Norman Gasbarro | March 20, 2011
For the 200th Anniversary of Klingerstown, Pennsylvania, a Bicentennial Book Committee was formed and the result was a professionally produced commemoration of its history, Klingerstown Bicentennial Album, 1807-2007. A large section of that book pertained to the Civil War and the soldiers who served from Klingerstown area. The Klingerstown area includes parts of three counties […]
Norman Gasbarro | February 23, 2011
Nicholas Adams (1843-1927) was born in Sacramento, Hubley Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. Some sources give his birth date as 20 April 1843 while other sources give it in March. He was the son of Nicholas Adams and Salome [Hoffa] Adams of Sacramento, who had twenty-one children, among them the sisters Hannah Adams and Ellen Adams, […]
Norman Gasbarro | January 22, 2011
According to information published in Our Dietrich Lines (2007), a published work on the Dietrich family, there are two immigrant Dietrich ancestors who came to Pennsylvania and whose descendants settled in the Lykens Valley area. The author, William Dietrich, carefully traces all the descendants of Michael Dietrich (his father’s line) and Lenhart Dietrich (his mother’s […]
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