Privately Published Family Histories and Genealogies...

Privately Published Family Histories and Genealogies

• AULT- "Valentine Ault, Four Generations of Ault Descendants" by Bill Kincaid.
  
  Library bound leather on 60 pound paper, 589 Pages of family history and source citations, detailed index to over 3000 family members.
  
  Cost $60 + $5 postage and handling.
  
  Please make checks payable to Bill Kincaid
  and return order form to:
  
  Bill Kincaid
  57 Pepper Road
  Murphysboro, Illinois 62966
  
  aultbook@hotmail.com
  
  
• BILLET-   "Billet and Related Families of York, Lancaster and Dauphin Counties, Pennsylvania 1751-1997" by Donald F. Billet and Marie Billet Ellis
  ISBN 0-9638721-1-7
  Published by author, 1998 ( printed by Gateway Press, Baltimore)
  
  The 6" by 9" hard cover book of 400 pages has an Every Name Index and includes over 2600 descendants of Kraft Billet, the 1751 immigrant who settled in Hellam Township, York County, Pa. Associated families include Sipe, Lehman, Druck, Dellinger, Blasser, Brenneman, Hartman, Holler, Newcomer and numerous others.
  
  Cost $37.00 postage included.
  Order from dbillet@bellsouth.net
  
  
• BOOK - "Dody's Book"
  
  I have a book called Dody's Book which tells the story of my search for the Book Family in eleven trips to Juniata and Lancaster County Pennsylvania. I am selling the book and a 2 CD set for $16.95 plus $5.50 postage. The Family History CD (works with Family tree Maker) contains approximately 2800 names descending from Michael Buch, who came to America in 1767. The second CD is of pictures set to music of cemeteries, historical nature, people, etc. Michael is my gggg grandfather.
  
  
  Dody Book Coleman
  
• 508 3rd Avenue
  
• P.O. Box 202
  
• Livermore, Iowa 50558-0202
  
  dickndee@trvnet.net
  
• BROWN-  "The History of the Philip Brown Family of Tulpehocken Valley"
  
  This 750 page 8 1/2 x 11 hard cover book traces the ancestry from the early 1700's to 1994. It starts with the landing in N.Y. to Tulpehocken Twp., Berks Co., Pa. tracing Johan Philip Braun and his descendants. It contains 18,000 every name index, birth and death dates, baptism, marriages, for most family members and spouses. It also includes family photos and biographies.
  
  Cost is $45.00 plus $5.00 shipping, plus 6% sales tax for PA residents. Write: Brown Family Reunion, P.O. Box 705, Richland, PA 17087. e-mail: smbrown@redrose.net
  
  
• DELLINGER- "The Chronicles and Genealogy of the Jacob Dellinger Family of York County, Pennsylvania" by Donald F. Billet and Edward A. Dellinger
  ISBN 0-9638721-0-9
  Published by authors, 1993
  
  This 6" by 9" hard cover book is in two parts. The first part is a historical based narrative which describes the first Dellinger family to settle in York  County, Pa. Jacob, the immigrant arrived in 1733 from Oberacker, Baden. Nearly 1,000 descendants are identified in the second part of the book. An All Name Index includes the related families of Billet, Gohn, Miller, Poff, Sipe, Otstot and many others.
  
  Cost $45.00
  
  Order from: Edward Dellinger, 4792 Fahringer Drive, York, Pa 17406 or dbillet@bellsouth.net
  
• The Fabian genealogy book, Fabian Families of Bucks County, Pennsylvania, was published in December 1995 by M. H. Fabian.
  
  For more information - http://www.gamepuzzles.com/Fabian/fabian.htm
  
  
  
• FRYSINGER- "Pennsylvania German Ancestors, by Anne Frysinger Shifflet, PhD".
  
  Dr. Frysinger tells the stories of 60 German and Swiss families who emigrated to Pennsylvania in the 18th century and made their homes in Lancaster, York, Berks, Dauphin and Lebanon Counties. Primary sources were used to trace their steps in Pennsylvania.
  
  It is a family history of Frysinger-May, Schaffner-Fackler, Royer-Hertzler, Keller-Rudy and related families. Each surname chapter carries the family down through the generation in which a daughter marries into the Frysinger family tree.
  
  Fully documented, over 3000 source notes
  Hard cover, 8½ x 11, 566 pages, illustrations, everyname index
  $46 postpaid
  
  Please send your U.S. mail address to ShifAnne@aol.com for a flyer which lists all the surname chapters and gives additional information about this new 1999 book.
  
  
• GETZ-  "The Descendants of Johann Balthaser Getz and Mary Margretha Getz" by Shirley Campbell Ramos and Patricia Campbell Kratz.  
  
  This book details the arrival of the first Getz in America in 1753 and his employment as teacher in Northampton County Pennsylvania. They were the parents of George Conrad Getz and Johann George Getz. Described are the families of George Conrad and Johann George and their many descendants as the family spread from Pennsylvania to Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa, Kansas, Texas, Colorado and California as well as other states.
  
  Included are full sections on the authors related families with the surnames of Weiss, Philman, Kurtz and Campbell. There are also listed many families with the names of Altemose, Borger, Burger, Carroll, Frable, Kreger, Kresge, Mikesell, Serfass, Shupp, Silfies, and Smale.
  
  The book includes an every name index and can be a useful tool in research of this large family.
  
  COST: $32.00 (Post paid)
  ORDER FROM:
  
  PAT KRATZ
  2801 E.P. True Pkwy. #101
  West Des Moines, IA 50265
  
  
• GLATTFELDER/CLODFELTER- "The Early Glattfelder Family in America: An Overview" by Dr. Charles H. Glatfelter, Professor Emeritus of History, Gettysburg College.  
  
  This booklet is a must have for anyone doing Glattfelder geneology.  It gives an historical overview of the beginnings of the Casper and Johan Peter Glattfelder families and the first couple of generations in America.  This book truly places leaves on the Glattfelder genealogy tree.  This 59 page booklet can be purchased for $4.00 including postage by sending remittence to:
  
  The Casper Glattfelder Association
  c/o Bernadette H. Glatfelter
  951 Chestnut St.
  Columbia, PA 17512-1315
  Phone: (717) 684-2604
  
  
• MERKEY- "The Merkey Family of Bethel and Tulpehocken Townships" by Sandy Kauffman, published in 1990.
  
  These families are mostly Brethren. It is 285 pages and has an every name index. Some of the family names of interest included are Merkey, Balsbaugh, Brightbill, Bross, Edris, Frantz, Kline, Meyer,Sherman, Wenger. It is avaliable for $30.00 p.p.. Email Sandy Kauffman at SKauff5096@aol.com for more information.
  
  
• NORNHOLD -"Nornholds in America" - compiled by Richard T. Nornhold, Jr. Published in May 1999.
  
  A 6" by 9" laminated soft cover book of 140 pages covers the origins of this family in the Lancaster, Lebanon, Dauphin County Area of Pennsylvania, and their migration to other regions of the country. The book covers all known branches of this family in America today. Major related families include: Ginder, Heisey, Hoerner, Hoffer, Hoffman, Hurley, and Sattazahn. Cost $12.50 ppd. Order from: Richard Nornhold at rtnorn@sunlink.net .
  
  
• PFAFFENERGER - "From Germany to Antietam, The early history of the Pfaffenberger family by Thomas Poffenberger." 2nd Edition. Published by Xlibris in 2003. 339 pages (www.xlibris.com/bookstore, 888-795-4274 or Amazon.com). The second edition has been edited and new research added. The book traces the family of Johann Georg Pfaffenberger from a village in Germany to their arrival in Philadelphia in 1733 through the French and Indian War, the Revolution and down to the Civil War at the battle of Antietam in Maryland, fought on Poffenberger farms. All the various spellings of Pfaffenberger in this country can be traced to this couple.
  
  
• QUEENER-  Yet to be published by Paul LeMaster.
  
  There is book on the Queener Families of Tennessee and elsewhere in the making.  Paul LeMaster, noted family historian, is compiling the book right now.  If you have questions or additional information on this family write:
  
  Paul Lemaster
  643 DeArmond Road
  Kingston, TN 37763
  
  
• SHULTZ- Yet to be published by Diane Humphries
  
  I will be publishing a book on the Shultz family in June. It includes some Van Cleave, Van Meter, Rhoads, and Talley branches, as well as Du Bois. The main point of origin for the families was Somerset County, Pennsylvania. The books will be $30 each, and will include one link that I have managed to trace back to Adam and Eve, through Charlemagne.
  
  For more information Email Diane at jayhawk20@geocities.com.
  
  
• STONER- "Stoner Brethren" by Richard R. Weber. Published 1993.
  
  John Stoner (ca.1705-1769) and his children, Catherine Arnold, Mary Ann Price, John; Jacob, David, Agnes Arnold, and Abraham, have left an astonishing trail of documents in Colonial Pennsylvania and Maryland.
  
  Most Brethren Stoners belong to this family.  Verified by extensive primary evidence.  More than 100 Pennsylvania and Maryland records before the American Revolution.  Over 6000 indexed names, with many allied families, including: Albaugh, Arnold, Baker, Beery, Bowman, Brower, Brown, Burger, Cover, Crumpacker, Danner, Diehl, Engel, Englar, Fisher, Flora, Funk, Garber, Gish, Good, Graybill, Hess, Hoover, Hyre, Johnson, Klein, Landis, Lightner, Long, Miller, Myers, Neff, Newcomer, Noffsinger, Pfoutz, Plain, Rhoads, Rinehart, Roop, Royer, Sayler, Smith, Snively, Stouffer, Stover, Wampler, Weybright, and Wine.
  
  638 acid-free, 7" x 10" pages, and premium hard cover
  $45.50 Post Paid (+ $2.13 Sales Tax in Maryland)
  Richard R. Weber
  10715 Moosberger Ct., Columbia, MD 21044
  
  
• TRAUTMAN- "Trautman/Troutman Family, 1598-1998", compiled by Eric H. Troutman - 1998.
  
  This 900 page book has  information on over 20,000 related people. Brothers Hieronimus and Johannes Trautmann from Schriesheim, Germany, came to America in 1743 and settled in Pennsylvania.   Most of the information found in the book is on the descendants of the younger brother Johannes who lived in Berks County, PA.
  
  The book is available for $59.00, shipping included from:
  
  Eric H. Troutman
  252 E 5th St.
  Bernville, PA 19506.
  Home phone: 1-610-488-7855.
  E - mail: etroutman@juno.com
  
  
• MICHAEL WEIDLER: HIS ANTECEDENTS AND DESCENDANTS, by Eliabeth Meredith.
  
  This book traces the proven ancestry of Michael Weidler, 1727 immigrant to Lancaster, Pennsylvania, to 1569 in Switzerland. Also identified are thousands of his descendants. Some allied families: Baer, Bard, Brenner, Buch, Carpenter, Derr, Glatz, Grebill, Gundacker, Hartman, Huber, Klein, Kreider, Lein, Meyers/Myers, Offner, Roland, Rudy, Skelly and Wiebrecht/Waybright. Author will verify presence of your family. Research is fully documented and book contains an every name index.
  
  412 pp. 8 1/2" x 11," hardbound (cloth). $45 postpaid. Check or money order.
  
  Order from:
  Elizabeth Meredith
  1720 South Gessner Dr.
  Houston, TX 77063-1118
  elizmere@ev1.net
  
  

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