Allee's All Around


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Encyclopedia of American Family Names


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The definitive guide to the 5,000 most common surnames in the United States. With origins, variations, rankings, prominent bearers and published genealogies.




Ancestors & Descendants of Joseph Shomo (Shammo), Immigrant to Pennsylvania, 1750


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Joseph Chaumontet (1723-1786) immigrated from France to Berks County, Pennsylvania, and anglicized his surname to Shomo. Descendants (some spelling the surname Shomo, some Shammo) lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in France to the early 1600s.




The Descendants of Henry Gibbel


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Henry Gibbel was born probably in Germany about 1717. He came to America before 1748 when he joined a congregation of the Church of the Brethren in Pennsylvania. He married Christina (possibly Deyer) and they had at least five sons. Information on many of his descendants (12 generations) who live in Pennsylvania and elsewhere is given in this material collected from many sources by Ira Gibbel.




Ancestors and Descendants of Jeremiah Adams, 1794-1883, of Salisbury, Connecticut, Sullivan County, New York, Harbor Creek, Pennsylvania, and Vermilion, Ohio, Including Known Descendants of His Brothers and Sisters, Most of Whom Went to Michigan


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Jeremiah Adams Sr. (1794-1883) moved from Connecticut to New York, and married Catherine Bowen in 1816. She died in 1836 in Erie County, Pennsylvania, leaving Jeremiah with 8 children. In 1837 he married widow Elizabeth (Willard) Shattuck, widow of Joseph Shattuck Jr., and later they moved to Vermilion, Erie County, Ohio. Descendants and relatives also lived in Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana, Oregon, California, Texas and elsewhere. Includes family history and genealogical data for each generation back to immigrant Henry Adams (1583-1646) of Braintree, Massachusetts, and also for at least four generations of his ancestors in England.













Wolcott Genealogy


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Henry Wolcott (1578-1655), son of John Wolcot, married Elizabeth Saunders in 1606, and immigrated from England to Massachusetts, moving to Connecticut when the colony there was established, and dying in Windsor, Connecticut. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado and elsewhere. Includes history and photographs from some reunions of the Society of Descendants of Henry Wolcott.