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From: Bonnie Blau <>
Subject: [PABERKS] Mining ebay
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2001 05:38:37 +0200


*Fraktur: I can;t read the last name, but perhaps the dates will help.
Jacob ____ and his wife ____ had a son named ____ born 14 April, 1840,
baptized 14 June 1840. Lehigh County? Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1439956902

*Fraktur: Samuel STRAUSS and his wife Catherina GERHART had a son,
Samuel Hughurus ?, born 8 April 1850, baptized 27 April 1859 in Lehigh
(?) County. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/ebayISAPI.dll?MfcISAPICommand=ViewItem&item=1439958759&t=0&r=0&indexURL=2&photoDisplayType=2

*Fraktur: Johann Jacob SUR (?) and his wife Elisabeth ____, had a
daughter Catherina born 30 Jan 1845, baptized 7 Feb 1845 in Windsor Twp.
Berks County. Sponsors: Johan Jacob BAR (andhis wife?) Catherina.
Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1440421776

*Penmanship sampler: In 1846, Lebanon County, Joseph SNAVALY made a
sample of his handwriting. Also on the sampler is the name John
KREIDER, who paid Snavaly a dollar. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1156387885

*Book: Berks County Pennsylvania Church Records of the 18th Century,
Volume 3, by F. Edward Wright. 320 pages. Seller says includes records
of Frieden;s Union Church. Allemangel Lutheran, Blue Mountain, Rosenthal
(New Bethel), Dunkel;s, Windsor (Ziegel's), Reeds, Bern, Tulpehocken of
Christ (Jefferson Twp.), Host, Haines, and Rev. Waldschmidt's Pastoral
records. Generous selection from index given at site. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1607033242

*Book: "Abstracts of Berks County Wills 1752-1785", abstracted by Jacob
Martin and John P. Smith. 228 pages. Selection of Index at site;
Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1608291400

*Book: "Berksiana, 1776-1976", by Charles Schuyler Castner. 350 pages
of history and lore. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1441014640

*Restaurant: Landis Store Hotel, in the village of Landis Store. 1.6
acres,
Historic 2 and a half story Stone & frame building (addition). Includes
two story garage and rental house on property. Starting bid is
$550,000, but there is a reserve, so the price is higher. Many photos.
Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1608839722

*Book: "History of the Reformed Church in Reading, PA" by Daniel
Miller. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1439900403

*Newspapers: two 1949 copies of "The Pennsylvania Dutchman" published
by Franklin and Marshall College. Articles include (seller's list):
Shliffeltown, Rauch's Penna Dutch dialect writings, Colonial
Housekeeping, Lehigh Valley Past, Saffron Cake, Will and Administrations
of Lehigh Valley, Lutherans in the North Branch Valley, Pennsylvania
German wills, farming in Oley Valley, Lehigh County Naturalization
Records, and more. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1440697984

*Book: "It's an Old Pennsylvania Custom", by Edwin Valentine Mitchell
(1947).
Chapter titles and list of names and places show it's of value to the
Berks County genealogist. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1440751931

*Booklet: Boyertown Centennial (1966), 108 pages. History. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1440818041

*Book: Vol. I of the History of German Lutheran and Reformed Churches in
the Pennsylvania Field, 1717-1793 by Charles H.Glatfelter. Published in
1980 by The Pennsylvania German Society . 551 pages, and indexed.
Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1440888606

*Book: 1918 Berks County, Pa POSA Service Roster. Features all the
names of the veterans who were in the Army serving in WWI. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1158607274

*CD: 1830 Berks County Census. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1609171694
*
*CD: Family Treemaker #305, 1850 Pennsylvania Census. 11 CDs. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1609350837

*Photos: 4 photos of ladies taken in Reading around the turn of the
20th century. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1156827098

*Unusual photo: A woman, Rachel BAHN, of Hellam, York Co., PA, in her
bed reading, taken about 1875. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1158453792

*Photo postcard, about 1920: Bethany Orphans' Home. Group "making
fancy work."
Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1158006140

*Deed: On October 27, 1862, land is sold in Lancaster, PA, by A. Henery
STAUFFER and his wife Rachel, local merchants, to Benjamin BUCKWATER, a
local coal merchant. Click:

http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=1158618420

That's it for this week.

Bonnie Blau
Researching the early BUCKS/BUCHS/BUX/BOOKS/BAX family - found in 18th
Century Dauphin County, Lebanon County, and Berks County. Searching for
birth date and other records of John/Johannes Bucks (etc.) who died in
1785, probably in Berks.


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