Annals of Family History: Our First War Here

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My greatsomething grandfather Jacob arrived in the American colonies from Darmstadt-Hesse, Germany in about 1750 as an indentured servant. His brother Sebastian apparently bugged out and headed home at the end of his service, but Jacob liked it enough to stay in "Pennsylvanian Dutch" country with the other Germans. My family has had a presence in

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[pilarcruz]

That's neato. Fortunately for me, my family never throws anything away, and my grandmother is a repository of Leahy family documents. The only price I have to pay is listening to my grandfather talk about how I'm almost 30 and unmarried. Dick.

[kiteflier98]

Thank you so much for posting this! It's always great to get these tips having genealogy for an interest. Those scans are really cool, btw. It's neat to see how many different signatures there are and how a person's name could change from the appearance of the writing.

[kennfusion]

I see, so this is what they sign for payroll? No wonderthey are so well preserved....proof they paid them.

[baconmeteor]

That form has a Y1.8K bug

[breezygirl]

Those are really interesting. My aunt has been heavily into genaology for about 10 years now and uncoverned a ton of information. Our family was also very concentrated in the PA area and one line came over with William Penn.