Hi Karen, I'd be interested in what you may have on the Best family. I have bits and pieces of Floe Best Straitwell's Wilhelm Best family history, unfinished, and copies of her notes and correspondence that sometimes confuses me. Did she ever finish her work? Regards.. Marilyn [email protected] << Some of the names I have a realtionship in my ancestory in Jefferson County are: Best, Cornmesser, Syphrit, Deemer, Beam, Smith, Shaffer, Culp, Yohe, Sykes, Mays or Maize, Dickey, Moore, Straightwell,Rhoades or Rhodes or Rhoad (this name is spelled differently by many family members, Howlett and many more through marriage.I am trying to post some of the documents on the site but it is taking me a while. I have some marriages started and much more to go. Counties I find these families from include Westmoreland, Clearfield, Centre, Northampton, Bucks, Armstrong. I have found them moving to such places as Illinois, California, Kansas, Oregon and many others. Most came from the Eastern part of Pa to Westmoreland which was considered the west at that time. Documentation shows many on the same ships, churches, cemeteries and other early documents. Thank You Karen Western Pa >>