History of the "Good" Ancestry
Elias H. Good
1929 Aug 5
 

Contents

Cover
Sources
Title
Photo Joseph, Joel, Samuel, Molly
 5 History of the "Good" Ancestry
 7 Ancestors Jacob to Joel
 9 From Bowmansville to Waterloo
13 Joel visits Bowmansville
19 Mennonite History and "Good" Ancestry
21 Jacob Good Descendants

My notes in the margins of pages 6-7 and 20-23 show the connection to the 1989 article on the Good familes of early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania by Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis. (1) That article is well research and documented, and it relies heavily on this one for its information on Jacob Good (GC35) and his descendants. However, the Best and Howard article is generally believed to be a more accurate history of the Good family before Jacob Good (GC35) than what we have here, which relied on earlier books by E. E. Eby and T H. Harter. -- dg 2009 Mar 11

Reference

o Elias H. Good, "History of the 'Goods'" (Kitchener, Ont.: 1929 Aug 5). Also www.dgatx.com/family...ubs/1929/HGA/hs.html (2008). This history, with the alternate title "History of the 'Good' Ancestry", was written for the Good reunion at Gowanstown, Ont. It also appears in "The Good Side of My Family" by Ruth Good Baker, 1967. Both are on file at Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 2008 Jan 29.

Notes

1. Jane Evans Best and Howard C. Francis, "Six Good Families of Early Lancaster County, Pennsylvania" in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Vol. XII, No. 3 (Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1989 Jul), p11-28.