Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Hollingshead families who descend from John and Grace Hollinshead, Quakers from Cheshire, England, who immigrated in 1678 to Burlington County, New Jersey. Some of their descendants fled from New Jersey to Ontario, Nova Scotia and elsewhere in Canada ca. 1776. Focus is on a later descendant, Nelson Stoyell Hollingshead (1824-1884) a son of Thomas and Aurelia (Mathews) Hollingshead....

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Barner (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Denmark, England, Germany, Sweden, and Switzerland. Focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of the Swiss immigrant, Adam Barner (ca. 1740-ca. 1805). Adam came from Berne, Switzerland in 1758, and settled in Robeson Township, Berks County, Pennsylvania. In 1767, he married Maria Euphronica Conrad Bunn, the widow...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Alderson (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from England (especially Yorkshire), Ireland, Scotland, and Sweden. The Alderson family probably originated from Aldoue de Bolton, a vassall of William de Vesoy, sheriff of Lancaster in the 12th Century England. His son, William Aldouesson had two sons, Richard and William Alderson. Some Aldersons immigrated to Maryland,...

Emma May Shellito, daughter of August P. Shellito (d. 1954) and Ruby Noordam, was born in 1921 in Shell Lake, Wisconsin. She married Bud Duncan in 1938 in Havre, Montana. They had two children. She married Glenn Aker Light in 1944 in Fort Benton, Montana. They had four children.

Material and correspondence collected by Dennis Yancey from a number of individuals with interest in the Yancey family in the United States. These materials trace various Yancey families in America giving insight into these families, their origins and descendants. Includes Yancey, Williamson, Kemper, Nanney, Beadles, Thommason, Etherington, Ethington, and related families.

John Lichty or Light immigrated from the Palatinate to Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, in 1738. The volume contains his descendants.

"This unique directory sheds light on the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries in Waco when men and women could openly own and operate their own saloons and bawdy houses. After finding more than 1,200 names of people involved in the business of prostitution between 1869 and 1918 while researching for the book--The Oldest Profession in Texas, Waco's Legal Red Light District--the authors decided to keep a database of those characters they came...

"Family history begins with missing persons," Alison Light writes in Common People. We wonder about those we've lost, and those we never knew, about the long skein that led to us, and to here, and to now. So we start exploring. Most of us, however, give up a few generations back. We run into a gap, get embarrassed by a ne'er-do-well, or simply find our ancestors are less glamorous than we'd hoped. That didn't stop Alison Light: in the last weeks of...

John Long Gelnett (1878-1964), was born in Knousetown, Pennsylvania. He married Daisy Irene Zeiders (1884-1971), daughter of William Zeiders and Margaret, in 1905. They had six children.