The Schrock-Birkey News Blog
New Park Family Information
Today much new Park information has been added to the Family Tree section of this website, thanks to cousin Susan Avery, Lineage Leader for the Dr. Roger Parke line for the Parke Society. The best way to find the new info is to click on “What’s New” in the first...
Association for the Preservation of the Anabaptist-Mennonite Family Cemetery of Rhodes
Note: The material has been translated from the French, so you will find a few English oddities, but it is all understandable. Amendment of Statutes General meeting on December 15, 2018Article 10: Board of Directors The association is administered by a Board of...
Four Hundred Years of History from England to Illinois – New Article
Follow the 400-year path of my Park ancestry line, through the passage of time and generational migrations, as it evolves from early English Church of England dissidents to connect in Illinois with my Schrock ancestry line in an Anabaptist Christian community--told in...
Two Illinois Women’s 1930’s Diaries
After two years of transcription and preparation, a unique book has been released that will be of interest to a variety of history buffs, including Zehr, Heiser, and Schrock descendants, as well as those eager to read stories of Mennonite families of...
The Store – New Article Added
Just posted under Articles > Related Families: A downloadable copy of the 71-page book - The Store - by Mary Ann Jost and Gerald Heiser. A history of the first 60 years of the Heiser & Ingold grocery store in Fisher, Illinois. Included is...
Cemetery Article Added
New content has been added to the "Articles" navigation -- a short history of the East Bend Mennonite and Memorial Gardens Cemetery (Fisher, Champaign County, IL), first published in the April 2018 issue of Mennonite Family History, along with photos and a...
Bavarian Bircky/Bürcky History
New content has been added under the "Articles" navigation -- an in-depth investigation of four Bircky/Bürcky families that lived in Bavaria at the beginning of the 1800s. Many of their descendants immigrated to America. First published in the April 2018...
Three New Articles Posted: Mills, Dent and Fenwycke Families of England
In the navigation bar, under Articles > Park-Parke, three new articles have been posted--three allied families to my Park ancestry, Mills, Dent, and Fenwycke: The Family of Quaker, John Mills (abt 1689-1760) The Dent Family of Northern England Family...
Rhodes Anabaptist-Mennonite Cemetery
Photo taken by Donna Birkey while visiting the cemetery in 2008. In the beginning of 2017, an association was formed for the preservation of the Anabaptist-Mennonite cemetery in Rhodes, France. It had become overgrown, some gravestones were...
Daniel Schrock and Barbara Yoder line of Schrags
Daniel D. Schrock (1821-1880) and Barbara Yoder (1830-1877) arrived in Aurora, Preston County, West Virginia, about 1859 from Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Their descendants hold a reunion every year at Deep Creek Lake, near Oakland, Garrett...
100th Anniversary, Marriage of Alvin Birkey and Amelia Zehr
Today, January 29, 2013, marks the 100th anniversary of the marriage of Alvin Birkey (1891-1973) and Amelia Zehr (1891-1965). They were married at the home of Peter and Barbara Heiser Zehr, rural Foosland, Illinois by Samuel Gerber of Tremont, Illinois....
Illinois Stalter Relatives Sought
Name: Priscilla (Stalter) Mendez Email: [email protected] Comment: Hello, I will be visiting the Eureka area on Oct. 5,6 and 7, 2012 and will use information from your blog to help with my Family tree. Doing this is new for me but my father...