Includes index and extensive endnotes that document the information in the text.
Summary
"John M. Douglas had a long history as a Naval avaiator, serving first as an enlisted man during World War II...During his navy career, John logged a totla of 4910 flight hours and 250 aircraft carrier landings...After retiring from the Navy, he began a second career as a social studies teacher at McCaskey High School in Lancaster, Pennsylvania...The genesis of this book was John's curiosity of his Scottish heritage."
The Landis Legacy: Descendants of Jacob and Anna (Witmer) Landis, 1717 immigrants to East Lampeter Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, following paternal lineages up to the twentieth century with an emphasis on generations one through seven
In search of Buchanan : 'Clarior hinc honos' : the stories of some Buchanan ancestors before and after the emigration of James Buchanan of Ramelton, County Donegal, Ireland, in 1783
iii, 152, [17] pages : illustrations (some color), maps (some color), portraits (some color), facsimiles ; 25 cm
Notes
Sub-title on cover: from Anselan to President James Buchanan.
"Some of these stories are incorporated in the BBC1 TV documentary, 'Are you related to an American President?', produced by Big Mountain Productions."
Issued as: Journal of the Historical Society of the Cocalico Valley, 37 (2012).
Summary
"In addition to offering a biography of Harry Franklin Stauffer [1896-1982] the journal traces his printing career which began in 1915 when he was employed with Silas Bard's Denver Press. In later years Stauffer operated the print shop of Weaver's Book Store, Lancaster. Following his retirement from Weaver's he established a private press-the "Conestoga Press"- for the purpose of demonstrating the art of printing at the Kutztown Folk Festival. The journal also records the restoration of the historic Ephrata press at the historic Ephrata Cloister." [from the Journal of the Historical Society Of The Cocalico Valley]
Abstract: Many Pennsylvania Mennonite families trace solid ancestral lines back to immigrant Mennonite and Amish ancestors. Not so for members of Mennonite Lind families, the first of whom settled in Pennsylvania in the 1940s. This began a continual Mennonite Lind presence in Pennsylvania or, for some years, with Lancaster's mission outreach in Africa. Their immigrant Lind ancestor, John "Philip" Lind, arrived in the United States single, a young man of the Moravian faith. He soon married Elizabeth Whitesell, also a Moravian, and they lived in several Pennsylvania locations. Their son Jacob Lind, born near Nazareth, Pennsylvania, went west and settled in Ohio, where he met and married Maggie Ziegler Boyer and became a convinced member of her Mennonite faith. It is Mennonite descendants of their son Norman A. Lind who made homes in Pennsylvania.
"We want to acknowledge the help for this book which came from the Henry and Sallie Martin & Emanuel and Lizzie Martin books, compiled in part by Marlin E. Sensenig, from Philip Horst, Isaac Martin, Lizzie Nolt, and others who send information"--Introduction.
