Chapter 1 · Now available
The Petermanns of Mörzheim
The German villages, family origins, church life, and the world the Petermanns knew before emigration.
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Chapter 2 · Now available
Hans Velten “Felty” Petermann and Anna Elisabetha
Between the Old World and the New: parents, children, evidence, and the family's first Atlantic crossings.
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Hans Peter Peterman, the Ship Patience, and Whiskey Mill
Hans Peter's 1748 Atlantic crossing, his Pennsylvania land, family, work, and the property remembered as Whiskey Mill.
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Michael Peterman and Anna Maria
From Mörzheim to Lovely Springs: land, family, militia service, community, and Revolutionary-era records.
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John Peterman and Barbara Eckert
A hewed-log cabin on the Sandusky and the family's 1827 move into Crawford County, Ohio.
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Jacob Peterman and Mary Ann Cornman
Family, mills, migration, loss, and a new beginning on the Iowa prairie.
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John Pierce Peterman and Mary Deliah Scarlett
Farm life and family in East River Township near New Market, Iowa.
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A Handsome Dog: Elmo and Jessie Peterman
The farm, faith, family stories, photographs, and memories of Jacob Elmo Peterman Sr. and Jessie Gorley Thompson.
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Jacob Elmo “Pete” Peterman Jr. and Zesta Gertrude Corkle
Military service, farming, the Ford tractor dealership, family life, and the next generation.
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DNA, Deep Ancestry, and the Peterman Paternal Line
Genetic genealogy, evidence, and the deeper history behind the documented family line.
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