Bob Pace wrote: > Hi gtp, > > I'm the Bob Pace from Luzerne County. I'm interested to know our > connection. > Best regards, > Bob Pace Hi Bob, Luzerne County, a coal mining area. Staffordshire descendents there had a group reunion some time back. PA. has many towns with names indicating origins of early settlers back in UK and Europe, especially Wales. Not sure where German Valley is. All this may tell us today enough people from same European areas settled together, their origin names re-established as town names. Maybe a good place to look. PACE must have been popular enough, where your ancestors settled for them to adopt it's spelling. William Penn from http://www.familytreemagazine.com/article/now-what-welsh-tract > The Welsh tract is a 40,000-acre area west of Philadelphia that was heavily settled by Welsh Quakers. The original settlers unsuccessfully negotiated with William Penn in 1684 to make the tract a separate county whose government would use the Welsh language. This happened in Ohio > http://www.venedocia.org/ohiomag.html > VENEDOCIA, Ohio - A Welsh Town - Congregation founded 1848 - pre 1895 all church services in the village were exclusively in the Welsh language. Many descendents of the NJ-Ontario Pace family have written to me over the years. The story of travel and activity of their ancestors is interesting; it intersects with my ancestors. Much of the story is at http://www.pacefamilyhistory.info/fredpace GTPace