Greathouse County

Please join us in our bold Greathouse County project!

We need your help in correcting past assumptions about events, lineages and relationships by providing documentation from books, census records, court records, tax lists, vital and other records.

Browse our existing Greathouse County articles, indexed by state below, and then create a documented article for your Greathouse kith and kin, noting the counties and states where events occurred in their lives. 

Send your article to Greathouse Point or please contact us if you have questions. 

Regarding the search for published matter, Henry Reed Stiles related in, A hand-book of practical suggestions: for the use of students in genealogy :

This, we admit, presents a herculean task to the genealogist; but he must face it bravely if he wishes to succeed. It will not do to "leave a stone unturned," for, under the very stone which he neglects to turn may lurk the very thing he is most in need of. And the fitting in place of all this heterogeneous material will prove a constant delight and stimulus. You will rise up in the morning with the feeling that a happy day's task awaits you in grappling with a puzzle, and will (let us hope) retire at night with the satisfaction of having found one " missing link," or having established, beyond doubt, one important fact. Occasionally you will "cut the Gordian knot" of a tangle which has long resisted your efforts: and, as one thing after another slips easily into its proper place and sequence, will feel that you have done ten days' work in one. May you have many such "red-letter" days!

The Acknowledgment of Sources of Information is a duty obligatory on every one who prepares and publishes a genealogy. It is a matter not only of courtesy, but of common honesty. Clinch every fact stated, with the source from which it was obtained; if the statement proves to be inaccurate or misstated, your reference to its origin throws the onus of the error back upon its original author.

"A twisted cord of many threads will not easily break." -- Rev. Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, August 15, 1748. View @ Google Books

Greathouse County Articles - A collection of articles covering events, legal issues, maps or other issues which are relevant to one or more states.

Sources:

Henry Reed Stiles, A hand-book of practical suggestions: for the use of students in genealogy, J. Munsell's sons, 1899. Original from the University of Wisconsin - Madison, Digitized Jul 15, 2008. View @ Google Books

Evangelical Lutheran Ministerium of Pennsylvania and the Adjacent States, Documentary history of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states: Proceedings of the annual conventions from 1748 to 1821, Board of Publication of the General Council of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in North America, 1898. Original from Harvard University, Digitized Sep 11, 2007. Page 94, "A twisted cord of many threads will not easily break." -- Rev. Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, August 15, 1748. View @ Google Books

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