Hello and Greetings,

I am a retired Materials & Equipment Supply Coordinator and Inventory Control Records Manager, who worked for a variety of manufacturing, distribution and industrial-services companies in the Metro N.Y.C. area. During that period (1980's-2010's), I was also frequently responsible for conducting Incoming Inspection and Quality Assurance Audits. - My educational background and earlier career experiences were in History, Anthropology and Archaeology. I now currently reside in Ocean County, NJ.

On the subject of my own genealogy, I am a descendant of the Santopietro and Pierantozzi Families, who immigrated from the Campania and Marche Regions of Italy to northern New Jersey in the first decade of the 1900's, on my father's side of the family. - My mother's ancestors are the Hauser(paternal) and Roth(maternal) family pioneers and colonists from Germany, France and Austria (with some earlier roots in Prussia/Poland and Switzerland) who arrived in western Maryland, western Pennsylvania and northwest Virginia (now West Virginia) from the early-1700's to early-1800's.

Through additional marriages in the Hauser and Roth families during the past 200 years, I am also distantly related to the: Waltz, Yantz/Jantz, Ridenour/Reitenauer, Rinehart/Rheinhardt, Winters, Wolfe/Wolf, Bucklew, Wotring/Watring, Wilt, Carrico, Wiles/Weills, Dumire/Domire, Snyder/Schneider, Liller, Gauer/Gower, Henline/Hanline, Ball, Hebb, Rembold, Teets, Stemple, Shaffer, Mosser, Sell, Whitehair/Weisshaar, Porter, Soelter/Selders, Slaubaugh/Schlabach, Heckert, Arnold, Martin, Evans, Fike, Harsh, Best, Blamble, Knotts, Beckman, Rolf, Kight, Knepp, Lipscomb, Lantz, Miller, Ridder, Stahl, Gnegy and Bachtel family descendants; in addition to those from many other old family names, still living in the Central Alleghany Mountains Region. The spelling on most of these original German family names have been drastically "Anglicized" since the early 1800's.

My deceased mother, Colene (Hauser) Santopietro, was born on a mountaintop farm above Gnegy Church and Silver Lake, at the southern tip of Garrett County, MD in 1933. She compiled a genealogical book: "The History of the Hauser Family of Garrett County, MD and Preston County, WV" - which was printed in February of 1998. By using this book and reviewing the existing information on FaG Memorials, along with applying some basic graveyard logic, plus further internet research on the Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org websites; I have been able to provide additional family links and missing information to many FaG Memorials. I have also created many new memorials to serve as helpful missing links between family generations.

To assist in these efforts, I also initially relied on two other genealogy books: "A Genealogy of The Roth Family of Garrett Co., MD and Preston Co., WV -1988" by (now deceased) Josephine (Evans) Roth (along with her children Harold Roth & Nancy Roth-Blamble) and "The History of the Bachtel Family of Preston Co. and Garrett Co.-1986" by Mary Grace Bachtel-DePollo (deceased). In addition, I have searched the internet for any available obituaries and U.S. Census Reports, to further clarify a person's family connection, when possible. My final efforts were in performing walking surveys through the old cemeteries of Redhouse and Gnegy Church in Garrett County, MD, plus those of Eglon and Horse Shoe Run in Preston County, WV, in order to photograph and take notes from the tombstones not yet added to FaG Memorials.

Along with the activities mentioned above, I have also reported numerous duplicate memorials and cemeteries to the FaG Staff for their review and an eventual merger process. - Going forward, I will continue to review selected "old" family names in the cemeteries of southern Garrett and Preston Counties and the adjacent areas. I will also pass on edit suggestions to memorial managers for additional reliable and consistent information currently found on genealogical websites, as well as family links. Your assistance in reviewing and processing these updates will be greatly appreciated.

My interest in these ancestors/descendants and their history is ongoing. I look forward to receiving your feedback to my edit suggestions. Also very welcome, are any additional information suggestions, data corrections and biography notes for the memorials I created, plus those which were transferred to me. Correct burial locations/details for my managed memorials that are either a "burial unknown status" or a "non-tombstone" unverified gravesite, are especially desired. - Thank-you very much for your time, consideration and help on this project.

Best Wishes to All,
Raymond A. Santopietro (Ray Sant.)

P.S. - During Sept. and Oct. of 2023, I read and studied all of the information and photos in the "Oakland Centennial History Book, 1849-1949" by Thekla Fundenberg Weeks, and the "Garrett County 125th Anniversary Photo Album, 1872-1997" compiled by The Garrett County Historical Society. While doing this, I was also able to supply additional biographical data and family links to many existing FaG Memorials for people who were historically connected to Garrett County, MD. - Ray Sant.

Hello and Greetings,

I am a retired Materials & Equipment Supply Coordinator and Inventory Control Records Manager, who worked for a variety of manufacturing, distribution and industrial-services companies in the Metro N.Y.C. area. During that period (1980's-2010's), I was also frequently responsible for conducting Incoming Inspection and Quality Assurance Audits. - My educational background and earlier career experiences were in History, Anthropology and Archaeology. I now currently reside in Ocean County, NJ.

On the subject of my own genealogy, I am a descendant of the Santopietro and Pierantozzi Families, who immigrated from the Campania and Marche Regions of Italy to northern New Jersey in the first decade of the 1900's, on my father's side of the family. - My mother's ancestors are the Hauser(paternal) and Roth(maternal) family pioneers and colonists from Germany, France and Austria (with some earlier roots in Prussia/Poland and Switzerland) who arrived in western Maryland, western Pennsylvania and northwest Virginia (now West Virginia) from the early-1700's to early-1800's.

Through additional marriages in the Hauser and Roth families during the past 200 years, I am also distantly related to the: Waltz, Yantz/Jantz, Ridenour/Reitenauer, Rinehart/Rheinhardt, Winters, Wolfe/Wolf, Bucklew, Wotring/Watring, Wilt, Carrico, Wiles/Weills, Dumire/Domire, Snyder/Schneider, Liller, Gauer/Gower, Henline/Hanline, Ball, Hebb, Rembold, Teets, Stemple, Shaffer, Mosser, Sell, Whitehair/Weisshaar, Porter, Soelter/Selders, Slaubaugh/Schlabach, Heckert, Arnold, Martin, Evans, Fike, Harsh, Best, Blamble, Knotts, Beckman, Rolf, Kight, Knepp, Lipscomb, Lantz, Miller, Ridder, Stahl, Gnegy and Bachtel family descendants; in addition to those from many other old family names, still living in the Central Alleghany Mountains Region. The spelling on most of these original German family names have been drastically "Anglicized" since the early 1800's.

My deceased mother, Colene (Hauser) Santopietro, was born on a mountaintop farm above Gnegy Church and Silver Lake, at the southern tip of Garrett County, MD in 1933. She compiled a genealogical book: "The History of the Hauser Family of Garrett County, MD and Preston County, WV" - which was printed in February of 1998. By using this book and reviewing the existing information on FaG Memorials, along with applying some basic graveyard logic, plus further internet research on the Ancestry.com and FamilySearch.org websites; I have been able to provide additional family links and missing information to many FaG Memorials. I have also created many new memorials to serve as helpful missing links between family generations.

To assist in these efforts, I also initially relied on two other genealogy books: "A Genealogy of The Roth Family of Garrett Co., MD and Preston Co., WV -1988" by (now deceased) Josephine (Evans) Roth (along with her children Harold Roth & Nancy Roth-Blamble) and "The History of the Bachtel Family of Preston Co. and Garrett Co.-1986" by Mary Grace Bachtel-DePollo (deceased). In addition, I have searched the internet for any available obituaries and U.S. Census Reports, to further clarify a person's family connection, when possible. My final efforts were in performing walking surveys through the old cemeteries of Redhouse and Gnegy Church in Garrett County, MD, plus those of Eglon and Horse Shoe Run in Preston County, WV, in order to photograph and take notes from the tombstones not yet added to FaG Memorials.

Along with the activities mentioned above, I have also reported numerous duplicate memorials and cemeteries to the FaG Staff for their review and an eventual merger process. - Going forward, I will continue to review selected "old" family names in the cemeteries of southern Garrett and Preston Counties and the adjacent areas. I will also pass on edit suggestions to memorial managers for additional reliable and consistent information currently found on genealogical websites, as well as family links. Your assistance in reviewing and processing these updates will be greatly appreciated.

My interest in these ancestors/descendants and their history is ongoing. I look forward to receiving your feedback to my edit suggestions. Also very welcome, are any additional information suggestions, data corrections and biography notes for the memorials I created, plus those which were transferred to me. Correct burial locations/details for my managed memorials that are either a "burial unknown status" or a "non-tombstone" unverified gravesite, are especially desired. - Thank-you very much for your time, consideration and help on this project.

Best Wishes to All,
Raymond A. Santopietro (Ray Sant.)

P.S. - During Sept. and Oct. of 2023, I read and studied all of the information and photos in the "Oakland Centennial History Book, 1849-1949" by Thekla Fundenberg Weeks, and the "Garrett County 125th Anniversary Photo Album, 1872-1997" compiled by The Garrett County Historical Society. While doing this, I was also able to supply additional biographical data and family links to many existing FaG Memorials for people who were historically connected to Garrett County, MD. - Ray Sant.