There was an intermarriage between one of the most important Felicity and Lewis Twnsp,Brown Co German's [Bolender's and in-laws Shinkles, and the most important in the Milford,Clermont- Hamilton Co, Christian Waldschmidt.. The lattr d 1814,but his stone house on RT 126survivies where his mills drew a settlement of Germans,that spread into Goshen and Miami Twnsp's,if not sw Warren Co. Waldschmidt's 1st wife was a Bolender,and his father,Rev Waldschmidt's church records of the Reading,Pa-Lebanon,Pa,Heidleberg,Pa region survive,in print,and perhaps on-line. Have to walk dog. O'K' Wm Penn recruited Germans for his colony of Pa. Counties like Lancaster,Lebanon,and Berks were- are largley German in many neighborhoods. 1729 Pa [?] Pa started keeping ships rosters of in-coming German's ,and they are on-line. German churches often kept far better records than English. And many survive,in-part on-line. There is a Brushy Valley in Centre Co,mid Pa where many migrating to Clermont spent a few years. Don't waste much time on that 5-15 years, unless you need something. Penn State U area of mid Pa. German's are more likely found where the land has hills. Watch for multiple spellings Polender=Bolender=Bolander, Vogelen=Vogelei=Fagaly=Fagley Schenkel= Shinkle you get the idea. Leever has multiple,but I forget what. This makes using search engines harder,but not impossible. Even rootsweb. FEGLEY-L-request@rootsweb.com BOLENDER-L-requst@rootsweb.com SUBSCRIBE Becklehymer=Picklesimer=BEHYMER=B'HYMER Book on the latter is Picklesimer. And "The Fagaly family in America" . Library may have just the book you need,but you are searching for wrong spelling. Never,never,never say our name is spelled Smith,and the Smyth's down the road are not related,because grandma told you so. Great! Computer locked at this point when kitten jumped on it,,and "locked" I couldn't save this Email, "but' Juno.com now has an "autosave" feature that reposted it after I rebooted. My German chain of thought is gone,however. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.