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Deffler
Copeland

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Powers
Knepper

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Stouffer
Seyler
White
Barnhart

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Shockey
Dando
Gettig
Allison
Rosensteel
Patterson
McCarthy
Thomas

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Rudy
Carnahan
McVay
Pringle
Holtzer
Weaver

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Brosius
McGrew
Brown
Berry
Kerr
Cable
Schmidt
Lukens
Mechling
Gongaware

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Kennedy
McCormick
Passmore
Porter
Frey
Wertz
Warner
Weiss
Kohler
Miller

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Rob
Cronenberg
Mayer
Lauer

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Fischer
Riedenger

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Goring

My ancestors were generally part of the German/Scots-Irish immigration of the 18th and early 19th centuries. Although this preceded the massive wave in the mid-1800s when half the population of Ireland and an equal number of Germans arrived in America...still wars, famine, religious persecution and unemployment impelled a significant number of families to emigrate from Europe. With some temporary detours to Maryland and Ohio, my family branches ended up in Pennsylvania, spanning across the state from Bucks to Washington Counties. By 1850 all could be found there except the Dandos, who were still in Wales, and the descendants gradually ended up in the towns of Derry and Greensburg in Westmoreland County by the time of my parents.

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