The focus of this research is on the Families of CROWE, HUMBERTSON, LAYMAN and WINEBRENNER, who settled in Western Maryland in the late Eighteenth Century, their ancestors and descendants.   A few of their collateral lines are: Arnold, Blocher, Buchholtz, Durst, Fazenbaker, Garlitz, Goodrich, Humbertson, Koelker, McCormick, McKenzie, Muir, Pengelly, Rowe, Symons/Simon, Twigg, Walkinshaw, Warnick, Wilt and Wright. Other Pioneer Families of Allegany and Garrett Counties, Maryland, will find their way here as well.   Many of the descendants of these families migrated into Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Virginia.   If you are connected to any of these early families of Western Maryland, please join us in our efforts.  We may be able to help each other in our genealogical research.   When we started this site it was with the hope that others would find a tidbit here and there to help break down their own BRICK WALL, and perhaps have a morsel or two to share with others.   Please feel free to submit any little thing you may have, whether it's pictures, a date of birth/death/marriage, burial location, an obituary, Military Record or whatever that pertains to: CROWE, HUMBERTSON, LAYMAN or WINEBRENNER and  their related Ancestors or Descendants.   Happy Hunting! Carol and Genie   Check out our Sister ~ site at MSN.com   LAYMAN AND CROWE OF ALLEGANY CO. MD.    Genealogy.Com 14 Day Free Trial Membership  Try it today!   LEGACY FAMILY TREE 6.0 GENEALOGY PROGRAM BY FAR THE BEST AND EASIEST TO USE PROGRAM FOR BEGINNERS AND ADVANCED USERS. Please visit our sponsor Legacy 6.0 is a full-featured professional genealogy program that helps you track, organize, print, and share your family history. Includes source documentation, dozens of beautiful reports, expert merging capabilities, To Do list, pictures, videos, Web page creation, spell checking, Internet searching, relationship calculation, name tag printing and more. The program imports and exports standard GEDCOM files as well as directly reads PAF files.

OUR MISSION To What End ? Anyone researching "orphan" members of the Crowe, Humbertson, Layman and Winebrenner Families of Western Maryland is invited to join us in our sleuthing. Our concentration is on those not-very-well-documented family members. These are "our orphans", because we need to find their parents and connect them to the rest of the families.  Please be aware, that some of the information we gather, is undocumented and not proven. Thus any undocumented data presented here (and elsewhere), should ONLY be used as leads, not actual fact. Where documentation is available, we will provide it or its source. You should always verify any information you find, before accepting it. There is some data that has been 'generally accepted' as being fact. Quite often this information is based solely on assumption. We will include what has been accepted, along with any notes regarding the questionable data, and let you be the judge. Whatever documentation we find to substantiate or disprove that information will be added, to aid you in your research.   In climbing through family trees, we have come across many inconsistencies in the "generally accepted" family lines which we would like to resolve. We don't want to accept assumptions such as: "John Doe was the father of Jane Doe" when he was only 8 yrs. old at the time of her birth.  And how can a death be accepted as "Oct. 15,1850", when the wife is already found to be a widow in the census taken in June of 1850. So join us in our pursuit of these pioneer families of Allegany and Garrett Counties (Maryland) and we'll help each other in giving them their rightful place in their family histories.