While I have always enjoyed wandering through old cemeteries, it wasn't until my daughter wanted to join the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) - thanks to the Gilmore Girls - that I started seriously researching my genealogy. As a 9th generation descendant of Philip Bossard, one of the first European settlers in northeast Pennsylvania, I have found that my roots go back to the earliest Dutch and German settlers in the New World colonies of New Amsterdam (New York), New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.

While I have always enjoyed wandering through old cemeteries, it wasn't until my daughter wanted to join the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) - thanks to the Gilmore Girls - that I started seriously researching my genealogy. As a 9th generation descendant of Philip Bossard, one of the first European settlers in northeast Pennsylvania, I have found that my roots go back to the earliest Dutch and German settlers in the New World colonies of New Amsterdam (New York), New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.