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Family Tree Update

February 13, 2010

Today the Family Tree was updated and now contains 11,656 names. A few corrections were made and quite a few new Joseph and Marie Neuhauser Schrag descendants added. Two more articles are now available: one is the story of Amos and Bertha Birkey Hieser of Fisher, Illinois, and the other tells about the ancestry and [...]

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Amos and Bertha: A Tribute by a Niece

February 13, 2010

by Ruth Hieser Oyer   Condensed and adapted by Donna Birkey from an unpublished manuscript archived at East Bend Mennonite Church, Fisher, IL. Originally published in the Spring 2008 issue (Vol. XXXV, No. 1) Illinois Mennonite Heritage Quarterly  (http://www.imhgs.org) (Used with permission of original publisher)   _______________________________________________ After a four-year courtship, Amos Hieser and Bertha [...]

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