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Send orders to: Florence Harris Abel, 120 Hedgewood Drive, Greenbelt, MD 20770; E-mail: Abel@us.net. The price of the book includes postage and handling.

This book describes how a certain branch of the Beitzel Family came to America from Birkelbach, Germany around 1850. Their descendants and related families settled in the Casselman Valley of Western Maryland and Southwestern Pennsylvania. Allied families include Beachy, Brenneman, Klotz, Maust, Opel, Orendorf, Resh, Shoemaker, Snyder. Information is also included in this book about the establishment of several churches in the area, including Lutheran, Brethren, Mennonite. Many photographs of people and places are also included. Well footnoted and well indexed.