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Henry Linkous (Linckost) was a native of Weissenborn-L̈uderode, Germany. He came to America in 1776 as a German soldier and had settled in Montgomery County, Virginia by 1787. He married Elizabeth Shiflet and later died in 1822. Descendants lived in Virginia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Indiana, Ohio, and elsewhere.
This ten-year supplement lists 10,000 titles acquired by the Library of Congress since 1976--this extraordinary number reflecting the phenomenal growth of interest in genealogy since the publication of Roots. An index of secondary names contains about 8,500 entries, and a geographical index lists family locations when mentioned.
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Johannes Philip Preisch (1718-1802) and his brother-in-law, Johan Philip Harless (1716-1772), with their wives and families, immigrated in 1738 from Germany to Philadelphia. Johannes Philip anglicized his name to John Philip Price, and settled in Montgomery County, Pennsyl- vania; his brother in law first lived in Augusta County, Virginia, moving later to Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Descendants and relatives lived in Pennsylvania, Virginia, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Texas, Arizona, California and elsewhere. Includes ancestors in Germany to about 1644.