This is the story of the Fishburn side of my family. I guess for me you could say it all started when my father, John Lawson Mintier (1913-1967), ran away with my mother, Mary Eldora Fishburn (1913-2011), to West Virginia to get married back in 1935. Of course I wouldn’t  enter the scene until 1946.

Or you could say that my saga started when Robert Mintier (1750-????) married a girl named Dorcus (1732-1811) in rural Pennsylvania before the United States became the United States.

But this is about the Fishburn side of my family. So let’s start with the most well known of the Fishburn ancestors. That would be Johann Phillip Fishburn III (1722-1795).Johann Phillip Fishburn III

Notes about people and places naming conventions.

1. I use Fishburn for people who moved to or were born in the Americas. For family in Germany I use Fischborn.
2. The town of Planig, Germany is now part of Bad Kreuznach in Rheinhessen, Germany. Here is a link to its present day loction. This link will take you to a different web site.  http://www.places-in-germany.com/120536-municipality-planig-rheinhessen.html.
3. Planig should not be confused with Planegg, Germany.