Posted on: Pennsylvania Dutch Queries Board URL: http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/USA/Pa/Dutch?read=4885 Surname: Ridenour, Damewood, Friddle, Tanner, Underhill ------------------------- Tom, here is some information from Mo Ridenour collection. I also have a database with over 12000 names. I hope this will help. There are several other sites. I have the Ridenours back to Alsace/Lorraine and Gondiswil, Switserland. Thanks Ed Ridenour Updated 16012000 This database of RIDENOUR family members is intended to be freely shared with other RIDENOUR family researchers to provide assistance in our common goal of researching the orgin of the RIDENOUR family. Researched and compiled by; MELVIN OTHO "MO" RIDENOUR 13182 SW 42 ST Davie, FL 33330 [954] 452-9668 Email moride@bellsouth.net Access to the database is also available through; ELMER EUGENE RIDENOUR 19355 Lexington Lane Redding, CA 96003 [530] 275-1070 Email EERidenour@mindspring.com http://eeridenour.home.mindspring.com/ridenour.htm [A ZIP [Decondenser] is required for downloading these] Send new, updated or corrected information to; MELVIN OTHO "MO" RIDENOUR 13182 SW 42 ST Davie, FL 33330 [954] 452-9668 Email moride@bellsouth.net Symbols, Abbreviations and Explanation. >=on or after; <=on or before aka=also known as; @=about; *=born; [*][q]=natural =buried; q=baptised/christened; ch=child/children; conf.=confirmed; CQ=seek you; +=died; d/o=daughter of; dy=died young or stillborn; h/o=husband of; Lv OK=lived/lives in Okla; oo=married; nc=name changed; nm=never married; nn=not named/not known; noi=no other information; np=not proven; Occ=occupation; s/o=son of; Z=source w/o=wife of; wd=widow/widower/divorce zzz=updated after 01012000 Computer search locator spelling= [Brummet]; [Pifer]; [Shaffer]; [Schmid]; [Schnabely]; Underlined/#*=Ancestoral line; Hans/Johan/Johann has been dropped as first name; 26091920 Tulsa Co. OK=26 Sept 1920 Tulsa Co. Okla; Arr US 03091739 Phila. PA-Rotterdam, Robert & Alice=arrived in America 3 Sept 1739 at Phila, PA, from Rotterdam, on the ship Robert and Alice; *********************************************************************** Francis V. Ridenour *00001848 Smithsburg, Wash. Co. MD+dy, s/o Daniel Reitenauer-Elizabeth Brown; CQ-1a [ [Cavetown, 7th Dist] Smithsburg Cemetery, Smithsburg, Wash. Co. MD] [Z-A15; Z-A28; Z-A49] Mark Ridenour *00001845 Smithsburg. Wash. Co. MD, s/o Daniel Reitenauer-Elizabeth Brown; [one CQ-1a record lists name as Harth] [Z-A15; Z-A28; Z-A49] Martha Ridenour *00001834 Smithsburg, Wash. Co. MD, d/o Daniel Reitenauer-Elizabeth Brown; CQ-1a [Z-A15; Z-A28; Z-A49] Euphemia E. Ridenour *15081833 Wash. Co. MD, d/o Daniel Reitenauer-Elizabeth Brown; [Z-A15; CQ-1a Z-A49] Francis V. Ridenour *00001848 Smithsburg, Wash. Co. MD+dy, s/o Daniel Reitenauer-Elizabeth Brown; CQ-1a [ [Cavetown, 7th Dist] Smithsburg Cemetery, Smithsburg, Wash. Co. MD] [Z-A15; Z-A28; Z-A49] SOURCES ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Z-A15=Charles William RIDENOUR, "The Ridenour History, 1650-1990", 2003 Maplewood Drive, Hagerstown, MD, 21740 Z-A28=Kenneth Ray RIDENOUR, "Researchers Guide To The Ridenour and Related Families", 2048 W. Cambridge, Phoenix, AZ, 85009-1950 aussies@primenet.com Z-A49=International Genealogical Index, Mar 1992, LDS, Salt Lake City, UT [Note; some sources list relatives]