Mark Miner, a lifelong resident of southwest Pennsylvania, has built a remarkable family history collection since he began the project back in 2000. A newspaper article commemorating his website's 25^th anniversary summarizes the effort:

“The site traces the descendants of Miner’s fifth great-grandparents, Jacob Minerd Sr. and Maria Nein, who moved to Fayette County in 1791. The couple had 12 children, who married into other Pennsylvania German families; at least 87 grandchildren; 469 great-grandchildren; and countless other descendants. Miner’s website documents the lives of more than 1,000 of them.”

Read about his impressive accomplishment here.

Take time to check out minerd.com. Way more than names and dates on a family tree! You may discover you’re connected to the extended Miner/Minerd family. Lots of Irish and Scots-Irish emigrants among the biographies in the database.