The death of my mother, Frieda Mae Fry, reawakened the idea of bringing a Fry history and genealogy into the present twenty-first century; and I have been able to advance from where he, and to a lesser extent myself, left off 30 years ago.

I have acquired more family histories, maps and plats; organized photos and documents; and even found the historic Fry farm, purchased by John Fry sometime between 1816 and 1826, in Suffield Township, Portage County, Ohio (The farmhouse still survives, although it has suffered somewhat from the ravages time).

Fry Farm in Suffield Township, Portage County, Ohio

In this, I have been greatly aided by a resource unavailable to my father: the Internet. It has led me to distant family members; to the work of other genealogists in the United and Germany; and to historic books not easily available in an earlier time.