Benjamin Unruh and Anna Smith were married in Poland during the time Poland was under Russian rule. Includes Nickel, Koehn and allied families.

Benjamin G. Boese (1817-1866) married Maria Schmit and lived at Zabara-Waldheim, Russia. After his death, his widow and family immigrated in 1874 from Russia to New York, and settled near Avon, South Dakota. Descendants and relatives lived in South Dakota, Colorado, Michigan, California, Florida and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to Saskatchewan and elsewhere in Canada. Includes family history and some genealogical data in Russia and earlier...

Descendants of George Podoll, son of Michel Podoll of Beelitz, Posen, Prussia (b. 1718/19). George had five children born from 1753 to about 1774.

John Heinrich Schmidt was born 9 April 1804 in Langenaubach, Nassau, Germany. He married Catharina Elisabeth Schmitt 7 February 1830 in Haiger, Germany. They had eight children. They emigrated in 1852 and settled in Wisconsin. Johann died in 1874 in Waupaca, Wisconsin. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in Germany, Switzerland, England, Wisconsin and Illinois.

John Emer Ashcroft (1865-1924) was born at Hyde Park, Utah, a Mormon and a son of Henry Ashcroft and Elizabeth Ann Barton. After his father died, his widowed mother married a Mormon widower with three small children in 1869. So John Bloomfield and Elizabeth Ann Barton united their families, and in 1877 were called to help colonize Obed (near Winslow), Arizona, then Ramah, New Mexico in 1882, and the Mormon colonies in Mexico in 1885. John Emer Ashcroft...

David Corbin, son of William Corbin and Elizabeth Fletcher, was born in 1790 in Virginia. He settled in Missouri in 1839. He married Annie Erwin in 1813. They had eleven children. Their youngest child, James Fletcher Corbin (1831-1902), married Nancy Adams Beckley (1837-1928) in 1853. They had eleven children.

Benjamin Franklin Nickel was born 11 July 1810 in Pennsylvania. He married Julia Ann McCorkle, daughter of John McCorkle (1788-1857) and Susannah Powell (1789-1860), 24 March 1833 in Waynesburg, Pennsylvania. They had ten children. They moved to Neptune, Mercer, Ohio in 1836. Benjamin fought in the Civil War. He died in Tennessee in 1862. Includes a transcript of his brief Civil War diary. Includes Fanger, Lackey, Nottingham, Shepherd and related...

"Deacon Thomas Hanchett, the ancestor of all the American Family, was born in England, probably not earlier than 1620. When he emigrated to this country is not known, although if, as is supposed, he was the brother of John Hanchett, of Boston, in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, it is probable that he came here with the latter, who is first reported in this country in 1634...Deacon Thomas Hanchett died in Suffield, Ct., 11 June 1686..."--P. [1]. Thomas...

Peter Penner was born in the Mennonite settlements of Russia in 1850. His family had come from Germany to Russia and soon after his marriage to Margaretha Wiebe he brought his family to southern Canada. Later other members of his family settled in Manitoba, and Minnesota with other Mennonites. Peter and Margaretha were the parents of ten children. Information on many of their descendants and other relatives, as well as their ancestry back into Germany...

Johann Podoll (1820-1899) was the son of Christian Friedrich Podoll and Johanna Louise Melling of Radwonke, Co. Kolmar, Grand Duchy of Posen, Kingdom of Prussia. He married Anna Caroline Podoll, the daughter of Mathias Podoll and Ewe Rosine Birkholz, at Samoczyn, Co. Kolmar, Province Posen (status changed after 1836) in 1844. They spent 21 years of married life at Radwonke, where he farmed hereditary land. They emigrated to the USA in 1865, landing...