I’ve spent many years working on the Swartz/Schwartz Family of southeastern Indiana (aka Clark and adjoining counties, including Jefferson County KY really) and Pennsylvania. When John Swartz and Elizabeth Ohlweiler
Category: Swartz Schwartz Family Research
Research Report – Sarah Ann Schwartz Bennett phase 6 – September 2023
Research Report – Sarah Ann Schwartz Bennett phase 5 – June 2023
Prather, Gaither, Bennett – a very complicated network of marriage connections
As I continue to think about endogomy vs. multiple lines of descent and the impacts of both/either on my at-DNA match lists I realized I simply couldn’t hold all of
Airy Gaither – Airy Prather – Airy Hilton – Airy Swartz: where did this unusual name come from?
Airy Swartz was born about 1815, in Clark County Indiana, to newly weds John Swartz and Nancy Prather.1 Throughout her long life the census takers would have problems with her
Research Report – Sarah Ann Schwartz Bennett phase 4 – March 2022
Research Report – Sarah Ann Schwartz Bennett phase 3 – November 2021
Research Report – Sarah Ann Schwartz Bennett phase 2 – October 2021
Who was Joseph Wayman, husband of Anna Rebecca Jacobs? (And is that really how he spelled his surname?
Anna Rebecca Jacobs, daughter of a settled and prominent family in early Clark County, Indiana, married Joseph Wayman in 18551. Joseph’s family was considered “unknown” by researchers in the early