Only weeks before we ended up in Pennsylvania we discovered that we we heading back to our roots. The Sipherd's (Seifert's), or rather Adam Seifert came to the colonies from Germany back in 1749. He married Maria Schwartzwalelder and they settled in Dover township, York County, PA.This is the house that their son Johann Michael Seifert built in 1798. We also after a bit of searching and some help were able to find Adam's grave site. How amazing it was to find all this!
As for the Hess family, Rob's mom's family, just this week we were able to find a ton of information on them in Lancaster, PA. His great-great-great...... grandpa Hans Hess and great-great-great....... grandma Magdalena came over from Switzerland in 1717. We spent hours in the Lancaster Historical Society Library and were amazed to find that distant cousin's of his had already done so much work. Even down to creating a Hess Family self guided tour of family sites. So while we don't have any pictures yet there will be plenty to come. We still have a lot of research on both sides to do but we have a fair start.
Oh and it is interesting to know that both families settled within 45 minutes of where we live now, and just across the river a ways from each other. And NO we are not distant cousins, at least we are pretty sure.
