Author Archives: Mary Briggeman

Mar
09
2017

Research from the Olde Country

by Mary Briggeman

I’m in the midst of doing a Genealogy Do-Over on my direct line files, so I’m delving into a lot of seldom-seen parts of my tree and finding a lot of new info (or at least new to me). At the moment, I’m focusing on my paternal side, which is heavily populated with German roots […]

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Feb
06
2017

Some McCune Info to Verify

by Mary Briggeman

This comes from a 1947 article in the News-Chronicle of Shippensburg and provides some interesting information about the early McCunes in the Shippensburg area. Just north of Middle Spring can be seen the old McCune house where many ancestors of Mrs. Eva Theresa McCune Wylie Polk lived. The first house on this 1500 acre plantation […]

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Feb
06
2017

Is This House Still Standing?

by Mary Briggeman

For many years, an old photo of a house has intrigued me as I vaguely recalled someone mentioning that the house had been built by Jacob Reynolds, a direct line ancestor from the 1700’s. The picture was inside a very old frame and the backing paper was falling apart. Under the backing paper were wooden […]

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