I share Kathy's interest in the Bingaman, Hufnagle and Reigel surnames. I have a lot on Frederick Bingaman and his wife Maria Christina Hufnagle and their daughter Catherine who married John Riegle. I addition I am also very interested in John Blatt/Platt and his sons Peter and Michael as well as the Keysers. All were in Snyder County in the late 1700's. regards ... gary grove

I'm looking for information on the family of George Martz and Rachel Keller. I obtained Henry Martz's Civil War penisons and it lists his place of birth as being Adamsburg which was in then Union County, now Snyder County. I would like any information on either George or Rachels' families. 1. GEORGE2 MARTZ was born Abt. 1808 in PA, and died Unknown in Cambria County, PA. He married RACHEL KELLER April 14, 1839 in by Rev J. P. Shindel, Jr./ Union/ Snyder County, PA. Children of GEORGE MARTZ and RACHEL KELLER are: i. THOMAS3 MARTZ. ii. THEODORE MARTZ. iii. SOPHIA MARTZ, b. May 12, 1824; d. April 30, 1904; m. MORRIS GEORGE, June 18, 1852. iv. HENRY MARTZ, b. December 24, 1836, Union Cty, PA; d. Unknown; m. SARAH FESTER. v. ALFRED MARTZ, b. Abt. 1842. vi. SARINDA MARTZ, b. September 23, 1843, Union Cty, PA; d. 1919, Cambria County, PA; m. PAUL N. GEORGE, March 04, 1860, St. Aloysius Catholic Church, Summit, Cambria County, PA. vii. RUFUS O. MARTZ, b. Abt. 1845; d. December 05, 1913, Glen Campbell, Indiana County, PA; m. ELIZABETH A. GEORGE. viii. ANNA MARTZ, b. Abt. 1855; d. Unknown.

I'm sorry to use the list for this, but I've lost addresses in a mail crash and this is the only one I could find again. Logan, could you contact me please? For any new list members, I'm researching Hackenberg, Kratzer, Will, Riegel, Wertz, Decker, Hoffman, Kline, Kuhns, Wagner, Bingaman, Goss, and Hufnagel. Kathy

Galen and Nels, and everyone else who saw my plea for help: Thank you for your suggestion to "View" and then to check "wrap long lines". I just did that, and hope that it is the solution to a very frustrating problem. Sincerely appreciate your help! Barb

This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------36EE153568DC Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Allright everyone, I give up. Why do some messages appear in this elongated format? Logan is not the only one one - there have been others here and there on other lists, so stretched out that you can't read it without a great deal of clicking (which I don't usually bother with). I've even tried printing it out both ways, but never get anything more than the end section of *some* lines. I'm not up on the technical end of computers, so would appreciate someone explaining!! Thanks, Barb Logan - sorry for using you as an example, but you were handy. --------------36EE153568DC Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Received: from fp-1.rootsweb.com (unverified [207.113.233.233]) by tempest.nac.net (Rockliffe SMTPRA 2.1.6) with ESMTP id <[email protected]> for <[email protected]>; Sun, 02 Aug 1998 07:27:17 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by fp-1.rootsweb.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id EAA04323; Sun, 2 Aug 1998 04:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Resent-Date: Sun, 2 Aug 1998 04:27:08 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <[email protected]> X-Sender: [email protected] X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Light Version 3.0.5 (16) Date: Sun, 02 Aug 1998 07:18:34 Old-To: [email protected] From: Asta <[email protected]> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by fp-1.rootsweb.com id EAA03816 Subject: [PASNYDER-L] Cemetery Search Story Resent-Message-ID: <"jjoYc.A.lCB.K0Ex1"@fp-1.rootsweb.com> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/210 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] Hi, gang. First, I want to express my appreciation to all of you who sent surname queries for our new surname query page at the Snyder County PAGenWeb site. Thanks especially to most of you who took the time to read the instructions on how to submit a properly formatted query. It has saved me a great of time and helped me post your queries in a more timely manner. I'd like to share some experiences I had yesterday when I visited southern Snyder County. As some of you may know, I have been assisting my friend Tom Finsterbush in updating and correcting George W. Wagenseller's "Snyder County Tombstone Inscriptions" for a project for the Snyder and Union County Historical Societies. Tom and I spent all day yesterday updating some important and hidden cemeteries in Chapman and Union Townships and thought you might be interested in what we found. We began our trek by travelling from Middleburg south on Route 104. Before reaching Meiserville, we turned east onto Paradise Church Road and drove to Paradise Church to check the cemetery there. The white vinyl sided church was situated on a gentle slope on our right eminating from a cornfield. Just beyond the church was the cemetery, flanked by several large maple trees. Having spent the entire morning in Union County working on cemeteries there, we sat under the trees and had our lunch we packed. There was a cool breeze blowing as Tom shared with me the fact that Paradise Church was originally a United Brethren Church, and now is an active United Methodist Church. After our lunch, we examined the tombstones and discovered that the burials in the upper right hand corner of the cemetery began in the early 1850's, about a decade before the Paradise Church was founded. There were many families with the surnames HERROLD, ARNOLD, REICHENBACH, SHAFFER. Two United Brethren pastor! s ! were buried there: one Rev. Samuel W. HERROLD and a Rev. John SHAFFER, the latter's stone had fallen over onto its back and was partially obscured by lawn trimmings. After we finished our transcription work and corrected and updated Wagenseller, I asked Tom to see if there was a cemetery at McKees Half Falls as someone had e-mailed me and asked me about a cemetery there. He said there was a cemetery and thought he had shown it to me. We drove to the corner of McKee's Road and Old Trail (the original Route 15) and parked. There was a small corner of a field grown over with high weeds. I remembered he took me there two years before. The field corner once held Trinity United Brethren Church but the building was now long gone. All that was left was the cemetery. I remember seeing a few stones standing there, the field freshly mowed, from two years before. But now, it was grown over, and not a stone was left standing. They had been all removed. We thanked God that we had transcribed the inscriptions two years before. The anonymous bodies lying in the field were mute testimony to the lack of appreciation by us moderns for the debt we owe to ou! r ! forebears. I got back into my truck feeling depressed and angry that someone could do such a thing. But Tom had another agenda. He wanted to find the elusive Brubaker cemetery we couldn't find two years ago. So we drove to Hoffer Road and drove up and down between Hoffer and McKee's Road trying to find the "next ridge" a Mennonite had told us about when we were looking for the Rine burial site two years ago. We found the Rine site, but couldn't find the Brubaker Cemetery on the next ridge. After travelling up and down Hoffer Road for while, I decided to stop along the road at a modern farm to ask for information. Tom got out and asked the woman in the house, who directed us to "her man" (a euphemism for her husband) who was out behind the barn. So we drove to behind the barn where a heavy set man was talking with another Mennonite. Tom got out of the truck and asked them questions. I could tell from Tom's quick stepping back to the truck that he knew exactly where it was. So we traveled out to Route 15 and went north until we got to Hilsher's store at Independence and turned left on Peffer Valley Road. We made an immediate left on Old Trail south to McNess Road and turned right onto it. We traveled up the winding road looking for the cemetery until we got to just about the end of the McNess Road, where it intersects with Peffer Valley Road. We didn't see it, so we turned around and went back down McNess. Immediately to our right, enclosed by a white fence, and situated next to a truck garage was a small cemetery. We went to the front gate and went inside. There were two rows of stones to our right, all of the homemade out of concrete and plaster. Most were for children who died in infancy, a few of some older persons. But they were all new, dating from the 1960's through 1980's and we knew that Brubaker cemetery was around for a lot longer. A Mennonite on a horse drawn wagon with two boys sitting on the tail gate came from behind the truck ga! ra! ge. We waved but Tom hollered for the man to stop. The Mennonite obliged when Tom asked what the name of the cemetery was. The man scratched his whiskers and said that it was probably the Hoover cemetery (as there were a few HOOVERs buried it). He added that it was the burial place of members of the Nall Hoover Mennonite church group which moved a few years back to Kentucky. Nall? Tom asked him to spell it:N-O-A-H. Noah, not Nall. Pennsylvania Dutch again. Tom asked him about the Brubaker Cemetery. We had passed that one too. So after recording the inscriptions at the new Hoover Cemetery we backtracked McNess Road to where it intersected with Old Trail at a farm. At the red barn we parked and saw a white hand painted sign pointing up the knob adjacent to McNess Road: Brubaker Cemetery. We traipsed up the knob, overgrown with weeds and with copious amounts of poison ivy thrown in. Standing near the top of the knob, we looked for the cemetery, when through the weeds we could see the outline of a white pipe fence. We walked there and found a large mailbox in which there were copies of all of the known tombstone inscriptions and a wonderful history of the Mennonite presence in Snyder County. Tom and I each took one and proceeded to copy the inscriptions arranged in six or seven neat rows. We corrected Wagenseller again, as well as the papers we found there, and discovered that three Mennonite bishops were buried there. No wonder most everyone we talked to in southern Snyder County knew about Brubaker! c! emetery: it was the final resting place of their spiritual ancestors (as most folks we talked to were either Amish or Mennonite). Some of the tombstones were engraved, weathered marble, and others were engraved field stones. The writer of the cemetery history said that as some stones were becoming illegible, the writer had replaced them with engraved field stones of his own making, unfortunately omitting information on the original stones. Nevertheless, we finished our task and started for home. On the way back north, we went up Product Road at the Susquehanna Mennonite Church. Tom told me that the church used to be known as the HERROLD church, but didn't know its denomination. As we continued up the road, we passed Stouffer's Mennonite Church, the oldest one in the county, replete with many STAHL burials in its large cemetery. Thus ended our trek. We had now located all known Snyder County cemeteries and had finished our work. All that was left was to check the transcriptions for several of the larger cemeteries in the county. Most of the work has been deposited with both the Snyder and the Union County Historical Societies. Tom also wants to check Dressler's Ridge and the Richfield area as many south western Snyder County people were buried there as well. The project has been a big one, and we hope to uncover any other burial sites long forgotten by all but the sharpest oldtimers. Logan Garth Swanger Snyder Co PAGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasnyder PASNYDER-L List Owner [email protected] Member: National Genealogical Society, Snyder County Historical Society (Life Member), Union County Historical Society Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Pioneers South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society --------------36EE153568DC--

Barbara McCusker wrote: > > Allright everyone, I give up. Why do some messages appear in this > elongated format? Logan is not the only one one - there have been > others here and there on other lists, so stretched out that you can't > read it without a great deal of clicking (which I don't usually bother > with). I've even tried printing it out both ways, but never get > anything more than the end section of *some* lines. I'm not up on the > technical end of computers, so would appreciate someone explaining!! /////////////////////////////////////////////////// If you are using the Netscape browser when long lines in E-mail run off the right side of your screen, simply go to the upper left corner, click on "View," click on "Wrap long lines," and all the text will be wrapped back to the size of your monitor's screen. I do not know if there is a simple fix when using other browsers. Can someone else answer that question? Nels

To RootsWeb Listers, If you haven't been using this mapping service, you are probably missing something that could help your genealogical research. To locate geographical features that come up in your records, e.g., cemeteries, churches, streams, valleys, flats, islands, lakes, crossings, gaps, etc., go to the following WebSite: http://mapping.usgs.gov/www/gnis/gnisform.html Enter data on the form and send your query. For example, entering "Cemetery" in "Feature type" for Pennsylvania will get you 2420 cemeteries in the state. Narrowing it down to Northumberland Co. will get you 22 cemeteries. Click on the one you want and a map shows you where it is located. Using the "Zoom In" and "Zoom Out" will give you additional perspective. Very helpful on finding natural features mentioned in deeds and wills or when studying the history of an area. Nelson R. Sulouff

Dear Synder Co. Genealogists: I am looking for other genealogists doing research on the Fisher family of Snyder Co. I am particularly interested in George Fisher married to Barbara S. Kemple. Early 1800. George Fisher and Barbara had 6 children while living in Penn Township,1830 census. She remarried George Gemberling and they had one child Sephares Gemberling. Anyone who is doing research on the Fisher's in general and possibly this particular family, please e-mail; William Buss, e-mail: [email protected] Thanks, Bill Buss

Hi, gang. First, I want to express my appreciation to all of you who sent surname queries for our new surname query page at the Snyder County PAGenWeb site. Thanks especially to most of you who took the time to read the instructions on how to submit a properly formatted query. It has saved me a great of time and helped me post your queries in a more timely manner. I'd like to share some experiences I had yesterday when I visited southern Snyder County. As some of you may know, I have been assisting my friend Tom Finsterbush in updating and correcting George W. Wagenseller's "Snyder County Tombstone Inscriptions" for a project for the Snyder and Union County Historical Societies. Tom and I spent all day yesterday updating some important and hidden cemeteries in Chapman and Union Townships and thought you might be interested in what we found. We began our trek by travelling from Middleburg south on Route 104. Before reaching Meiserville, we turned east onto Paradise Church Road and drove to Paradise Church to check the cemetery there. The white vinyl sided church was situated on a gentle slope on our right eminating from a cornfield. Just beyond the church was the cemetery, flanked by several large maple trees. Having spent the entire morning in Union County working on cemeteries there, we sat under the trees and had our lunch we packed. There was a cool breeze blowing as Tom shared with me the fact that Paradise Church was originally a United Brethren Church, and now is an active United Methodist Church. After our lunch, we examined the tombstones and discovered that the burials in the upper right hand corner of the cemetery began in the early 1850's, about a decade before the Paradise Church was founded. There were many families with the surnames HERROLD, ARNOLD, REICHENBACH, SHAFFER. Two United Brethren pastors ! were buried there: one Rev. Samuel W. HERROLD and a Rev. John SHAFFER, the latter's stone had fallen over onto its back and was partially obscured by lawn trimmings. After we finished our transcription work and corrected and updated Wagenseller, I asked Tom to see if there was a cemetery at McKees Half Falls as someone had e-mailed me and asked me about a cemetery there. He said there was a cemetery and thought he had shown it to me. We drove to the corner of McKee's Road and Old Trail (the original Route 15) and parked. There was a small corner of a field grown over with high weeds. I remembered he took me there two years before. The field corner once held Trinity United Brethren Church but the building was now long gone. All that was left was the cemetery. I remember seeing a few stones standing there, the field freshly mowed, from two years before. But now, it was grown over, and not a stone was left standing. They had been all removed. We thanked God that we had transcribed the inscriptions two years before. The anonymous bodies lying in the field were mute testimony to the lack of appreciation by us moderns for the debt we owe to our ! forebears. I got back into my truck feeling depressed and angry that someone could do such a thing. But Tom had another agenda. He wanted to find the elusive Brubaker cemetery we couldn't find two years ago. So we drove to Hoffer Road and drove up and down between Hoffer and McKee's Road trying to find the "next ridge" a Mennonite had told us about when we were looking for the Rine burial site two years ago. We found the Rine site, but couldn't find the Brubaker Cemetery on the next ridge. After travelling up and down Hoffer Road for while, I decided to stop along the road at a modern farm to ask for information. Tom got out and asked the woman in the house, who directed us to "her man" (a euphemism for her husband) who was out behind the barn. So we drove to behind the barn where a heavy set man was talking with another Mennonite. Tom got out of the truck and asked them questions. I could tell from Tom's quick stepping back to the truck that he knew exactly where it was. So we traveled out to Route 15 and went north until we got to Hilsher's store at Independence and turned left on Peffer Valley Road. We made an immediate left on Old Trail south to McNess Road and turned right onto it. We traveled up the winding road looking for the cemetery until we got to just about the end of the McNess Road, where it intersects with Peffer Valley Road. We didn't see it, so we turned around and went back down McNess. Immediately to our right, enclosed by a white fence, and situated next to a truck garage was a small cemetery. We went to the front gate and went inside. There were two rows of stones to our right, all of the homemade out of concrete and plaster. Most were for children who died in infancy, a few of some older persons. But they were all new, dating from the 1960's through 1980's and we knew that Brubaker cemetery was around for a lot longer. A Mennonite on a horse drawn wagon with two boys sitting on the tail gate came from behind the truck gara! ge. We waved but Tom hollered for the man to stop. The Mennonite obliged when Tom asked what the name of the cemetery was. The man scratched his whiskers and said that it was probably the Hoover cemetery (as there were a few HOOVERs buried it). He added that it was the burial place of members of the Nall Hoover Mennonite church group which moved a few years back to Kentucky. Nall? Tom asked him to spell it:N-O-A-H. Noah, not Nall. Pennsylvania Dutch again. Tom asked him about the Brubaker Cemetery. We had passed that one too. So after recording the inscriptions at the new Hoover Cemetery we backtracked McNess Road to where it intersected with Old Trail at a farm. At the red barn we parked and saw a white hand painted sign pointing up the knob adjacent to McNess Road: Brubaker Cemetery. We traipsed up the knob, overgrown with weeds and with copious amounts of poison ivy thrown in. Standing near the top of the knob, we looked for the cemetery, when through the weeds we could see the outline of a white pipe fence. We walked there and found a large mailbox in which there were copies of all of the known tombstone inscriptions and a wonderful history of the Mennonite presence in Snyder County. Tom and I each took one and proceeded to copy the inscriptions arranged in six or seven neat rows. We corrected Wagenseller again, as well as the papers we found there, and discovered that three Mennonite bishops were buried there. No wonder most everyone we talked to in southern Snyder County knew about Brubaker c! emetery: it was the final resting place of their spiritual ancestors (as most folks we talked to were either Amish or Mennonite). Some of the tombstones were engraved, weathered marble, and others were engraved field stones. The writer of the cemetery history said that as some stones were becoming illegible, the writer had replaced them with engraved field stones of his own making, unfortunately omitting information on the original stones. Nevertheless, we finished our task and started for home. On the way back north, we went up Product Road at the Susquehanna Mennonite Church. Tom told me that the church used to be known as the HERROLD church, but didn't know its denomination. As we continued up the road, we passed Stouffer's Mennonite Church, the oldest one in the county, replete with many STAHL burials in its large cemetery. Thus ended our trek. We had now located all known Snyder County cemeteries and had finished our work. All that was left was to check the transcriptions for several of the larger cemeteries in the county. Most of the work has been deposited with both the Snyder and the Union County Historical Societies. Tom also wants to check Dressler's Ridge and the Richfield area as many south western Snyder County people were buried there as well. The project has been a big one, and we hope to uncover any other burial sites long forgotten by all but the sharpest oldtimers. Logan Garth Swanger Snyder Co PAGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasnyder PASNYDER-L List Owner [email protected] Member: National Genealogical Society, Snyder County Historical Society (Life Member), Union County Historical Society Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Pioneers South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

Hi, I am doing research on the Kremer family and need more information on my great grandmother Catharine Ann (Kate) Kremer b. 110 Jan 1835 and d. 2 Nov 1912. She married Christian Enterline and they had 6 children. Her parents were Henry Kremer and Catharine Weigel who lived in Selinsgrove. Does anyone know the parents of Henry and Catharine ? Would appreciate all information about this lline. Gene Straley

Hi all--I am seeking info on this family William ANDERSON b c 1752 in PA m Rebecca or Margaret res in Snyder Co, PA Thanks--Marc Daup/LancCo:BRINE/BRIEN, HAMMA ,HAUTSCH, LEHMAN PETERS, RUDY, SWARTZ, TR(A)(O)V)INGER, WOR(T)(K)MAN N'land Co:DUNKERT, MCCLOUD, UnionCo:CULP/KOLB YorkCo:GIPE/GEIB), HAMM, HENSEL, RAYMOND/REIMON SchuylCo:GOODMAN/GUTEMAN/GUTHMAN _____________________________________________________________________ You don't need to buy Internet access to use free Internet e-mail. Get completely free e-mail from Juno at http://www.juno.com Or call Juno at (800) 654-JUNO [654-5866]

I am researching the following connected families in Snyder and Union Cos in the 19th century: Moyer, Hachenberg and Weaver. Would like to connect with and share info with anyone doing the same families. Linda

Searching for information on the following surnames in Snyder County Feirick Hackmeister Moyer Lenig Shamory Any help on the surnames will be greatly appreciated. Thanks. Tammy Caison [email protected]

Thanks to all of you who sent me information on researching in Union and Snyder Counties. I hope to find out some information concerning my elusive Frederick ZIEBER while I am there. Regards, Cynthia Zieber

Hi, Union County Courthouse is also a very nice place to visit, and the Historical Society is right in the Courthouse! They are all very helpful. The Historical Society hours are Monday thru Friday 8:30-4:30 and Saturdays by appointment. Their e-mail address is [email protected] Good luck. Carol in GA

I am interested in finding records of unmarked graves in the Snyder Co. cemeteries. Most particularly, I am interested in the Shamokin Dam Cemetery on 7th Street (my mother called it "the Aurand" cemetery). According to G. Wagenseller's book there are 172 graves, 93 with inscriptions. There is a suspiciously open space surrounded by my Aurand relations and since I am trying to find the parents of my gggrandfather, Henry D. Aurand (1813-1878), I can't help thinking they might be in that space. I figured someone had to have a map of the cemetery so old graves wouldn't be dug up for new ones, so we contacted the funeral home that buried the last of the greataunts about 10 years ago. They said they didn't have one, the man who dug the hole did and he could not be contacted (I forget why, maybe he died). We went to the Borough offices but drew a blank there, also. I'm sure others would be interested in any cemetery maps if they could be found. Lisa Betts [email protected]

Checked into the "Snyder County Pioneers" by Dr. Fisher - he says that the "Morr's" church is named for Andrew Moor, Sr and Jr. who were instrumental in its founding (in 1770 Andrew Moor, Sr. along with Peter Straub and Casper Roush bought a tract of land from a man named Ort, located in what is now Washington Co., east of Freeburg, and made application for a church and school. There is a Keiser's Lutheran and Reformed church located close to Verdilla in what is now Union Twp., Snyder Co., where some of the early (1801) Keiser family members are buried. These are descendents of Jacob Keiser (Keyser, Kiser, Kaiser, Kayser) emigrated to PA in 1751 from Germany, settled in Union Twp., Snyder Co. before 1790, prior to moving on to Cumberland Co. The info on the Keiser family Jacob, Sr. , Michael Keiser (1772-1825) and Jacob Keiser (1787-1829) also comes from the Fisher book, "Snyder Co. Pioneers". Hope this helps! Ann in SC ---------- Forwarded Message ---------- From: INTERNET:[email protected], INTERNET:[email protected] TO: (unknown), INTERNET:[email protected] DATE: 7/20/98 1:44 PM RE: [PASNYDER-L] Zion Church Cemetery From: "Bud Keiser" <[email protected]> Can anyone out there tell me where the "Zion (Morr's) Lutheran Church Cemetery" is located in Washington Twp near the town of Freeburg? I am wondering if the name "Morr" refers to the Jacob J. Morr estate which lies due east of Freeburg. This tract was 222 acres in 1830 when my ancestor, Solomon Keyser (Keiser) bought it from Jacob J. Morr and his wife, Mary. Solomon lived on the land for 2 or 3 years before he left for Ohio. Apparently the land somehow reverted to "J. J. Morr" because it shows this name on the 1868 Atlas of Union & Snyder Counties. My interest is that Solomon's father, Peter Keiser, Jr., may have died during this period and I am searching for his burial site. If the Zion Church cemetery is, in fact, located on this 222 acre tract, I might expect to find him buried there. A listing of burial names in this cemetery would be of great help. Thanks. Bud Keiser [email protected]

Can anyone out there tell me where the "Zion (Morr's) Lutheran Church Cemetery" is located in Washington Twp near the town of Freeburg? I am wondering if the name "Morr" refers to the Jacob J. Morr estate which lies due east of Freeburg. This tract was 222 acres in 1830 when my ancestor, Solomon Keyser (Keiser) bought it from Jacob J. Morr and his wife, Mary. Solomon lived on the land for 2 or 3 years before he left for Ohio. Apparently the land somehow reverted to "J. J. Morr" because it shows this name on the 1868 Atlas of Union & Snyder Counties. My interest is that Solomon's father, Peter Keiser, Jr., may have died during this period and I am searching for his burial site. If the Zion Church cemetery is, in fact, located on this 222 acre tract, I might expect to find him buried there. A listing of burial names in this cemetery would be of great help. Thanks. Bud Keiser [email protected]

Whew! Your response to the surname page is overwhelming. Thanks to you, we have over 57 surnames in two days. We hope to keep adding. If you haven't checked it out yet, point your browser to: http:/www.rootsweb.com/~pasnyder/sur.htm You may want to check out the other pages as well, particularly the one of repositories in Snyder County. There has been some question about the Snyder County Historical Society (of which I am a life member). That information, as well as their programs, are available on the Snyder Co PAGenWeb site. An updated listing of cemeteries is soon to be posted as well as some Civil War information and some royalty-free maps. I'm also putting in an easier way to access the USGenWeb Snyder County PA archives. You may wish to submit information to them for Internet access. Please let me know how we can improve the site other than posting genealogies of certain lineages (which is more appropriate to a family web site rather than a county site). Logan Garth Swanger Snyder Co PAGenWeb County Coordinator http://www.rootsweb.com/~pasnyder PASNYDER-L List Owner [email protected] Member: National Genealogical Society, Snyder County Historical Society (Life Member), Union County Historical Society Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Pioneers South Central Pennsylvania Genealogical Society

I am going to be researching in Snyder County soon to try and find out more informtaion concerning Frederick ZIEBER and his family. Because of changes in county boundaries that means going to the courthouses in Northumberland, Snyder and Union counties. Does anyone know the hours I would find any of these courthouses open? Also what library would I go to to find the most genealogical information. My time is very limited (I am also visiting my 93 year old mother) so I want to make the most of it. I would appreciate any advice. Thanks, Cynthia Zieber in very hot Santa Rosa, CA