Family files are created for Lancaster County families. They may contain correspondence about a family, short genealogies and charts, photocopies of inventories and accounts, letters, etc. The size of any particular family file varies greatly.
"Every family has a story to tell. This is the first part of the story of fifteen generations of a Bear family of Switzerland, Germany, and America and of how records on it were discovered, analyzed, and integrated into this article. Perhaps by examining the family history of one of the trees in the forest of history, we can come to a better understanding of the forest." [from the introductory paragraph]
