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.
Family gathering in the back yard of the Gerhart family, at the corner of Duke and Walnut Streets, Lancaster. Identified in the photograph are: Margaret Jenkins, Ruth Patterson, Tess Howell, Susan Howell, Susan Baumgardner, Mary Gerhart Taylor, Susan Baumgardner, Mary Eberman Hopkins, Elizabeth Howell, Robert Gerhart, Heyward Jenkins, Helen Gerhart, Charles Howell, John Baumgardner, Ellen B. Patterson, Edwin Eberman, Mary B. Eberman, Susan Eberman Reynolds, Howard Smith, Ritchie Jenkins, Thomas Baumgardner, Eliza B. Gerhart, Marguerite Gerhart, Susan Baumgardner Herr, Thomas Baumgardner.
