Welcome to Our Leaves & Branches!
Welcome to all of you family members, genealogists and internet wanderers. My family tree is actually a forest of assorted names and locations. Check out the branches to discover if you share a leaf or two.
Surnames (above and to the right). Here are the main family trees. My goal is to include names, dates, descendants, photographs, documents & sources for my information. These names link to locations & cemeteries. Related? Contact me to share & compare.
Locations (above and to the right). Here you can find my family names associated with each location, useful websites and blogs, books, maps and other resources that are helpful for research there. Do you have a favorite resource: archive, book, website to share? Let me know.
Cemeteries (above). The final resting places of my ancestors. Names, dates, maps & photographs are here.
Also visit my blog, Leaves & Branches for information on my current research, new discoveries, missing ancestors, memories and other miscellaneous posts. See the latest post below.
This website is always changing as I include newly uncovered information. Check back soon for more content! – – – Colleen
Hi Colleen,
I’ve really enjoyed your articles. I’m descended from John Mullin , shoemaker, who was a neighbor of your Wolf family in Abbottstown, Pennsylvania. What caught my eye when I first read your history of Johann Jonas Wolf was his mother’s surname, Orth. I spent part of a summer researching an Orth line here in Ohio. A descendant of the first Orth settler here became the head of the Ohio Roads and Bridges. He was a friend of my husband’s grandmother. They were very hard working people and well educated. I’m looking forward to reading more. Marie Reedy
I am also from Heinrich Ritter. I descend from his son, Caspar. Heinrich lived in Salisbury Twp., Lehigh County, PA. He went to Jerusalem Western Salisbury Union Church in Salisbury. This church goes back into the 1740s when the area was first settled. Heinrich and his brothers attended church in 1740s and 1750s at School house at Dillingersville, Lehigh County, PA. It was the forerunner of Old Zionsville Churches in Lehigh County, PA
I have a lot of information on the ritter