Anonymous Nagel

The western PA families I most focus on are Ireland surname (Allegheny County) and McCool (all over PA). I also work on all Sollenberger lines, but those are mostly southeast PA. I'm heavily involved in Y-DNA test management and one-name studies on all three surnames.

Hi, I saw you have some information on the Miller Walker's who immigrated from Ireland. I entered a Robert Walker from Letterkenny, County Tyrone, Ireland who married a Jane (Miller) and had a daughter Mary Ann Walker who was born around 24 AUG 1781. They immigrated into Philadelphia on 22 AUG 1786 according to a family genealogy book in my possession called "Climbing the Smith Family Tree" by Ann Smith Melbourne. They settled in what was then Hamilton township, Cumberland County, PA which is now known as St. Thomas, Franklin County, PA. Does this fit with your Robert, Jane and son James? I went ahead and made a profile for Jane Miller (Miller-83660) because I have no certain date on her birth. Looking forward to your reply.

Thanks for what you are doing by adding people from the histories. I am descended from both east and west Pennsylvanians (Luzerne and Crawford County). You helped me figure out that my dead end John Ingham was actually Humphrey John Ingham! Yeah!

Happened upon your name today as I was working on one of my ancestor's profiles. It seems that Western Pennsylvania is more or less the same as the Fort Pitt region from the time of the French Indian Wars. It was the largest settlement in a huge circular area around today's Pittsburgh, where folks went to trade and get supplies, which included Western Pennsylvania, nearby Ohio, nearby West Virginia, and nearby Maryland. I had a lot of ancestors in that area, so have noted fluidity of movement of families in the Fort Pitt region, among nearby areas in those states too, from generation to generation. Sometimes they are found in PA in one of the counties surrounding Pittsburgh, then found across the river in OH, back to PA, to WV panhandle, and the arm of MD directly under PA, which is where one one of my ancestors who married someone across the river in OH is from, but the family also lived in more than one of the counties surrounding Fort Pitt. I finally figured out to search for family names in all those states, instead of only PA. I like the idea of a Western PA place study, but I also like the idea of a Fort Pitt place study that would be Western PA and spill over into the nearby areas of WV, OH, MD. However it would be difficult to categorize and it would be frontier settlements pre and post revolution before and after statehood.

Found two useful Western PA websites today while searching for source material. There is an excellent website for Hopewell Township - <https://www.hopewelltwp.com/187/History> and an extensive one about the History of Beaver County Pennsylvania - <https://www.pa-roots.com/index.php/pacounties/beaver-county/283-history-of-beaver-county-pennsylvania-and-its-centennial-celebration> which I have yet to explore.

Hi,

I noticed that you are focusing on adding a specific region of Pennsylvania, Thank you! Have you considered starting a One Place Study? Every profile you add helps other reach their goals and possibly break down a few brick walls in the meantime. Have a fabulous week!

Mindy

I agree to both the merges you propose (Wagenseller and Riter), but I'm not sure of the procedure from here and afraid of messing something up. What specifically do I need to do? Thanks.

Anonymous, I just looked over your work on the Pennsylvania Daubenspecks. I really appreciate your additions. I've been pounding my own Daubenspeck brick wall in Butler for almost a decade now. I should have done what you're doing: just go for it and hope something falls into place. Thank you!

In the same area were some Peytons, Wicks, Youngs, Pettigrews, and others of interest to me. And also, god alone knows where I saw this years ago, but a "Millersville?" or something like that in Butler where many of these families might have settled circa 1820 or so. If you come across anything interesting about these families please drop me a line. Jacob Daubenspeck and Sarah Young.

Anonymous I rejected the merge between Lovinus Chase (Chase-7056) and Lovina Chase (Chase-7054) because they are twins. Lovinus is male and Lovina is female. I know it's odd that their names are so closely a like.

Anon, making more than one thousand contributions in September added so much to the breadth and depth of our Shared Tree. The Appreciation Team thanks YOU!

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

Thanks Anon for proposing the Kirkland-1039 merge and an even bigger thank you for tidying the profile up after it!

Cheers

The Appreciation Team thanks for you for efforts toward making our Shared Tree the best it can be with your 1000+ contributions during August 2019. You are an important part of what we are all about!

Pippin Sheppard

WikiTree’s Appreciation Team

I think we are related via Fraser/ McPherson somewhere. I would love to hear from you

Hi I think we merged your Hugh with my Hugh Scott ?

Howdy!

The Appreciation Team thanks you for all for your hard work for reaching 1000+ (actually, over 5600!!) contributions for the month July 2019. Onward and upward!

Pip Sheppard

WikiTree Appreciation Team

Hello!

Very well done on your making 1,000 or more contributions to WikiTree in June 2019! We commend and appreciate all of your time and effort in helping to grow and perfect our Shared Tree. Keep up the great work!

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