The Swisher, Skiles, Porter, Skalinder Family
986 pages, 6 x 9" hard cover, photographs, indexed.
The Swisher, Skiles, Porter, Skalinder families joined with others as they moved from Pennsylvania to Ohio and joined the Mills, Pierce, Dangerfield and Haight folk from Canada into Illinois.
This is a monumental reference book. The index of names is the best way to move about in the book. It encompasses over 75 years of work and many more work years of the many contributors.
It contains anecdotes of the various ancestors. This gives interest and insight into our behavior as well as vignettes of history as the families moved West from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1823 and to Mendota Illinois when the railroad opened up the prairie to market their produce in 1855.
The Swisher family brains contains a God particle because they all were deeply religious starting churches and schools wherever they settled in the wilderness. Although they were pacifists by nature and by their religion, they did join militia for protection of their families and way of life. And their dear wives added Irish Scots genes as well as English, Danish and Dutch so generalizations must remain broad.
I used software to organize and handle this plethora of data. The book was put together using various formats the software provided. The results are not ideal, but workable. There is some overlap. The sources are not as strict as one would like, but they are given or questioned. A healthy skepticism is essential in all genealogy and much was completed, acknowledging its softness to make it of record. Let the reader evaluate!
Some family line names include: Beck, Bilsing, Buck, Cole, Dangerfield, Eby, Gerberick, Haight, Hoyt, McCullack, McWherter, Mills, Minnerly, Pierce, Pilss, Porter, Skalinder, Skiles, Swisher, Schweitzer, Switzer, Traylor, Wallace and more.
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