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Anyone,

I have been passed the baton for collecting family information. My great (x6) grandfather was Peter Orwig. I was wondering if there happens to be anyone, or any place that would have any patch's from Orwigsburg (Fire Dept., Police, Schools, etc,...) that I could put with the family collection I already have?

Please & Thank you,

John C Strawhacker, Jr

803 N 5th Street
Bellevue, NE  68005

On Behalf of the Orwigsburg Fire Department, I would like to thank everyone who contributed and/or joined us the day of, to make this year’s Car Show a success. 
Cordially, Tom Bonner
                President
                Orwigsburg Fire Department

Thanks for stopping by the Orwigsburg Online site.  Thanks for the feedback and glad you like the site.  I just work on the site in my spare time (which I don't have a lot of lately) but I'm hoping people find it useful.

I haven't worked with Joomla but I'll check into it.  The original forum was based in phpBB but there were some major security issues a few years ago with phpBB and my hosting provider will no longer allow it to be installed on their servers.  I tried the SMF system and it seems to work fairly well for the amount of use the Message Board gets.

Mike Gifford
Orwigsburg Online Webmaster

I am just seeing if anyone ever checks this place out.  I was quite surprised with the forum and website.  Whoever spearheaded this did an excellent job.  I would have went with Joomla and phpBB, though.

Just stopping by to say hi and I'm looking forward to the car show again this year.   

Hi!

I used to write with Mr. Keith Ernst from Orwigsburg PA in 1998. He used to own a antique truck of Bethlehem make. Now I am visiting my friend in York Spring PA and I wonder if Mr. Ernst is still round and I could meet him and see his rare truck in life.


Best wishes


Juha Kaitanen
Turku, Finland

hi earnie,

You may want to look up Jim Orwig or Phil Orwig in orwigsburg.  Give them a phone call.  They have lived there all their lives and are ancestors to the founder.

Good Luck, it's a fine small town. I now live in Atlanta Georgia but was born there and graduated from High School there in 1953

Regards,

Dick

Hi Ernie.  You might want to try the Orwigsburg Historical Society (their is a link to contact information under the Community pages) or the Schuylkill County GenWeb pages at http://www.rootsweb.com/~paschuyl/schuylki.htm

Hope this helps.

Mike Gifford