Miller/March/Minneman/Lehman/Robinson/Benner/Bush/Herman/Rees/Singer/Grusenmeyer/Faber/Taber
Did your family travel with these families.
Now, about why they traveled? More/better land; new horizons; death of
the patriarch in the family, which often meant that the
family farm was inherited by the eldest brother and the rest took their
inheritances and went to find their own space; other
relatives/former neighbors beckoned others to follow them to a new
location; Philadelphia was an English city, and the Germans
liked to keep to themselves pretty much, speaking their own language and
following their own customs and religion (also the
English distrusted the strange "foreigners" and probably made them know
they should leave the area). Sometimes the Germans
would travel to a place and establish a German village, and it remained
that way for two or three generations. Some still have
signs of German founders, in churches, building designs, etc.
If you believe your family travel with one of these families listed
above please contact me. I believe they came from Pittsburgh, Pa through
OH.
Charlotte