About the Tree

I have a passion for history and family. Thus genealogy is personal to me. In the past, I have built family books through Snapfish and printed them for interested family members. I hope this website will enhance those books and possibly create a more printable and shareable project.

Family research is never really complete. I am starting with my parents and my husband's parents as the foundation of our tree. More family pages will be added as I better organize my system.

Please email me if you have questions or submit your files through this website.

— Margaret O'Brien

This family tree was compiled using records gathered from Ancestry.com, FamilySearch, census records, vital records, obituaries, and family documents. The tree data is exported in GEDCOM format (the standard for genealogical data exchange) and is displayed directly on this website.

The four primary family lines — Wilson, Crawford, Balon, and O'Brien — each have their own page where you can browse members and view submitted photographs.

Privacy notice: Out of respect for living relatives, no living individuals are listed anywhere on this website. Only deceased ancestors appear in the tree and on family pages.

The following family books are available to download and view.

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  2020 — Janice Balon Ancestors, Balon Family Tree
  Editor: Margaret O'Brien
  ⬇ Download PDF

The following books have been helpful resources in this research.

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  A Genealogical History of the Hunsicker Family
  Henry A. Hunsicker & H M Hunsicker — 1911 (Scholar Select reprint)
  Traces the Hunsicker family from Dutch immigrant Valentine Hunsicker (1700–1771) through generations in Pennsylvania.
  Buy on Amazon  ·  Free on Internet Archive
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  William Penn And The Dutch Quaker Migration To Pennsylvania
  William I. Hull — Swarthmore College, 1935 (Kessinger's Legacy Reprints)
  Documents Dutch and German Quaker emigration to Pennsylvania beginning in 1683, with appendices listing Germantown settler names and genealogical notices.
  Buy on Amazon  ·  Free on Internet Archive
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  The Strassburger Family and Allied Families of Pennsylvania
  Ralph Beaver Strassburger — Privately printed, 1922 (Classic Reprint)
  A 520-page genealogy of the Strassburger family and allied Pennsylvania German lines including Kolb, Hartzell, Landis, Markley, and others.
  Buy on Amazon  ·  Free on Internet Archive
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  Overmyer History and Genealogy, From 1680 to 1905
  Barnhart B. Overmyer — 1905 (Scholar Select reprint)
  Traces the Overmyer family from German immigrant Johann Georg Obermayer (1751) through generations in Ohio, with birth, marriage, and death records.
  Buy on Amazon  ·  Free on Internet Archive
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  Captain John George Overmire: His Ongoing Legacy, 1590–2024
  Laurence Overmire — Indelible Mark Publishing, 2024
  Over 1,800 biographies spanning the Overmire/Overmyer family tree from Upper Austria to America, including new revelations about the family's origins and a special section honoring 122 descendants who served in the military.
  Publisher's page

These websites are valuable resources for genealogical research.

• Ancestry.com — Census records, vital records, family trees
• FamilySearch.org — Free genealogical records from the LDS Church
• FindAGrave.com — Cemetery records and memorial photos
• Newspapers.com — Historical newspaper archives including obituaries
• Michigan Genealogical Council — Michigan-specific genealogy resources

Do you have photographs, documents, or stories to share? Visit any of the individual family pages to submit photos and captions for review. All submissions are reviewed before they appear on the site.

If you have corrections to the tree data or additional information about an ancestor, please use the photo submission form on the appropriate family page and describe the correction in the caption field.