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Ancestry/Genealogy

dgibby

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4. Thanks, Shanti.

Reply to shanti (Original post)

Mon Feb 23, 2015, 11:32 AM

Feb 2015

My paternal gg grandparents are my brick walls. so I started doing "cluster" research to try to discover more info about him. His first wife was a "Camper" aka Kemper, and althought the Craft/Kraft/Krafft name doesn't appear in the Germanna Colony, the Kemper name does! It appears these 2 families migrated down the Valley of Va. together (from Faquier Co. to Botetourt, then finally, Craig Co.). Although not finding my line in the Germanna Colonies is disappointing, it is encouraging to be able to narrow the search area for where the 2 families are found together.

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The Germanna Colony [View all] shanti Feb 2015 OP

At a quick glance some of those surnames are in my husband's tree csziggy Feb 2015 #1

Each wave shanti Feb 2015 #2

Some people have taken the Kynerd surname back into Germany csziggy Feb 2015 #3

Thanks, Shanti. dgibby Feb 2015 #4

Glad to help! shanti Feb 2015 #5