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Emma and I most cordially invite you to accompany us as our special arm-chair guest on an overland journey through the most exciting continent on the Planet Earth. We shall begin our journey in Cape Town, South Africa in the fall of 1964. During the following ten months we will travel and camp along Africas Great North Road. A variety of recently created nations and peoples, a few still struggling to be free, will be visited, among them, South Africa, Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe), Zambia, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda and the Congo. There are, at present, more than 700 separate tribes living south of the Great Sahara Desert. Obviously all of them cannot be included. However, we will visit and camp-out ...
Joseph Shirk was born 30 January 1820 in East Earl Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. His parents were Peter Shirk (1785-1845) and Sarah Sensenig. He married Esther Horning (1826-1901) in about 1850. They had thirtenn children. Joseph died 19 August 1902. Descendants and relatives lived mainly in Pennsylvania.
The first three titles in the PennDutch Amish Bed & Breakfast Mystery Series in a box set! TOO MANY CROOKS SPOIL THE BROTH This debut mystery introduces Magdalena Yoder, prim, proper, and persnickety proprietor of the PennDutch Inn, where guests luxuriate in the true "Amish experience," (read: doing Magdalena's chores and paying top dollar for the opportunity!). What at first seems to be a horrible accident (and insurance nightmare for Magdalena!) could turn out to be a much more sinister event; and when another mishap occurs, Magdalena is certain there is a killer in her group – and it's up to her to sniff out the culprit...before the world's most incompetent town sheriff throws her in ja...
Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Michael Peters who was born 26 November 1717 in Germany and immigrated to America sometime prior to the year 1758. His two known children (Michael Jr. and Stephen) were both born in Virginia. Michael Jr. (born ca. 1757) married Hannah Dillman ca. 1777. Stephen Peters (born 12 June 1748) married Molly Dillman ca. 1773. Descendants of Michael Peters Jr. and Stephen Peters lived in Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Tennessee, Missouri, Kansas, Texas, California, Washington and elsewhere.
A basic, reader-friendly introduction to American English linguistics for teachers of ESL, written in a conversational style with technical vocabulary introduced in meaningful contexts. Applications to the ESL classroom are presented in a direct way.
This book shows English teachers how they can expand their curriculum beyond the traditional emphases on grammar and syntax, to help their students learn about the many aspects of the English language--including general semantics, regional and social dialects, syntax, spelling, history of the English language, social language conventions, lexicography, and word origins. The text reviews basic aspects of English language study in classrooms, then illustrates how teachers can create student-centered, inquiry-oriented activities for the learners in their classrooms. Written from a "language in cultural and social context" perspective, this text stresses the uses of authentic language as it is u...
Michael and Christian Frantz were born in Switzerland about 1685. They and possibly another brother came to America about 1725 and settled in Pennsylvania with other Mennonites. Later descendants became members of the United Brethren Church and moved to Virginia, Ohio and Indiana before separating and gradually settling throughout the west and other areas of the United States. Several branches live in California and elsewhere.
Ancestors and descendants of Christian Bomberger emigrated from Baden, Germany in 1722. He settled in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania.