Following is a list of references that have been shared by subscribers over the past couple years. Some are devoted solely to KEIM (various spellings included); others, contain sections/chapters on the surname. 1. "ACCOUNT OF THE KEIM FAMILY" by Henry May KEIM. Publ. privately in Reading, PA in 1874. 2. "The Keim and Allied Families in America and Europe", December 1898 - Oct 1900., by DeB. Randolph Keim, editor. Harrisburg Publishing Co, Reading, PA. (AKA Keim Monthly) 3. "Annals Of The Oley Valley in Berks County, PA: Over Two Hundred Years of Local History of an American Canaan" by Rev. Philip C. Croll. Reading, PA.; Reading Eagle Press, 1926. 4. "Kimes Family History and Information (Kymes, Keim, Koyme, Kaim, Keym, Kiehm)", by V.J. Van Cleave. Major contributors: Jessie Peak, Carol Johnson, Jan Little, Elaine Roddy, George Kimes, Margaret Harris Shutt, and Karen Jorgensen. 5. "KEIM GENEALOGY: 1598 TO PRESENT TIME" by Mary Leah Kime Pratz. 1967. On LDS microfilm : #547537. 6. "Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks County, Pennsylvania" compiled by Morton L. Montgomery. J.H. Beers & Co., Chicago, 1909. 7. "Record and History of the Ancestors of the Keim Clan, AD 1620" a manuscript written 1928 by Josiah Keim. 8. "KEIM ANCESTORS FROM A.D. 1020?" by Kenneth E. Koch, published in the Journal of the Berks County Genealogical Society. 9. "Keim Family" - G.E.P. Wanger, Book II (Montgomery County Historical Society, PA) 10. "History of Virginia", publ. by the American History Society, 1924, Vol VI, pg. 40. 11. "Richey-Hampson-Kimes-Lear-Lindsay families of Scotland - PA - IL - KS - TN" with some related lines : by James Richey. 1988. 12. "Maxwell history and genealogy" by Florence Wilson Houston, Laura Cowan Blaine, Ella Dunn Mellette. 1916. 13. "Gathering of the Clan" by Bess Leora Kime Baker, San Francisco : Cloister, 1940. 14. Historical Review of Berks Co, 1955, Historical Society of Berks. 15. "Descendants of Jacob Hochstetler" by Harvey Hostetler, Elgin, IL : Brethren Publishing House, 1912. (Contains many of the descendants of Nicholas KEIM and second wife, Fanny Hochstetler) If you know of others, please share the information with the group. Thanks.