All of my family have their American roots in Berks County, Pennsylvania. This fact makes my research a bit easy has I do not have travel all over the country looking for records. This blog will concentrate on my research of the Bingaman family in Berks County, Pennsylvania, specifically the descendants of Samuel Bingeman and Sarah Wentzel. Samuel and Sarah Bingeman had ten children: Charles, Daniel, Samuel, Johannes (my line), Hannah, William, Ephraim, Sarah, Mary and Katherine. Six of the ten children had descendants who are living today. For the past four years I have been trying to locate all the living descendants of Samuel and Sarah with the hope of obtaining additional information on the deceased and pictures of those who have come before. My intention is put my research findings into book form and I hope by creating this blog I will be able to contact more of my distant relatives.

The earliest Bingeman that I have located is in the 1731 baptismal records of Rev. John Casper Stoever. As you can see the Bingeman name has been in the Berks County area for many years but I feel that they have not received the recognition as being one of the early families in the area. It is my intent that this blog changes that perception and the descendants of the Bingaman family will learn what a great heritage they have.

I will be posting information and pictures from my research files from time to time and please feel free to comment about what you see at this site. Above is The Reading Nature Center. At one time this was the home of Charles and Sarah (Miller) Bingaman. Charles was the oldest child of Samuel and Sarah Bingeman.