History provides the context for understanding the actions of the people who lived in the past.  The pages linked below highlight the history relevant to the families discussed on this site.

Continental Money

Mason-Dixon Line

Ohio - Michigan Land Dispute

Ohio Land Survey

Pennsylvania Indian History

Public Land Survey System (PLSS)

Concerning Near-Relation Marriages

History of Swiss and German Names

Old German Baptist Brethren

Summer of 1934: Statewide Heat Wave

Tunkers

Types of Germans

18th Century German Immigration

Neptune (ship), 1754

Palatine Origins in Europe

Palatine Ships

American Migration Timeline

Connecticut Western Claims

Journey to Pennsylvania

Migration Patterns 1780-1850 Northeast Ohio

Migration Routes 1800-1820

Pennsylvania 30th Infantry

Pennsylvania 49th Infantry

Pennsylvania Militia

Swiss-Germans and the Revolutionary War

Toledo War