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,...

Descendants of Johann Wendel George Traut (1689-1760) of Kleinfischlingen, Landau, Germany, who came to America in 1738. He was married (1) to Maria Appolonia Steinlin, with whom he had seven children born between 1723 and 1738. He settled in Strasburg Township of Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, where in 1739 he married his second wife, Maria Magdalena Walter (1717-1760). They had seven children born between 1739 and 1749. Descendants and family members...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Kreiser family who descended from Casper, Frederick, and Michael Kreiser, who came to America in 1752. They probably came from Switzerland. They settled in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania primarily in Annville township (popularly known Millerstown) and the nearby villages of Avon and Bellegrove. Many descendants remained in that area. Information contains primarily annual reunion...

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Blue (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from the Netherlands and Scotland, also from Africa, Denmark, England, France, Germany, Ireland, and Switzerland. Frederick and Grietje Janss of the Dutch West India Company appeared in Dutch Reformed Church records at Recife, Brazil in 1646. They moved to New Amsterdam in 1651. Their son, Jan Frederickse took the surname...