Thank you for visiting our family history website and blog.

Our website was inspired by the curiosity of Tom Bodenschatz (1945 – 2012) of Summerhill, Pennsylvania, and is dedicated to all who work to preserve and share family stories.

If you have a Bodenschatz in your family tree, are connected* to someone who does, or share community ties with a Bodenschatz family anywhere in the world, you are invited to register for the private section of our website.

* whether by birth, marriage, adoption, friendship, etc.

[Above: 1910 painted postcard looking from “downtown” toward “uptown” Summerhill Borough in Cambria County, Pennsylvania]