Welcome to Bob Greiner’s Genealogy Home Page

I have been researching my wife’s and my family lines for more than twenty years. I published two books in the 1990s on my wife's families. Those books are about the Hardenstine and Woodside families. In 2009 I updated the Hardenstine book. It is available as The Hartenstein / Hardenstine Family on this web site and in hard copy.

In 2001 I published a book on the history of the Greiner family of Lancaster County, PA. It is entitled Ancestors and Descendants of David Franklin Greiner of Mount Joy Township, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. This link includes the genealogy sections of the book.

In 2005 I published Records of the Lutheran Church, Herschberg, Germany, 1755 – 1839. Herschberg is the ancestral village of the Hardenstine family. Subsequent research has shown that many other Herschberg families emigrated in the 1830s through New York City.

Reichensachsen Families – Böttner, Klebe, Külmar, Krug, Pfeil, Roth

These families emigrated between 1847 and 1849 from the state of Hessen, Germany. I published a book on these families in 2008 entitled The John Bitner Family of Snyder County, Pennsylvania. This book in now available here on this web site.

Herschberg Immigrants

Around 1831 a group of families from the southern part of the German state of Rheinland-Pfalz (Rhineland Palatinate) immigrated to the United States through the port of New York City. While some of the immigrants remained in the city for several years, a large group migrated to Stark County, Ohio. Several families eventually settled in Monroe County, Pennsylvania, as well as other locations in the country.

Daniel Kreider Family

My great-grandparents, Daniel Kreider and Barbara Risser, migrated from Lebanon County, Pennsylvania to Callaway County, Missouri and then to Towner County, North Dakota. In July 1893 they and four of their children were brutally murdered in their farmhouse outside Cando, ND. This page documents their life and aftermath of the tragedy.

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