Since I haven't been able to find Esther Longenacker in Shenandoah County records yet, I decided to start with cluster genealogy. The bondsman for her marriage to Adam G. Baker was Adam Poke. It took a while to find out that his last name has also been recorded as Polk, Fuchs and Fox. Last night I found out that he attended the Old Pine Church in the county that was Lutheran and German Reformed. From reading entries in Rootsweb it looks like he came from either Berks or Philadelphia County, Penn
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Posted by dottie dorman on October 17, 2009 at 2:37pm
"It is not down in any map; true places never are." -Herman MelvilleJamaica's motto is "Out of Many One People" and although 90% of the population is comprised of African descent, a study of their culture and the people will reveal the influx and contributions of ethnic groups from India, china, Jewish, Syria, Lebanese and the lesser known Germans.In a foot note stranger than anything fiction could concoct- Industrious and hardworking Germans arrived in 1834 under the guise of working initially
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