Johann Jacob Klahr of Grossbundenbach, Germany and Berks County, Pennsylvania and Some of His Descendants


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Johann Jacob Klahr, born ca. 1705 in Altersweil or Allersweil, Switzerland, immigrated to America in 1752, and settled in Berks County, Pennsylvania. Descendants have lived in Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas, and other states.










History of the Kreutz Creek Charge of the Reformed Church


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Located in the Kreutz Creek and Canadochly Valleys of York County, Pennsylvania, this history details 200 years from the first settlements in 1729. In contains histories of both Reformed and Lutheran churches and their ministers. It also contains tombstones found in the Kreutz Creek Cemetery and the Canadochly Cemetery.







History of Warren County, N.J.


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At a Snail's Pace


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Adam Schneck emigrated to the colonies in 1749 and settled in the Lehigh Valley of eastern Pennsylvania. He married Catharina and they were parents to six children. Their eldest son, Johann Peter (b.1755) married Magdalena, the daughter of Hans Niccolaus and Maria Catharina Hertzog. They were parents to nine children. Their son Peter Schneck (1779-1851) married (1) Maria Catharina Baer, the daughter of Johann Adam Baer and Anna Margaretha Peter and lived in Whitehall Twp., Northampton Co., PA. Daniel Schneck (b.1807) the second son of Peter Schneck and Cathrina Baer of Pinegrove Twp., Berks Co., PA married Magdalena Stein, daugher of Johann Georg Stein and Catharina Gebhard. They were the parents of four children. Solomon Schneck (1809-1889) was the third son of Peter Schneck and Catharina Baer of Pinegrove Twp., Berks Co., PA. He married Anna Maria Reichert, daughter of Carl and Maria Sara Reichert. They were the parents of nine children.







The Jewish Encyclopedia


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V.I:Aach-Apocalyptic lit.--V.2: Apocrypha-Benash--V.3:Bencemero-Chazanuth--V.4:Chazars-Dreyfus--V.5: Dreyfus-Brisac-Goat--V.6: God-Istria--V.7:Italy-Leon--V.8:Leon-Moravia--V.9:Morawczyk-Philippson--V.10:Philippson-Samoscz--V.11:Samson-Talmid--V.12: Talmud-Zweifel.