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Cyberspace Odyssey (April 2012) - The latest updates to the Newhouse Family Webpages include: • Our family tree database keeps growing and as of April 2012 contains the names of 20,529 individuals, all connected by blood or marriage. You can see the details of various family trees that have been updated and posted in PDF format at our family web site. The latest versions of these PDF trees contain updates to Newhouse, Getchell/Gatchell, Bowker, Berry, Hatch, Dieffenbach/Defenbaugh, Patrick Reed, Alexander, Thomas, McClelland, Hess, Strack, and Rex ancestors, among others drawn from our family tree database. Some of the same reports are also posted at our Family Tree Maker site. • On March 28th, 2012, we added the transcript of the biography of another ancester Colonel Samuel S. Spangler. Sam was a very early settler of Fairfield County, Ohio, and he became deeply involved in the early affairs and politics of that area as it became established. • In March 2012, EQA Landmark Communities initiated groundbreaking work for Phase III of the Newbury Market residential development. Many single family homes in both Phase I and Phase II of the residential area are now completed and occupied. Townhouses are also nearing completion. And the basic groundwork preparation has started for the office and shopping district. Eric Newhouse is Newbury Project Manager for EQA-LC. • Ben Newhouse designed, authored and is now teaching another new online college course . The course Music Composition for Film and TV is available for college credit from the Berklee College of Music and it's taught by Ben. • On July 11, 2009, the extended family gathered in Machias and Marshfield, Maine, in memory of Sue Getchell, who passed away this past February. See video clips of her husband Walter, his brothers and others, as they sing at the family gathering, as they always have, in Sue's honor. • On May 12th, 2009, Eric Newhouse was granted full certification as a Registered Architect by the commonwealth of Pennsylvania. • At the 2009 UCEA Annual Conference during the first week of April, an online college course designed, authored and taught by Ben Newhouse was given the 2009 Meritorious Course Award for an online college course by the University Continuing Education Association (UCEA). The course Orchestration I is given for college credit by the Berklee College of Music and it's taught by Ben. Ben and Berklee have also produced a 2nd more advanced course in orchestration, Orchestration II. Both these orchestration courses are part of the required curriculum for students interested in obtaining a Master Certificate in Arranging and Orchestration through Berklee. Additionally, Ben still teaches an earlier online class he developed for the Berklee, Digital Performer, via online classes at Berkleemusic.com. • Eric Newhouse is currently the project manager for Newbury Market a mixed-use brownfield redevelopment project being developed by EQA Landmark Properties of Pittsburgh, PA. The Newbury Market project is a $240-million residential and commercial development now under construction in South Fayette Township, a suburban community just south of Pittsburgh. Ground was broken on September 10, 2008. The community will feature 200 acres of residential space and 130 acres of open space for parks, trails, and tree-lined streets. In addition, the commercial portion of Newbury Market will anchor the project. It is a 100-acre site that will include more than 900,000 square feet of retail space, restaurants, plazas, offices and a hotel. This project is expected to create more than 2,000 new jobs. • Norma Jean Newhouse is now the office coordinator for the New Cumberland, PA office of Morning Star Pregnancy Services for abortion clinic alternatives. Morning Star provides free information and services concerning pregnancies, adoption, parenting, sexually transmitted diseases and abortion procedures. Abortion alternatives encouraged. Free pregnancy testing and ultrasound services available. • Thanks to some recent DNA tests conducted by Family Tree DNA on samples provided by various living Newhouse cousins, there is now strong DNA evidence that our Newhouse ancestry is directly connected to a papermaker named Anthony Newhouse, who lived in Germantown, near Philadelphia, in the 1740s and 1750s. This Anthony Newhouse provided paper supplies for Benjamin Franklin's printing press. This same DNA evidence, along with other documented evidence, refutes the 1914 claim by John Richey Newhouse that our Newhouse ancestry goes back to the Revolutionary seaman named Anthony Newhouse, who died in service with the Virginia State Navy in 1780. Newhouse Origins in America discusses this evidence and the most likely possibilities as to who our original Newhouse immigrants might have been. • The family tree updates include genealogy stories and connections, including the Great Corwin Burglary of Salem, Massachusetts; family connections to the royal British family through the late Princess Diana, and finally absolute proof on the direct relationship between the original New England Gatchell immigrants and the Gatchell Quakers of Pennsylvania. All this and more at our Family Tree Maker site and within our PDF reports at our family web site. • The publication of more short stories written by Wynter Reed Newhouse. Three of them: It's The Bosses' Fault, A Young Man Who Survived, and lastly, Lotophagi, a story started by Wynter Newhouse in October 1932 and recently finished by Dean Newhouse in June 2006. • Publication of a short story, About Pigs, Shantyboats, and a Thick Waistline written by Wynter Reed Newhouse. • Evidence exists that our ancestor Amiziah Reed was a scout with the 7th cavalry just before "Custer's Last Stand" at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876. Also see Amiziah's genealogy. • We've just added a new photo ancestry of the Cassani Family. This page contains an album of pictures of Carmen Cassani and both her ancestors and descendants. • Check out pictures of our Strack ancestors. • Review the transcribed will of John Newhouse of 1754, as well as his estate's probate record of 1756. • Palatine ancestors among Pennsylania "invaders" in the 1720s. • The Kobel Massacre.
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