Jan Willem Eisma/Axmear (1822-1913) was born at Amsterdam, Netherlands. He married Deute de Leeuw (1822-1860) in 1848 and immigrated to the United States that same year. In the United States, he changed the spelling of his surname to Axmear. John and Deute had five children, 1850-1858, born in Cumberland, Maryland, and Preston County, West Virginia. He married 2) Julia Ann Martin (d. 1915), a native of Bavaria, Germany, in 1861. They had three children....

John Kinsey was an early English Quaker who lived in the village of Much Haddam, Herefordshire, England. He immigrated to America aboard the ship "Kent" in the year 1677 and helped to settle the town of Burlington, New Jersey. John married, was the father of four known children and died 14 August 1687. Descendants lived in New Jersey and elsewhere.

James Adams or McAdam (d.1743) emigrated from Scotland to northern Ireland, married Elizabeth Elder about 1700, and immigrated in 1721/ 1722 to Londonderry, New Hampshire. William Adams (ca.1689-1761), probably a younger brother of James, was born in northern Ireland and emigrated from there to New Hampshire with James. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, Michigan and elsewhere. Some descendants immigrated to New Brunswick and...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Prall (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Belgium, England, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Ireland, and Normandy. Some were French Huguenots; some were Walloons. Focus is on (but not limited to) descendants of Arendt Jansen Prall (ca. 1647-1725), and his wife, Maria Billiou (b. 1650), the daughter of French immigrants, Francoise Du Bois and Peter Billiou....

Autobiography of Mamie (Huebner) Sherwood (b.1901), Tajunga, California. She was born on a farm near Montevideo, Minnesota to Frederick William Huebner and Mary Louise Wodtke. She became a school teacher in Los Angeles, California in 1925, and married Bill Sherwood in 1934. She continued to teach school, and also raised a family.

When Rufus Everett Sherwood was born on 7 March 1908, in Kimball, Cardston, Alberta, Canada, his father, Arthur Sherwood, was 25 and his mother, Melissa Priscilla Bennett, was 21. He married Ella Roena Tanner on 24 October 1929, in Cardston Alberta Temple, Cardston, Cardston, Alberta, Canada. They were the parents of at least 3 daughters. He lived in Cardston, Alberta, Canada in 1950 and Edmonds, Snohomish, Washington, United States in 1996. He died...

Thomas Sherwood (1586-1655) emigrated in 1634 from England to Plymouth, Massachusetts, and settled in Boston. He married twice (once in England) and as early as 1644 moved to Fairfield, Connecticut. Francis Sherwood emigrated from England to St. Mary's County, Maryland, as early as 1646. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, Maryland, Pennsylvania, New York, Ohio, Indiana and elsewhere. Includes some family ancestry and genealogical data...