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Our next national reunion will be held the weekend of June 22-23, 2013, on the theme of "What's Your Legacy?" See details of our 2011 reunion honoring Civil War soldiers. |
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Custom-Search Minerd.com for Your Relatives |
This award-winning site --
now in its 13th year -- has twice been named one of Family Tree Magazine's
"Top 10 Family Websites." Having drawn more than 2.3 million visitors since 2000, it captures the sweep of Americana through the eyes of one
Pennsylvania German family,
with tens of thousands of stories.
Minerd.com is a forum for sharing knowledge and promoting the national reunion of our large pioneer clan, the Minerd- Minard- Miner- Minor family, with origins in the Pittsburgh region of Pennsylvania. The site may change the way you think, learn about and understand families. While our clan is no bigger, better or more interesting than anyone else's, it is symbolic of many early families who put down roots and let time work its magic.
Instead of just tracing backward, we're also exploring forward in time to tell the saga of one clan over a span of 275 years. It starts with German-Americans Friedrich and Eva Maria (Weber) Meinert Sr., of Berks County, PA and their sons, Revolutionary War veterans Jacob Minerd Sr. and his wife Maria Nein, pioneers of Fayette/ Somerset Counties, PA, and Friedrich Meinert Jr. and his wife Catherine Nein, and thence to tens of thousands of their siblings and descendants, down to the present day. We're very interested in making contact with all descendants, everywhere, and learning how they've touched our nation. More >>>
| 19th Century Pioneer Prairie Letters Published for First Time |
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"2.2 Million
Visits, 1,400 Bios, 10,700 Images" |
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In 2012, Minerd.com reached several important landmarks -- received its 2 millionth visitor, and added its 1,400th biography and 10,000th image. The site now has 1,435 individual biographies and 10,700 rare, historic images, an encyclopedic collection of material about one pioneer family available nowhere else. More >>> |
As
a result of a gracious act of sharing by cousin Janet (Hoyt) Sperry, the
first of scores of 19th century letters written between two sisters on
the prairie of Kansas and Missouri have been published for the first
time. The letters were exchanged between Nettie (White) Bailey [left]
and Helen (White) Clark, starting in 1884 and capture their loneliness,
hardships and grief of separation. 
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Order the New Civil War Book - Well At This Time |
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Order your own copy of Well At This Time: The Civil War Diaries and Army Convalescence Saga of Ephraim Miner, authored by Minerd.com founder Mark Miner. More about the soldier, the book and how to order your copy. More >>> |
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Prayer for Our Military Cousins in Harm's Way |
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Scores of our cousins are serving in the United States Armed Forces in the war on terror in Iraq, Afghanistan and other military hot spots around the world. Please say a prayer for their safety -- click to see the names of each known one. Cousin Mary (Minerd) Speegle is interested in sending care packages to any cousins still in the military and if interested in providing a name and address, please contact her. |
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In Memory - Capt. Erick Foster - The Ultimate Sacrifice in Iraq |
 Cousin Erick M. Foster, a captain and paratrooper with the 82nd
Airborne Division, died Aug. 28, 2007 of combat injuries sustained during an
enemy attack using small arms fire in Muqdadiyah, Iraq. The great-grandson of Oakey
and Gertrude (Shroyer) Harbaugh, he was the troop commander of A Troop,
First Squad, 73rd Cavalry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team.
Tragically, Erick is now one of 27
known cousins in our family to make the ultimate sacrifice during wartime.
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We Want to Hear from You! |
 Our website and archives are continual works in progress. We regularly update
the site with
new findings, and add to the archives with news of you and your family, past and
present. (We even welcome
ultrasound photos from the womb, such as the image here of Jacob
Benjamin Miner, a 1999 addition to the family!) If you have questions or
information, spot any errors, or wish to contribute your own writings, family
knowledge or
archival materials for the benefit and understanding of all,
please contact us.
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 VisitPittsburgh.com is the promotional sponsor of Minerd.com's homepage |
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| Minerd.com has received several awards and has been licensed to display the Pittsburgh 250 and Ohio Bicentennial logos. |
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Acknowledgements
- Newly updated Who's Who 2010
booklet |
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Total
visits from May 7, 2000 to April 30, 2013: 2,317,729 |
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Mark Miner Communications, LLC is corporate sponsor of this website |
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