DEHARTS: NOTES AND GENEALOGY

 The best source of Dehart information is
the Dehart surname list.  They have more up to date information than
much that I have on these pages.  The Dehart surname list is extremely
active and has people researching a number of lines; two people there are
also working on Berks Co George W Dehart, several others are working on
Berks (Philadelphia and Montgomery) County Deharts.

 Go
to Dehart list web site.  Also Dehart researchers.

On the Philadelphia, Berks and Dauphin (Harrisburg area) County, PA
Deharts, Linda Demko is the best source. She has a great deal of material
on this family group.  It is she whose findings turned Montgomery's
reports on their head.   Go to Linda
Demko's Dehart web site.  Her notes are also a veritable Where's Where
of how to research Berks Co PA Dutch ancestry.


PUBLISHED SOURCES:

Montgomery, Historical and Biographical Annals of Berks 
     County (Chicago:  Beers, 1909) He has his early Berks Co Deharts all
     scrambled up. 


Klett, Joseph R. ed.  Genealogy of New Jersey Families (Genealo-
      gical Publishing Co, 1996), article on Deharts.  Reprint
      of NJGM article and update.

Family History Library, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day
      Saints, International Geneological Index and Ancestral File
      (I need to check who submitted information on descendants 
      of Jacob to Ancestral File, but I think it was a Hope 
      Foundation of Utah, which I wrote to, and never got an 
      answer from.)

I used two sources from the Mormon Library:

   De Hart and allied families (Microreproduction of original 
       records at the Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania),
       published in Salt Lake City: Filmed by the Genealogical
       Society of Utah, 1966.  It contained misc genealogical
       information on New York and New Jersey Deharts.  There
       was no apparent connection to any Pennsylvania Deharts,
       but the material could ultimately be useful.

   Lane, Annabel Wishart.  The history of the De Hart, Mersereau,
       Meek, and allied families:  Warrensburg, Missouri, 1954.
       (Washington, D.C.:  Filmed by the Reproduction Systems, 
       1971).

One of these sources referred to more;

   Documentary History of New York, vol 3

   Colonial History of New York, vol 2.  

   History of Morris County, NJ

Two more sources available from the Mormons that look like they
could possibly be helpful are;

    Dehart, Dora Farler.  A history of Jacob and Mary Dehart 
       (Middleton, Ohio:  D.F.DeHart, 1985)
       ("Jacob DeHart (b1811) emigrated about 1829 from France to
        Baltimore, Md")

    Buchanan, Mrs. J.H.  Four Generations of Boone genealogy.  
        (Seattle, WA Boone Family Association for Washington, 1955)
        The Deharts associated with Boones were Brooklyn Deharts,
        and atleast some were in Berks Co and travelled with Boones 
        from there.  The Boones also migrated from Berks Co. Daniel
        Boone was born there.

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