The Beitzel family
Subtitle: a history of the decendants of John George Beitzel, 1813-1893 who settled in the Casselman Valley of Garrett County, Maryland : related families, Beachy, Brenneman, Diefenbach, Klotz, Maust, Opel, Orendorf, Resh, Shoemaker, Snyder, who settled in the Casselman River Valley of Garrett County, Maryland, and of Somerset County, Pennsylvania
By: by Florence Harris Abel.
Publisher: Gateway Press; Book orders to F.H. Abel
Published: 1986
Place of publication: Baltimore; Greenbelt, MD
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
Subjects: Beitzel family.; Beachy family.; Brenneman family.
First sentence: The subjects which this book will tell about are John George Beitzel I and his four sons, Henry Beitzel, Lewis Beitzel, John Geroge Beitzel II and Christan Beitzel. These members of the Beitzel clan came to the United States in the 1850's and 1860's from the town of Birkelback, a village of Wittgentsein, a principality of Westphalia, whaich was then a par of Prussia.
Description: Table of Contents: Section I.  History of the Beitzel Family
                                    1. The Old World; 
                                    2. The New World; 
                                    3. The New Life; 
                                    4. Pioneer Families of the Casselman Valley
                     Section II  Genealogy of the Beitzel Family
                                     1. The descendants of Henry Beitzel and Mary Shoemaker Beizel
                                     2. The descendants of Lewis Beitzel
                                     3. The descendants of John George Beitzel II
                                     4 The descendants of Christain and Susannah Bowman Beitzel
                                      Appendix
                                      Index
                                      Bibliography
Notes: Bibliography: p. 295-299.
Includes indexes.