Walter’s life across two armies →
British and Canadian records connect the soldier in Malta, Bermuda and Halifax with Mary’s father in Ontario.
Both families · A living history
What's new.
For everyone who's already wandered through these pages: here's where to find the stories, photographs and details we've added since. This history is still growing.
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Meghan’s family · Recent additions and reading improvements
Regina’s working life →
A fuller portrait of her Philadelphia childhood and thirty-one years at Muhlenberg College.
Earlier generations in Somerset and Fermanagh →
Meet the Read and Killymore Brock families, with the proposed relationships distinguished from documented records.
More lives beyond the pedigree →
Explore 52 reviewed entries, including Mitchell siblings and the Westcott connections.
Read the records without losing your place →
Enlarge photographs, maps and documents, move through related images, then close the viewer to return to your reading.
Family history additions
Family researchDon's maternal ancestors
The brothers at Springdale Farm
Joseph and Howard Beavers farmed together for thirty years. Meet Cora and Bertha Shaffer and the Pickel–Hildebrant family through a 1936 obituary and an original genealogy page.
Explore the family history ↗New family storyDon's ancestors
From Klinesville to Flemington
The Kline, Roberson and Runk families step into view through a crossroads tavern, a visit remembered in a diary, Manuel Kline's Civil War service, and sisters Mary and Letitia in Flemington.
Read the family story ↗Expanded biographyDon Melick
More of Don's Van Sickle and Kline family
Don's family history now leads through his grandmother Mary Lynn Van Sickle to Cornelia Kline and the wider New Jersey family.
Jump to the new passage ↗Historical photograph15th New Jersey Volunteers
The regiment photograph
A family-supplied photograph of the regiment's noncommissioned officers, accompanied by its original handwritten caption and historical catalog attribution naming Manuel Kline.
See the photograph and its story ↗Earlier stories remain available in each family’s collection. This page records selected additions and improvements.
There is always more to discover
A record becomes a name. A name becomes a life.
Have a photograph, a memory, a correction, or a question? Family contributions are always welcome.