I am currently researching the Reddig family and the Ream family from Lancaster County

All my ancesters started out in Pennsylvania and most of them stayed. My Belgian ancesters, DUEZ settled in Clearfield County. My English ancesters, the TRIMBATH family started out in Bedford County and as they moved north in Pa. they married into the WILKINS family that had been here since the late 1600's and originally came from Wales. My COLE family were in Huntingdon County and ended up in Clearfield County, Allegheny County, and Washington County. I don't know where they came from yet. I have GIBSON's from Bedford County, JOHNSON's and LYTLEs from Clearfield and Centre counties. I've done a lot of searching in mostly central Pa. at courthouses and historical/genealogical societies. Pa. is a tough state to find information in. And since I'm one of the few that left the state, it's not easy to do the research.

Hello - my one side of family came from Pennsylvania, but most of them left the state. Chester county was the popular place for my family. Way, Peirce, Addleman, Brown, Stapleton/Stepleton - and half of them were Quakers.....love those records they kept!!!

PA is a very difficult state to find stuff. When I was in Wisconsin, I could find any record from any point in time that I wanted. Here, it's not so easy. Thankfully, most of the family I'm researching is in Lancaster County (Adamstown and Reamstown) and I'm right next door in Berks County, so going to historical societies and grave yards isn't too hard to do. Although I'm beginning to think that Reamstown may have been named after someone in my Ream family. I have no proof of that at all; it's just a thought. That certainly should make things easier to find though .. or so you'd think

hi Caro-

I took a quick peak at wikipedia(not always the best source, but its a place to start)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reamstown,_Pennsylvania

The town was named after Eberhard Ream (Johann Eberhardt Riehm 1687–1779), whose son, Tobias Ream, founded it in the 1740s. It was originally known as "Zoar" according to a local highway marker.

I use Google a lot when I get new searches to do, if its a question of census records, I go to Ancestry, family search/or HQ, but for history, I love Google. :)

Kate

I'm researching Fletcher, Evans, Maisch, Golze, Steere, and other related families in PA, mostly in Philadelphia, Montgomery and Chester Counties. I use the familysearchlabs site for their death records from 1803-1915, really good free resource, wish they had one for births.

I also use genealogybank and newspaperarchive for articles. Genealogybank is great for Philadelphia until the mid 1920s, NewspaperArchive is good for Chester County.

Kate

Hey Kate

I actually just heard back from the historical society in Cocalico and she confirmed that information, too!! How exciting! I think I may actually have a Tobias Ream in my files too!

And now, I still haven't gotten that information I was supposed to get to you. Maeleigh has been very clingy lately and I just haven't been able to get a lot done. But hopefully I'll find it soon!