Family Files February 2022 - Person Sheet
Family Files February 2022 - Person Sheet
NameImmigrant Johannes SCHONBERGER/SHOENBERGER 
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, MMisc. Notes
Completed Y-DNA tests show descendants of John Shinabarger 1764, Jacob Shinabery 1760, Michael Shinaberry 1773, and Michael Shanabarger 1773 are confirmed as sharing a common ancestor. It is hypothesis how these families are linked, when, and to whom.
AUGUSTA, PENDLETON, HIGHLAND AND POCAHONTAS PIONEERS - The majority of Germans who fled the Rhineland for freedom from oppression and endless war first settled in the counties of Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks, York and around Philadelphia. When the land was taken up they moved southward. The Germans in the Valley of Virginia came across the Potomac above Harper’s Ferry from Maryland and Pa. The narrow neck of western MD was traversed and the Shenandoah Valley was ahead. There were also a few who came from NJ and NY and a few came from the east Virginia counties of Spottsylvania, Orange and Madison; and also from the German settlements of NC. Many of these settlers continue to seek religious freedoms and many where Dunkers, PA Dutch, and strong Lutheran backgrounds.
Early emigrants came into these counties in the mid to late 1700s. By the first decade of the 1800s they were moving further west into OH.
AUGUSTA, PENDLETON, HIGHLAND AND POCAHONTAS PIONEERS - The majority of Germans who fled the Rhineland for freedom from oppression and endless war first settled in the counties of Lancaster, Lebanon, Berks, York and around Philadelphia. When the land was taken up they moved southward. The Germans in the Valley of Virginia came across the Potomac above Harper’s Ferry from Maryland and Pa. The narrow neck of western MD was traversed and the Shenandoah Valley was ahead. There were also a few who came from NJ and NY and a few came from the east Virginia counties of Spottsylvania, Orange and Madison; and also from the German settlements of NC. Many of these settlers continue to seek religious freedoms and many where Dunkers, PA Dutch, and strong Lutheran backgrounds.
Early emigrants came into these counties in the mid to late 1700s. By the first decade of the 1800s they were moving further west into OH.