Peggy; My apologies for getting of the subject of Hessian Soldiers but my late mother lived down the street from a Peggy Tyrell in El Segundo, California. Any Relation? -----Original Message----- From: peggyt <peggyt@early.com> Sent: Nov 11, 2004 8:02 PM To: AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [HESSIAN] After-Election report - yeah! > > It adds up to 342 subscribers, or >340 besides me, because I get both the -L and the -D versions. > >These are the numbers of postings, and this is what really >disturbs me: > >June 2004 - 231 postings >July 2004 - 90 postings >Aug. 2004 - 83 postings >Sep. 2004 - 59 postings >Oct. 2004 - 36 postings >Nov. so far - 16 postings. > >This makes me wonder if you all have solved your riddles, >found your roots, have no more questions to ask, are just >happy the way things are, there is nothing new you have >found recently, no reunions, no travel reports, no new >discoveries, and if this is the case, "My reply : John, I think this happened before with activity slowing down in the fall and early winter. It has nothing to do with the election, in my opinion. Most likely it is what is going on at the time in people's lives. I have done virtually no genealogy in the past few months. I was away for 5 long weekends in Sept. and Oct....much needed vacation and nothing to do about genealogy. Now I am putting my garden into shape for winter, raking leaves, etc. The holidays are approaching with social activities and that annual Christmas shopping. I do read all the posts. We have uncovered nothing new about Gottlieb Westfall/Westphall. His brother Heinrich/Henry is being extremely elusive. I am kind of stuck as to just where to look. And no one seems to have contacted the list about him. My cousin and I have tried to update our line with the census to try and find someone else who is living and has an interest. Except for George Westfall and Pat Brandon, I don't think we have anyone else on the list who is interested in our Westfall line. I am sure there are Westfall researchers as shown by Westfall genforum and other lists. But many of those are the Westfalls from Netherlands/Holland/Dutch who mostly settled in NY state. And unfortunately some person or persons who posted information at various sites have made comments that all Westfalls belong to the same family and are most likely connected with a Jurian or Simeon Westfall. I believe this to be a mistake that has managed to be perpetuated. So do not be discouraged. Take some R&R, and I think activity will pick up after the New Year. As you keep telling people, the archives have loads of information. Maybe some people have finally gotten the message and are reading them. :"Cuz" Peggy Lyte Tyrrell ==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== Our mail list archives: http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=amrev-hessians http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L Founded by John Helmut Merz, Hessian soldier researcher. His Canadian research material is deposited with the Marilyn Adams Genealogical Research Centre, Ameliasburg, Ontario.