July 2012 Blog Posts (24)

I knew this was bound to happen and I have to correct some errors. The first concerns the three Catherine Kremers or Kraemer. Philip Wolford was married to Catherine Kraemer and they lived in West Manheim Twp., York Co PA. Some of their children went to Centre Co. PA.  Her name is correct. I mentioned that their son John was married to a Catherine Kremer. That is not correct. He was married to Catherine FUHRMAN of York Co PA. Her dates are however correct. Their son John was married to…

i wanted to thank you Genealogy Wise with out Genealogy Wise i would have not found my birth father yesterday

I AM SO HAPPY I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR MY BIRTH FATHER SINCE I WAS 16 YRS OLD I FINALLY FOUND HIM  A LOT OF TEARS CAME OUT I FOUND OUT HE HAD MY PIC IN HIS WALLET AND HE HAS NEVER ONCE STOP SEARCHING FOR ME I WAS TOLD BY MY MOTHER HE NEVER WANTED ME I FOUND MY DAD AND I AM NEVER GIVING HIM UP I STILL CAN'T STOP CRYING I AM JUST SO HAPPY .

  Just opened my mail to learn that Rhode Island has opened up the Adoption Records for people over 25 years of age.

  I know a touchy subject but recently learned almost every family or so it seems has adoption  lurking in it's  background.

  Does not mean any one was bad or not  liked or mean, it just means that some times it was felt that others could do a       do  a better job or they had no way to support or keep you as a person.

   I do not…

The following is from the will of Philip Wohlford, son of the previous  Philip who moved over the mountain to Sugar Valley in Clinton Co PA where he lived outside Loganton. He and his wife are buried in the cemetery behind what had been the Lutheran Church. Loganton suffered a disastrous fire in 1917 and half of the town was destroyed including the original Lutheran Church. A bank occupies that spot today. The Lutheran Church rebuilt caty cornered across the intersection from the original…