Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Blair (and variant spellings) families who came to America mainly from Ireland and Scotland. One ancestor was William de Blair, who lived in 1260 in Scotland. Some of his descendants immigrated to America; others moved first to Ireland and then came to America. One immigrant ancestor was Dr. James Blair, a graduate of Edinburgh University who was sent as a missionary to the American...

Claude Le Maitre, a Protestant, immigrated from France (via England and then Holland) to Flatbush, Long Island, New York in 1652. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname De La Mater, Delamater, or Le Maitre) and relatives lived in New York, New England, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Florida, Ohio, Illiniois, California, Iowa and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Quebec and elsewhere in Canada. Includes some family history and genealogy in France....

An every-name index to the periodical, "Mock family historian." The Mock (and variant spellings) families came mainly from Austria, Bohemia, England, Germany (especially the Neckar region), Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Russia, Scotland, Switzerland, and the Ukraine. Some were Palatinate immigrants. Some belonged to The Church of the Brethren. Many settled in Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, South Carolina,...

Niklaus/Nicholas Fankhauser (1782-1858) was born in Trub, Bern, Switzerland, the son of Niklaus and Maria Rass Fankhauser. In 1806, he married Anna Pfister and they had at least six children. She died in Switzerland about 1817. About 1818, he married Sophia Spittler and they immigrated to Ohio. Descendants have scattered throughout the United States.

"Michael Horine, b. 175_ d. 1810, son of Frederick Horine I. (1) (b. 1715 d. 17__) was born in one of the German provinces bordering on the River Rhine. He with his two brothers, Jacob and George and two sisters came to America in the early 1770's. They are said to have landed in Baltimore and were supposed to have lived there for a time in Maryland (probably in Frederick County, where an earlier family of Horines had settled about 25 years before)....

Genealogy of the Grant and Cumming families that came to America in 1777. The Grant families and the Cumming family intermarried. Their descendants listed lived in New York, Connecticut, Ohio, Indiana, California, Missouri, Oklahoma, Washington, Iowa, South Dakota, Kansas, Montana, New Jersey, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania and elsewhere. Donald Grant (b. 1750), a native of Inverness, Scotland, married Elizabeth Cumming, daughter of Duncan and Isabella...

Peter Jacoby (d.1761) married Maria Elizabeth Heuer, and in 1741 the family immigrated from the Palatinate of Germany to Philadelphia, settling in Bucks County, Pennsylvania. It is presumed that Maria Elizabeth Jacoby died about l January 1790. " ... The administrators bond was dated 7 Jan. 1790 ... Both Peter and Maria Elizabeth Jacoby were buried in the grave yard at the Tohickon Church."--P. 81 located in Bedminister Tp. Includes information...