This post is a repository for documents related to the Cowan and Fleming families of Lancaster County and Chester County Pennsylvania. I have created a table of contents to enable…
Table of Contents Introduction DAR Lineage Book Potential Revolutionary War Military Records for William Cowan 1st Battalion, 8th Company, Lancaster County 4th Artillery Regiment 6th Battalion, 4th Company, Chester County…
Birth: Aug. 28, 1854, Monmouth IL.Death: May 20, 1934, Taylor County IA. Luella Estella (Cowan) Beach was Effie's mother Emma Eugenia (Cowan) Rhining's older sister, by two years. They were…
I tried to visit Mount Greenwood Cemetery back in 2010 but it was closed. I'm using this post to collect research for my next visit and classifying it as a…
While poking around on Ancestry.com, I found a page from the 100th Anniversary book of the First Reformed Church of South Holland, which included this picture of Roel van Vuuren (born…
In 2012, I received an email from Mr. Tymen Wierstra, an active genealogist and cultural heritage preservationist in Grijpskerk, a village in the Dutch province of Groningen where many of…
Our cemetery search was not as fruitful as I had hoped. After searching the indexes at SSGHS, I began to doubt whether my previous research was accurate. Also, we learned…
Who are John De Vos and Gertrude Van Der Mer? (Click here for full size image.) I love this photo-- John De Vos hamming it up with a bonnet on…