Through much of my research on our Blunk family line and viewing how other settlers have come to the United States, these are my conclusions:
I have noticed that each Blunk, Blunck, Van Blunk had arrived here from England or Ireland. Before taking a ship from England or Ireland they arrived there from either Germany, Denmark, Sweden, or Switzerland. With this knowlege, believe that William (Wilhelm) Blunk and his brothers did the same.
It is my opinion that Wilhelm "William" and his brothers (Hans "John" & Josef "Joseph") went to Ireland from Germany so they could come to America to make a new life. There he met Rachel and they married. Before raising their way to America, Rachel gave birth to three Children in Ireland (William, Hannah & Andrew). Their ship arrived from Ireland to New York City in America during the early 1760s. They settled in Washington, Allegheny Co., PA. Several years later many of their adult children went forward to Kentucky and Indiana. Later some explored, moving to new territory further west and south.
Biography & Family Genealogy Tree
Work in progress. You can get a glimpse of the book for a limited time before it is published in hardcover (Online version is not updated. It is only a sample of what the finale version may look like).
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This is an insert of the upcoming book, soon to be available in hardcopy this Spring (2007). This 1st Edition will include photos made available to me and other researcher's stories of those directly related to them. If you would like your family line to be included in this collectors edition, please submit your family tree & photos to Dottie.
"Pearls of Yesteryear Revisited" includes Descendents on the following family lines, some beginning as early as the 1500's to present times. These are earliest 1st generations found in my direct family tree lines.
Some of these names and their descendants below may not be displayed in the online version,
but will be available in the hardcopy book. The book will be made available soon. It will include brief bios, photos, resources, etc.
