Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the MacLeod Clan (and variant spellings) that originated in Scotland, in the islands of Raasay and Skye. One ancestor was Hugh MacLeod of Raasay. Of Hugh's descendants, only Donald stayed in Raasay, and later established branches of the MacLeod family in Skye. Later, 300 MacLeod descendants immigrated to America, settling mainly in the Carolinas and New York. Other of Hugh McLeod's...

Newsletter for the interchange and collection of genealogical and family history data about Roskelley individuals and families within the United States. Chiefly is concerned with the ancestry and descendants of Samuel Roskelley (b.1837), a convert to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, who immigrated from England to Salt Lake City in 1853. He married Rebecca Hendricks in 1858, and moved to Cache Valley, Utah in 1860. Descendants and relatives...

"George Gray (1725-1800) m[arried] 1752 Martha Ibbetson (1734-1781). George Gray, believed to have been the fourth of the name in direct descent from father to son, was born in Germantown, Pa., 26 October, 1725. He was the son of George Gray 3rd (1693-1748/9) and his wife Mary (maiden name unknown) who was the widow of Joseph Ewen of Germantown. The Grays lived near Kingsessing, in Blockey Township, Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania, and were the...

Abraham Kensinger/Gansinger is the earliest descendant the author has be able to trace. He was born before 1750, lived in Pennsylvania, and died before March 1805. Abraham may have arrived in Philadelphia in August 1729. He and his wife (name unknown) had five children, Abraham, Daniel, Magdalina, Esther and Elizabeth. The descendants include Ayers, Biddle, Detwiler, Dilling, Loose, Smith, Sollenberger, Stern and related families.

"Johann Balthaser Harff, the progenitor of the Harff-Hurff family of Gloucester County, N. J. was born in Germany about 1700 and died in Gloucester County, N. J. before April 24, 1784 ...He married in Germany about 1730/35. Catharine ( ) last name unknown, born in Germany about 1702 and died in Glo. Co., N. J., after July 1798. Both are probably buried in St. John's P. E. Cemetery, Chews Landing, N. J."--P. 63. Johann emigrated to America on...

History and genealogy of the Baird and Beard families. Descendants of James Baird, of Scotch-Irish descent, who was born in 1703, and immigrated to New Jersey about 1720. Descendants and relatives lived in Ohio, New York, Connecticut, New Jersey, Mississippi, Louisiana, Arkansas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Indiana, Illinois, Kentucky, Iowa, Wisconsin and elsewhere.

The Wideners appear to have been German Baptists and Lutherans and were no doubt persecuted in the fatherland as many of the followers of Luther were 26. The emigration to this country appears to have commenced about 1730, when Penn's Colony was made a retreat for religious toleration. Weidners have continued to emigrate to the present time. The old families whose descendants appear hereafter came at or about the same time, landed at Philadelphia...