Much of the memoirs from the mid-1800s to date are from an original text written by Josephine Goodman Routh and dedicated to all of her grandchildren, so that they may know something of the lives and loves of their ancestors. That text was electronically scanned and converted to computerized text by Darrel Wayne Goodman. It was edited and revised in 1994 through 1998 by Ronald Eugene Goodman. Ronald and Darrel are both sons of Josephine's elder brother Clifford Goodman, and grandsons of Roy Goodman. It now reflects new information about our family’s ancestors prior to 1800, corrections and additional information gathered from various genealogy books, US census records, correspondence with other Goodman and Blocher family researchers, and computer databases that are now becoming available. Also minor editing of the Josephine Routh text for syntax and structure.