We are grateful for the following items given to the Seibert Library during the past months:

Countdown to the Millenium, 1999 newspaper series from Lancaster Sunday News and Harrisburg Patriot-News from an anonymous donor.

Descendants of Ulrich Schenk, compiled and donated by Judy and James Shank, 2005

We Had Everything but Money, a humorous account of the Depression years, published by Country Books. A gift of Harvey Eshelman.

The Frankhouser Family, a 1384 page family history with index, compiled and presented by Dale Frankhouser of Lititz.

The Hans Herr Family, a genealogical record beginning 1639, the 31st edition, published by the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society and presented by James and Judy Shank.

Album of Elizabethtown Area High School sports, clippings from the Chronicle, 1965 through 1771, from an anonymous donor.

Chronicle publications, Focus on Elizabethtown and Elizabethtown Businesses 1997, and Lancaster County Observes Pennsylvania’s Tercentenary, 1979, gifts of Lillian Campbell.

Descendants of Abraham and Lindaretta Hawthorne, 2001, compiled and donated by Dr. Robert A. Hess of our library staff.

Framed poster of Elizabethtown’s murals, from the Doug Pfautz family.

Captive’s Mansion, a history of the Slaymaker family and their showplace homestead since the 1700’s, written by Samuel R. Slaymaker II, 1973, and donated by Pauline Bodman.

The Auxer family history, compiled and donated by Linda Stienstra, our library volunteer from Lititz.

Early school textbooks, 1880 World Geography by Monteith and McNalley, and an A.S. Barnes 1875 geography, both school books of Ellen R. Heisey (mother of Salome Heisey Engle) by an anonymous donor.

Photos by Bishop (very long and narrow): Elizabethtown High School 1928, and Elizabethtown College, 1924 and 1929, from the Elwood Boyer family.

Minutes of the Greiner (Kreiner, Kriner) family reunions, 1929 to 1961, copied and compiled as a supplement to the 2001 Greiner Family History which was compiled and donated by Robert C. Greiner

The Seibert Library appreciates all of these donations which add to the vast amount of local history which can be easily accessed for research of many types. We especially urge donations of family histories which frequently are of great benefit to others with the same family roots.