Family history and genealogical information about the descendants of Jacob Repass (or Rippas) who was born ca. 1737 in Ziefen, Switzerland. He was a descendant of Daniel Repass (born ca. 1613 in Switzerland) and Anna Tanner. Jacob married Anna Gerber ca. 1759. They immigrated to America and landed in Philadelphia 10 October 1768. Jacob and Anna lived in Virginia and were the parents of eight children. Descendants lived in Virginia, Illinois, Indiana, Texas, California and elsewhere.

I began to write poetry and short stories to express the unspeakable pain of losing a child when my son, a multi-talented dynamic young man, had endured several cruel twists of fate which forced him to return home to live with me. These were to be the final five years of his life, which ended one month after his diagnosis of leukemia. There was a certain release in my struggle to find the best words to put down. Some people have told me that my writings have helped them deal with the hurts in their life, and to sympathize with mine. I am humble and complimented to hear this.

"To the Latest Posterity is filled with examples of family registers from museum and private collections, many of them never before published, including early handmade work as well as printed registers that were filled in by hand in the nineteenth century. Bringing the art into the twentieth century and beyond, the Earnests discuss the adoption of the art by the Amish, who continue the practice of illuminated family record keeping today."--Jacket.