Hello Everybody... I hadn't realized this list was so new when I posted a few days ago, so I'll introduce myself now. Oh, and from my first posting, I'm thrilled to say that I found a second cousin I hadn't known existed! I was born in Snyder County and lived there for the first 21 years of my life. I'm now in Northumberland Co., and still close to "home." All four of my lines are centered right here in central PA and since they were very large families, I'm finding that they cross with many of the families that are being researched in this area. I'll be reading all the list mail carefully and checking for any possible names crossing with the family books I have. I'd also like to take this opportunity to say a big and heartfelt "thank you" to our moderator and list owner for making this possible. I'm not sure what's been discussed since I just got here, but if it hasn't come up yet, I think it would be a great idea to keep these introductions we're doing on file somewhere and then offered to any newcomers who might wish to read them. That way they'd have our research list names and we wouldn't have to keep saying the same intros over. I've very glad to be part of this group, and my own list is: (Main list) KRATZER, WILL, RIEGEL, HACKENBERG (Secondary list) KUHNS, WAGNER, BINGAMAN, HOFFMAN, KLINE, MITCHELL, WALTER, MOYER, WERTZ, GOSS, DECKER (Names further back in time) HAAL, PLATTNER/BLATTNER, GERTRUITHA, HOENEN, WERNER, REBENTISCH, SIPHERS ------> Please respond to [email protected] Thanks! <------