Acknowledgements

I want to acknowledge and thank the following people who have helped me, either personally or through the results of their research:

• Charles Seeber, a third cousin once removed, who assembled an impressive collection of Seeber material prior to his death in 2015. We didn't meet until after we both retired, but we become friends and collaborators. Among other contributions, he organized a memorable reunion of the Seeber family in 2000 and wrote a book focusing on descendants of Henry Seeber (1841-1845), which can be found in the Montgomery County Archives in Fonda.

• Marcia Alary, another cousin, who did extensive research on Seeber descendants and developed a wonderful website at Geocities, which unfortunately has been taken down (some portions of her site can be recovered using Google searches). She currently has a heritage site at Myheritage.com that contains much of the information formerly on her website.

• Edward Seeber, a professor of French at Indiana University in the mid-1900s, who compiled typewritten notes and family group sheets of Seeber descendants that are still useful today. A box containing his notes, family group sheets, photographs, original documents and keepsakes has been donated to the Montgomery County Archives in Fonda.

• Margaret Bohart, whose conjectures about unresolved issues have stimulated the thinking of later Seeber researchers. Some of her research notes are online; her research material is also at the Montgomery County Archives in Fonda.

• Frederick Phillips, who wrote a series of articles about the Seeber family that appeared in the St. Johnsbury (NY) Enterprise and News in the early 1930s. His articles were thought-provoking and helpful in identifying issues requiring further research.

• Ken Johnson, author of The Bloodied Mohawk: The American Revolution in the Words of Fort Plank's Defenders and Other Mohawk Valley Partisans. His website is a font of information about Fort Plank, Fort Plain, Sand Hill, and early Mohawk Valley families. He also gave Charles Seeber and me a guided tour of the Sand Hill Cemetery, which we would never have found on our own.

• Henry Z ("Hank") Jones, Jr., whose books on the Palatines and other immigrants have become standard reference works. He serves as an inspiration to everyone who is looking for the European roots of Mohawk Valley families.

• My wife, Carmen (de Chateauvieux) Bush, who since our marriage has been my partner in genealogy as well as life. She's a superb sounding board, proofreader, research associate, and critic, and asks no payment except that I return the favor with the research she does on her families.