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This book builds upon the first volume in this series, Familie Allwein – An Early History, which dealt with the Allwein family’s emigration from Germany to America and their settlement in colonial Pennsylvania. Volume II in this series covers Allwein descendants living east of the Allegheny Mountains over the 70-year period from about 1870 through 1940.  This volume is contained in two parts. Part 1 of this second volume focuses on those families that settled in southeastern Pennsylvania, particularly in Lebanon, Philadelphia and Berks Counties. Not only is the present volume an update on the families covered in volume I of Familie Allwein, it goes beyond the early land, tax and estate records, to include information from marriage and birth records, military records, census records, death records, county atlases and local histories. As in the first volume of this series, the author’s careful documentation of all sources and attention to detail make it possible to reproduce his findings and re-examine his conclusions.