Thank you so very much, Darlene, Along with your reply I received an answer to my "stone wall" query. There continue,s to be a Landis Family Reunion in the Thompsontown area each year, usually in Sept. I have not as yet received a reminder or place. What is so interesting to me is just WHY did a Number of Mennonite,s leave Eastern PA. "around" the same time for Juniata Co, PA: The Benner.a were another family to leave, for example? Ernest

Ernest and others, Not only did the Mennonites migrate from SE Pennsylvania westward across the Susquehanna into the Juniata Valley around the turn of the 18th-19th Centuries, so did the Scots-Irish Presbyterians, the Lutherans, the German Reformed, and other farmers make the move. Conditions were becoming crowded among the German farmers in SE Penna. and the good limestone farmland preferred by German farmers was much less expensive west of the Susquehanna. The same migration westward sent German farm families across the Susquehanna into the rich farmland of the Penns Creek and White Deer-Buffalo Creek watersheds. Nelson R. Sulouff ////////////////////////////////////// ----- Original Message ----- From: Daniel E Weinhold To: PALANCAS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Friday, July 21, 2006 7:18 PM Subject: Re: [PALANCAS] Landis (Snip) What is so interesting to me is just WHY did a Number of Mennonite,s leave Eastern PA. "around" the same time for Juniata Co, PA: The Benner.a were another family to leave, for example? Ernest