ROOTS & BRANCHES

Diligent readers of this article no doubt are aware that your “Roots & Branches” columnist gets of inquiries. And while many of them deal with my German genealogy specialty—particularly people trying to locate the village of origin for an immigrant ancestor—it can be truthfully said that there are nuances to each and every question I …

Last week’s “Roots & Branches” column made it seem probable my former colleague Katy Barnes’s Bodenhorn lineage (her maiden surname ancestor) stemmed from a Hessian soldier named Ludwig Bodenhorn, who was found on a 1783 tax list for what’s today Bethel Township, Lebanon County. So, I went on visits to the Pennsylvania State Archives and …

I had the pleasure of working with Katy Barnes, a senior researcher and editor at Legacy Tree Genealogists, but it was only toward the end of that time that I found out she had some Pennsylvania roots. And not just any Pennsylvania roots but her maiden surname line (Bodenhorn) spent at least a couple of generations …