Hello everybody, I have just joined the list, so before I bombard you with my request, please allow me to introduce myself. My name is Alan Leighton, and though I was born and raised in California, I have spent more than half my life in Germany seeking my fortune as a symphony orchestra musician. I was bitten in my college days by the genealogy bug, and a shocking number of decades later, I find it still to be a challenging and rewarding pursuit. Despite my English family name, a good part of my ancestors came from Germany, and some of them immigrated to Pennsylvania. I am at home in both the English and German languages, but I find that old-style Fraktur handwriting very difficult to decipher. (Well, to be honest, I have copies of some old Revolutionary War pension files, and that old American handwriting isn't easy either!!) My current project is a database on the Homrighausen name. I have Marie Catharina HOMRIGHAUSEN, born 1721, marrying the Reverend Johann Philipp LEYDICH on 26 May 1744, and emigrating to Philadelphia in 1748. They settled in Montgomery Co., PA, where the Rev. Leydich achieved a certain amount of fame. He is buried in the Leydich cemetery. I have a number of questions --- 1. What is the status of the Leydich cemetery? Is it abandoned and overgrown, or is it still fairly well kept? 2. Are the German origins of Johann Philipp LEYDICH and his wife known? I have some second-hand source material here, but if everybody already knows all about it, I wouldn't want to bore you with it. 3. Can anybody shed light on the husbands and families of Johan Philipp Leydich's two Homrighausen sisters-in-law who emigrated with them to Pennsylvania? According to one source, one married Andreas SASSAMAN (probably originally Sassmannshausen), and the other married Caspar ACHENBACH (Aschenbach?), but that source has a few inaccuracies in it, so I am not sure about this. If you are interested in or know anything about these topics, I would be grateful to hear from you, either through the list or not (whatever you prefer). Thanks in advance, and best wishes to all, Alan Leighton Bochum, Germany