Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Reigel (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Germany, and settled in Bucks and Lancaster Counties in Pennsylvania. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Michael Riegel (d. 1809) of Lancaster County, and his wife Magdalena Wittmer (d. 1814). They had three children: David (b. 1780), who married Elizabeth Schmidt or Smith, and had 12 children; Martin...

Although Thomas Bradbury and his wife came to the United States in 1635/36 from England most of the material in this book consists of biographical-genealogical sketches of their ancestors. Includes Bradbury, Perkinds, Cotton, Everard, Gerberga, Giselbert, Godfrey, Heigham, Fraunceys, Louis, Lothair, Otto, Pepin, Rede, Renaud and related families.

Michiel Otto, son of Johann Heinrich Otto and Dorothea, was born 27 August 1688 in Chemnitz, Saxony, Germany. He immigrated to South Africa in 1714. He died 1743 in Somerset-West, Western Cape, South Africa.

"Brief research showed this to belong to the Otto/Lowe families of Berks County, Pennsylvania (and was likely last owned by Henry Otto Lowe, Jr. of Reading, Pennsylvania, who died in 1992.) The bible has genealogical information and papers in it dating back to Henry Muhlenberg Otto and his father, John Bodo Otto. The Ottos are a well-known family in Berks County, dating back to Dr. Bodo Otto, Senior Surgeon during the Revolutionary War."--P. [1].

Johannes Josef Otto (1790-1830) was born in Warnsdorf, Bohemia to Adalbert Otto and Maria Barbara Sieber. In 1812 he married Maria Katherina Theresia Johne (1789-1848). They were the parents of nine childre, one of whom was Josef Franz Otto (1819-1882). Josef married twice and was the father of at least six children. In the 1850s the family immigrated to America and settled in Pennsylvania. Descendants live in Pennsylvania and other parts of the United...

Simon Samuel Wertheimer is believed to have been born in Baden, Germany. He came to America before the Civil War and he served in that conflict. He married Beate Maria Fricke and they settled in Michigan where their two children were born. Correspondence and information gathered in the search for Simon's Jewish ancestry is included in this material gathered by his great granddaughter, as well as material on his descendants and relatives. His descendants...