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"From the Penns to the Present," a series of custom-made products tracing properties from William Penn to the present-day owners.
Bern Church old graveyard in Berks County, PA
Jim Beidler is available for research projects, tutorials and custom-designed assisted research. For genealogical research projects, a 10-hour minimum commitment at $75 an hour is required. Other types of services are negotiable. Contact Jim.
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James M. Beidler came by his German genealogy expertise honestly – it took him more than 20 years of searching to find any ancestry that wasn’t from Germany! Beidler is a columnist for German Life magazine and is considered a "go-to" person for German genealogy articles and lectures. He is currently writing a new guide on researching the genealogy of German-speaking peoples. He also has expertise in the genealogy of the people of his native Pennsylvania, newspapers, and land records.
"From the Penns to the Present," a series of custom-made products tracing properties from William Penn to the present-day owners.
Read "Roots & Branches," the only syndicated weekly column on genealogy in Pennsylvania – featured in the Lebanon Daily News.
Search "roots branches" at LDNews to view an archive of the column.
FTU is an online education program from the publishers of Family Tree Magazine, America’s No. 1 family history magazine. For more than 10 years, they have been publishing magazines and books designed to help genealogists explore their family history.