Christian Hirschberger I (ca. 1720/1725-1808/1809) immigrated from Germany to Philadelphia in 1749, settled in Shenandoah County, Virginia, and married Caroline (Funk?) before 1776. Descendants (chiefly spelling the surname Harshbarger) lived in Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Texas and elsewhere.

This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.

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Rev. Harry James Collins (1869-1948) of Ohio married Mabel Darst Harshberger (1873-1953) in 1892. Contains information on their children and on their ancestral lines. The Collins line is traced back to Jonathan Collins (1812-1897) born in Ohio or Virginia and the Harshberger/Harshbarger line is traced back to Henry Harshbarger, Sr. (1774-1847) of Virginia and Ohio.

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