Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Griesemer (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Germany. Some focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Valentine Griesemer who came to Philadelphia ca. 1730. His family and other Griesemers lived in Indiana, Iowa, and Pennsylvania in the 1700's-1800's. Later descendants also lived in Africa, Belize, Canada, Romania, Russia, and in California, Delaware, Florida,...

Francisco Teodosius Olasquaga was born in Toluca, Mex in 1836. He came to the United States with soldiers leaving from the Mexican-American War and settled in Pennsylvania. He assumed the name Frank Theodore Wallace and later married Lucinda Cloyd Clyde in 1858. They were parents to thirteen children. Includes Otey, Olascuaga, Hartman, Shaner, Schaefer, and related families.

Conrad Beuchle (Beighley) (1737-1824) was born in Stuttgart, Wurtemberg, Germany. He came to America in 1754 and married Margaretta Wiles in 1764. He later died in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania.

Johann Michael Fabian was born in 1696 in Meckesheim, Germany. His parents were Johann Conrad Fabian (1659-1776) and Anna Magdalena Herbold (1668-1710). He married Anna Dorothea Welz in 1729. They immigrated to America in 1732 and settled in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania. They had five children. His wife died in 1741. He married Anna Catharina Eissenmann in 1742. They moved to Bucks County, Pennsylvania where Johann Michael died in about 1772. Descendants...

Abraham Anthony was born 12 July 1806 in North Carolina. He married Susannah Johnson, born in Kentucky in 1816. They moved to Bond County, Illinois in the early 1830s. They had nine children: William, John Wesley, Mary Jane, Margaret C., Martha, Jonathan H., Millie Ann and Nancy Ellen. Includes descendants, chiefly in Bond County, Illinois, but also in Missouri, Indiana and elsewhere.

Henry Wettling Sr. (1785-1861) was born in Neiderbachdorf, Germany He and his wife, Dorthea (1783-1858), immigrated to New York in 1828. They later moved to Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Some descendants changed name to "Whitling". Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, California, Ohio, and related families.

John Adam Scheffer (1746/1751-1840) immigrated, with an older brother, from Germany (via Rotterdam) to Philadelphia in 1764, and settled in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, served in the Revolutionary War, married widow Catherine Dorothea (Trope) Sipe in 1780, and moved to Fayette County and later Clarion County, Pennsylvania. Descendants (most spelling the surname Sheffer) lived in Pennsylvania, Washington, D.C., Florida, Kansas, Illinois and elsewhere....

Nicholas Baker was born in about 1726 in Hessen, Germany. He married Christine Eckhart. Their son, Jacob, was born in about 1764 in Northampton County, Pennsylvania. Jacob married and had seven children. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.

Barnabas Klein was born in 1753 in Pennsylvania and died in 1830 in Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania. He married a Margaret and had children: Henry (1778-1870), Peter (1781-1858), Christena Kepple (1784-1848), Barnabas (1785-1861), S. Elizabeth Bear (1789-1824), Polly Stiffey (1791-?), Catharine Blecker (1793-?), Johannes (1795-?), George (1797-1873). Includes the names of Artman, Ashbaugh, Beck, Bopp, Cline, Fritz, Kepple, Klein, Kline, Klingensmith,...