In 1753, Jacob Sammet brought his family to Philadelphia from Germany aboard the HMS Beaula. In 1970, my grandfather, Chester Alba Summitt, died and I ended up with a family Bible. That Bible had been owned by my Great-Great-Grandmother Betty S. Butler Summit. That Bible began my life-long interest in my family history. Between 1995 and 2005, my wife and I published The Summitt Family Quarterly, available for download here. We hosted a site for the Quarterly for about the same period of time. The link shows the Quarterly site from 2001. Since Jacob, the last name has been written with both one t and two ts. Almost every person with this last name that I have ever met I have been able to connect back to Jacob.
The line between Jacob Sammet and myself starts with
and my great-great-great-great-great-grandfather, Jacob Sammet
This site was created with the free version of GED-GEN 01.8.1 and straight HTML, CSS, and Javascript. The free version is limited to 500 families, however which is 1970 individuals. My Missouri Summitt tree on Ancestry.com has 13,207 individuals. (You will need an Ancestry account to view the tree.)
The are also essays concerning members of the family available on the Downloads page. Please enjoy.