Hempstone Heritage I: In Accordance With Their Wills; "All the Heckled Hemp She Can Spin"Did you know that the original Hempfield Township in Lancaster Co., Pa., was named for the vast amounts of hemp raised there? Did you know that hemp was grown on virtually every early farm in Pa. and was considered a vital necessity? The fascinating details of this old Pa. industry is revealed in the wills of our ancestors who by leaving hemp in their wills to the descendants left us a unique way to study how hemp was actually used in the colonial and

This fully illustrated book is the story of Anabaptist Christen Fankhauser who was a dairy farmer near Trub

Pleasant Word

Auker (June 17

and grandson of John and Mary (Klopfenstein) Schmucker

A collection of stories by persons recalling memories of life in Russia from hearing their grandparents reminiscing

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This Nagel family history contains data on over 2

and census records

Information on their ancestral lines and their descendants is included as well as church denominations for each descendant

wife and family

Mennonite brothers in Lancaster

Genealogy of Jacob and Catharine (Blough) Wingard and their descendants in the Johnstown flood