Originally from the South Hills area of Pittsburgh, PA, I now live north of Philadelphia, PA and have been involved with genealogy my entire life. Having relatives that have been in the United States since the 1700's makes it a long, tough, interesting journey to find out information about them. I especially enjoy researching the various wars that they have been involved in from the Revolutionary War through the current ones. The internet makes things a lot easier than it used to be.

I am always interested in certain family names such as: Fife/Patterson, Breinig/Lattien, Brown/Thomas and Cyprych/Rudzki from the Pittsburgh area. The other names are Lare/Austin, McKinley/Hasenpflug, Miller/Weisler and Sheeler/Retallack from the Philadelphia/Kulpmont areas.