Forefather Farm: We Restored a Pennsylvania German Farmstead History Family names from first names

Family names from first names

and New York)

Her work also shows how early Pennsylvania Germans defined their own identities

who lived almost 500 years ago

Forefather Farm: We Restored a Pennsylvania German Farmstead History Family names from first namesIn 1982, the author and her husband bought an abandoned farmstead, complete with seven outbuildings, in Bucks County, PA. They spent the next thirty years researching, restoring, and preserving the farm in an ambitious do it yourself project that earned placement on the National Register of Historic Places. This book details their adventures, reflecting the sense of humor that has sustained them through the challenges as they maintained the exterior