Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Lay (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Baden, England, Germany, Ireland, Pfalz, and Wales. Some immigrated the United States, via Canada. Some settled in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and Virginia in the 1600s. In the 1700s, some settled in Nova Scotia (Canada), and in Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island,...

Research tracing members of the Ensminger families who left Alsace, France and settled in the United States during the 18th and 19th centuries. Many families settled in Pennsylvania and their descendants gradually moved into the midwestern states. Other families settled in New York and South Carolina. Information on many of these early families is given here, however, little information on living descendants is included. Surname also spelled Entsminger,...

Ancestors and descendants of Philip Ensminger (b. ca. 1664), who about 1695 moved from Waldhambach to Durstel and later to Melting. He had eleven children, of whom at least three died in infancy. Several other children immigrated to America. Peter (1694-1739) married Catharine Trautmann, 1719 and immigrated to Pennsylvania in 1733; Margaret (b. 1697) married John Wolfersberger in 1721 and immigrated to Pennsylvania; Nicholas (1699-1786) married Margaret...

John Samuel Duey, son of Peter Duey and Mary Magdeline Kast, was born 20 Oct 1820, in Southhampton Township, Shippensburg, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania. He married Mary Ann Durnbaugh, daughter of Joseph Durnbaugh and Susan, on 22 May 1846 in Shippensburg. They had 12 children. John died 22 Jan 1886 in Quincy, Pennsylvania, and Mary also died there on 9 Sep 1904. There descendants have lived in Pennsylvania, Indiana, Florida, Georgia, Connecticut...