Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania


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Genealogy-Family History-Biography. Containing Historical Sketches of Old Families and of Representative and Prominent Citizens, Past and Present. In two volumes. Illustrated.










A Genealogy of the Kreiser Family


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Frederick Kreiser was born in 174? in Switzerland. He is believed to have had twenty children. Traces the descendants of two of his sons, Casper (1767-1854) and Frederick (1774-1849). They emigrated in about 1770 and settled in Lebanon County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.




A Brief History of Bishop Henry Funck and Other Funk Pioneers, and a Complete Genealogical Family Register, with Biographies of Their Descendants from the Earliest Available Records to the Present Time


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A genealogy of the descendants of Henry Funck born in Europe. He immigrated to America in 1719 and settled at Indian Creek, Franconia Township, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania where he died in 1760. He married Anne Meyer.







The Philip Brown Family of Tulpehocken Valley


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Johan Philip Braun (1697-1767), son of Johann Jost Braun, was born in Udenheim, Hessen, Germany. He immigrated to New York in 1709 with his family. He later settled in Pennsylvania. His wife, Elisabeth Magdalena Losch (1699-1763), was the daughter of John Balthaser Losch and Susanna Phillippina Gerina. Descendants lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Ontario, Iowa, Minnesota, and elsewhere.