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My GETZ(GÖTZ) line begins in the small village of Engstlatt, Germany in the late 1480s and arrives in the U.S. in 1751 via Philadelphia. After a few years in Pennsylvania, the first American-born son of the immigrant moves to Shenandoah County, Virginia where descendants still live today. In doing the Getz research, I've also captured the genealogies of many associated lines of southern Shenandoah County as well, with names like Funkhouser, Tisinger, Zirkle, Kerlin, Estep, Pence, Harpine and others.
The CANNAN line has been the most difficult to research because of the current political climate in the Middle East. My branch arrived in Aroostook County, Maine in the early 1900s via Syria and Lebanon along with a few other Middle Eastern families who were leaving the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire and looking for better opportunities in America.
My ORCUTT branch is by far the biggest project I've undertaken. Rather than taking the line backwards (where there tends to be significant debate about some relationship to a Scottish clan called Urquhart), I'm capturing all of the descendants of William Orcutt who arrived in Hingham, Massachusetts in 1664. Every Orcutt in America today is a descendant of William.
The DUFOUR line has its origins in the Lisieux, Normandy area of France. The immigrant, Gabriel-Robert Dufour arrives in North America via Nova Scotia, and settles along the St. Lawrence River (Quebec and Aroostook County, Maine) where he worked as a marshall.
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