For this section, I must acknowledge the significant depth of information that I found through Ancestry.com and its external links. In the Generation Numbering this study begins later than the others. I have begun these families at {4} to align them with my other genealogies.

Of course, I personally knew my grandfather "Grandad" and my Grandmother. They were both lovely, quiet people who traveled little, didn't drink and were content just sitting on their front porch in little Oxford PA in the early evenings and speaking to neighbors as they strolled by. And, they had their habits: Grandad never had the daily newspaper delivered; he preferred to walk a quarter-mile to the downtown newsstand and often stop at the firehouse on the way back for a game of pinochle with his buddies. And, although the technology had improved, Grandmother still used the old hand-run wringer on her turn-of-the-twentieth-century washing machine. Grandad warned me not to try genealogy on his ancestors; "you won't find anything but horse thieves and vaudeville acts!" Well, I am defying him now and I've yet to find any horse thieves (at least ones who were caught). He once said that his mother Lizzie Foy was related to Eddie Foy and the Seven Little Foys, though I now know that wasn't possible since Eddie Foy was a name dreamt up by Edwin Fitzgerald for his vaudeville career when Lizzie was 15 years old!