February 24, 2009
The article is made up of three parts:
Part 1
From Ancient History to Switzerland and France
Part 2
The History of the Family of Peter Yordy (1815-1897)
The Yordy Siblings of Central Illinois—Peter Yordy, Christian Yotty, and Jacobina (Philabena) Yordy
Part 3
Yordy Addendum
French Birth Records and Ancestry of Peter Yordy
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February 24, 2009
by Donna Schrock Birkey
Originally published in the Winter 2002 issue (Vol. XXIX, No. 4)
Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly (http://www.imhgs.org)
(Used with permission of original publisher)
(Additional information has been found about the Johannes Schrock family since this 2002 article and that information is reflected in other sections of the website.)
As I became interested in genealogy twenty-some years ago [...]
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