler is the only name that I KNOW is German. I haven't begun researching these names yet, but shall soon. I shall return to your site!
Email address: dwarmstr@swbell.net
Guest: Loraine Keller Prutzman, Danville, PA
Date-Time: Saturday, January 22, 2000 at 16:19:27 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Keller,Walp, Wolfinger, Stroh, Risewick, Lueder, Sorber, Shaffer, Garinger, Hess
Comments: All these appear to have Northampton, Monroe or Berks Co. origins, later some migrating to Luzerne Co.,PA. You have explained the naming patterns very clearly, thanks.
Email address: lkp@sunlink.net
Guest: Whitney
Date-Time: Friday, January 21, 2000 at 09:08:50 (CST)
Page visited: 18th Century PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: German Customs and Traditions
Comments: I love the site!!! I found lots of information on German Customs for my report!!
Email address: whitney54@gurlmail.com
Guest: Keith Curtis Kerchner ("Casey")
Date-Time: Thursday, January 20, 2000 at 23:01:32 (CST)
Page visited: probably all of them
Surnames of interest:
Comments: sorry, wife's shift keys seldom work, we e-mailed last summer...have not verified great grandpa's benjamin "f"'s middle name, born around 1850, died around 1953, most or entire life around walnut/wyanet illinois, bureau county. did get a lead on a relative who may have the family archives. many of the 2nd, 3rd, etc cousins i have met only once or twice, if at all. we were not close, except for funerals. saw the coat of arms, does not look anything like the "kerchner family newsletter' coat of arms my father showed me several years ago, which was probably the same as the "smith" family, etc. enough dribble for now,,,would like to here from other kerchners, especially in illinois. kc9ih@usa.net
Email address: kc9ih@usa.net
Guest: JOSEPH ADAM KERCHNER, MENDOTA,ILLINOIS
Date-Time: Thursday, January 20, 2000 at 15:41:37 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy home page
Surnames of interest: Kerchner, Joseph
Comments: I was just trying to find a little out about my self.I don't even know where I originate from I live in Mendota Il and I lived here my whole life and i don't know any kerchners besides around here
Email address: kerchner@theramp.net
Guest: Roger W. Trimble 601 Walls St. New Castle Pa.
Date-Time: Thursday, January 20, 2000 at 15:13:18 (CST)
Page visited: All
Surnames of interest: Sechler,Fusselman.
Comments: Really enjoyable going through all this history.
Email address: RTrimble6@excite.com
Guest: Mary Waters Cooper, Lambert, MS
Date-Time: Thursday, January 20, 2000 at 14:45:09 (CST)
Page visited: PA German Nicknames
Surnames of interest: Perchment, Parchment
Comments: There was a Nicholas Parchment (Perchment) who paid taxes in PA in 1773. Would like to know more about him and his family. I am decended from his son, John Parchment.
Email address: mwc@panola.com
Guest: Ashley Emerson, Nebraska
Date-Time: Wednesday, January 19, 2000 at 17:53:34 (CST)
Page visited: MSN
Surnames of interest: Ashley, June, Emerson, Sarah, Christeen, Morton
Comments: Will you mail me when you come up with a nickname for me
Email address: a_emerson2005@excite.com
Guest: C Seigel,Palto Alto. P A
Date-Time: Tuesday, January 18, 2000 at 18:56:12 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Sack. Seigel
Comments: I'm trying to find more information on both of my grandfathers one for certain came from a round Quakertown his name was Calvin Sack B 1882--D 1995. The other John B Seigel my Paternal grandfather. Would appreciate any help. C Seigel
Email address: chas37@ptd.net
Guest: Gwen Grant Bryan, Morrow, GA
Date-Time: Thursday, January 13, 2000 at 15:27:45 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, PA German Naming Customs
Surnames of interest: Brooks, Bryan, Burkhalter, Gangwer, Grant, Hammond, Johnson, Longacre, Posey, Washington, Weaver
Comments: I found this site to be very interesting and informative. Thank you for maintaining this site. I look forward to coming back to it many times.
Email address: ggbryan821@aol.com
Guest: Louis G. Riddle, Sr., Knoxville, TN
Date-Time: Tuesday, January 11, 2000 at 18:16:53 (CST)
Page visited: 18th Century PA German Name Spelling, etc.
Surnames of interest: Riddle
Comments: Very interested in translation of German Script signature on will.
Email address: RidRed@aol.com
Guest: Merritt W. (Red) Barthel New Smyrna Beach Fl
Date-Time: Monday, January 10, 2000 at 15:08:41 (CST)
Page visited: all of them
Surnames of interest: Checking out the name Barthel.
Comments: I am originally from the Lehigh Valley area. My grandfather moved there from Germany and settled on the south mountain. I am trying to obtain information the the U.S. census and I need to find the Enumaration Districts for that area. I found the map that shows the districts in 1914; however, it is hard to read it. I'd appreciate any help to locate a source for a good ED map. Thanks Red Barthel
Email address: MBar771469@aol.com
Guest: Allan L. Karchner, Middletown, Ohio
Date-Time: Sunday, January 09, 2000 at 22:39:27 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Brother, Ted Karchner, alredy registered in your guest book, is researching the family name. He advised us of this web site
Comments: What an interesting web site. Will be visiting it often. Chuck full of great info! Your work is appreciated.
Email address: Karchners@aol.com
Guest: CRYSTAL BUDNIK
Date-Time: Sunday, January 09, 2000 at 12:18:00 (CST)
Page visited: PA GERMAN NAMING CUSTOMS
Surnames of interest: BOYKE,SCHROEDER
Comments: I JUST CAN'T SEEM TO FIND WHAT I'M LOOKING FOR
Email address: cleo@voyager.net
Guest: Ruth Frey-Lupfer, Cumberland Co. PA
Date-Time: Sunday, January 09, 2000 at 08:23:10 (CST)
Page visited: All
Surnames of interest: Frey,Tenny,Keck,Gibson
Comments: What a wonderful job you've done. Thanks for get the helpful hints on getting started.
Email address: rl0602@earthlink.net
Guest: Stephen Chalmers Kerchner
Date-Time: Friday, January 07, 2000 at 16:41:33 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page
Surnames of interest: Kerchner
Comments: Excellent!
Email address: sckerchner@highlandil.com
Guest: Ted W Karchner, Jr., Middletown OH
Date-Time: Friday, January 07, 2000 at 08:27:33 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Genealogy Home Page, PA German Naming Customs, etc.
Surnames of interest: Kerchner, Box, Koser, Fetterman, Boosembark, Limestahl (Leimenstoll), Helvern (Helvering)
Comments: I was delighted to find your Kerchner website. Benjamin Kerchner (Karchner) is my 2nd Great Grandfather, d. 1896 Hessville, Sandusky, OH. My first Great Grandfather is William Filmore Karchner 1852-1927, d. Fremont, Sandusky, OH.,sp. Maryetta Boosembark. My Grandfather is Birt Earl Karchner 1879-1950, d. Fremont, Sandusky, OH, sp. Olive Limestahl (Liemenstoll). My father is Ted W Karchner, Sr. 1907-1983, d. Lebanon, Warren, OH, sp. Dorothy Helvern.
Email address: tedkarchner@msn.com
Guest: D Farrell, Kingman, Arizona
Date-Time: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 at 23:03:01 (CST)
Page visited: Kerchner Geneaology, PA German Naming Customs, etc
Surnames of interest: ZIETZ, BECKER, WETZEL, KRAEMER, WISNER, ZANDER
Comments: Wonderful job preserving your family's lineage. My family lines range from Germany, Pennsylvania, North Dakota, Minnesota, Florida and who knows where else. Have not been able to locate much info on my family lineage. Great job and enjoyed the music.
Email address: dddkkk@ctaz.com
Guest: Rieck Bridgewater,NJ
Date-Time: Wednesday, January 05, 2000 at 19:01:59 (CST)
Page visited:
Surnames of interest: Herling,Heberling,Frantz,Schaffer
Comments: Love your Music
Email address: Lchairwoman@AOL.com
Guest: Nicholas Arnold, Columbus, OH
Date-Time: Saturday, January 01, 2000 at 11:20:05 (CST)
Page visited: Frederick Kerchner's Gravestone
Surnames of interest: Wetzel, Krietzburg, Griesemer, Truckenmiller, Shmuckbrucken, Kerchner, Fetterman, Hufft
Comments: Great site, thanks for making it available. I going back now to do some more searching around! I am a seventh great grandson of Adam Kerchner.
Email address: ngarnold@yahoo.com
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