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Germans in Pennsylvania
My great-grandfather, Mahlon Bolton Kiefer, was the descendant of Germans who settled in the Philadelphia area in the 1800's. His wife, Lena Schwager, was descended from pre-Revolutionary War German immigrants in nearby Montgomery County.

• Index to my Pennsylvanians of German ancestry:
• Pennsylvanian German Calendar

Philadelphia Families

• Pedigree of Mahlon Bolton Kiefer
• Descendants of George C. Hunn

Montgomery County Families

• Pedigree of Lena Schwager
• Descendants of Franklin Schwager
• Researching the parentage of Sophia Weand

Special thanks to:

Mike Osiol, who provided me with so many pictures, obituaries, and other information on my Montgomery County Schwager family that I may never get it all entered!

My late cousin (once removed), Charles Quinter, who gladly shared his research with me. Wish you were here to see all that I've found!

• ...altho we be absent from each other in body the mind is not far separated and altho a waste of water divides our dwellings and a different country and a different climet be our sets yet the mind traverses the mighty deep and reached the furthest corner of the globe in fanciful imaginations and in visions of thought...— Alexander Russell, letter, 1842
• We may perhaps never see each other on this side time But the river Jordan is before us both and it is but a little and we shall be oblidged to pass over— Alexander Russell, letter, 1842

This website is a work-in-progress, and includes my speculations and tentative conclusions.
Additions? Corrections? Questions? Contact me: Lauren Snellgrove