John, I'm working on my web page with some Behymer info. May I link to your page, or would you prefer I wait until everything is verified/confirmed/etc.? Thanks! --Susan -----Original Message----- From: John Tippet <johndoetippet@csi.com> To: BEHYMER-L@rootsweb.com <BEHYMER-L@rootsweb.com> Date: Saturday, September 19, 1998 10:59 AM Subject: New Behymer Home Page >At the risk of sticking my neck out, I have posted the new Behymer home >page on the web! It can be reached at >http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/JohnDoeTippet/. Keep in mind, >however, that I am only a novice html programmer at this point, so the page >is devoid of pretty pictures, animations etc. (I figure the bells and >whistles can come later - in particular, I would like to add some scanned >images of key source material). I believe the page is functional, however, >and will serve this mailing list well in having a single repository for the >"accepted" version of the Behymer genealogy. > >Of course, this first version is far from the "accepted" version, which I >hope it will evolve into after inputs from this mailing list. I have not >researched the Behymer family for nearly as long as some of the others on >this list, such as Rob Dupuy, Sallye Gundy, Tom Robison and others, so I >hope that the meagre amount of data in this first posting won't offend >anyone's intelligence, especially those die-hard Behymer/P'Simer >researchers among you. > >This initial posting includes only the first 3 generations of the >descendants of Elder John Behymer (aka Johan Georg Behymer). Once we have >corrected this version (or at least annotated it sufficiently to everyone's >satisfaction), I will add the fourth generation, and then the fifth and so >on. Included is an index of sources that references where my data comes >from. Note, however, that I have not completed attaching my sources to >these 1st three generations, in particular, most of the data for the 1st >two generations comes from the book: The Picklesimers of Eastern Kentucky >by John Wayne and John Walter Picklesimer. Where you find data without a >reference, it most likely came from this source. As corrections come in, I >will also be hard at work filling in the missing sources. > >As far as the discussion on what name to use for this web page, I am afraid >that with over 60 different variations of Behymer on record, I opted to use >my own name for the home page, instead. My home page is linked to the >Behymer genealogy. I did it this way because in the future, I may want to >add some of the other families that I am working on. In the Behymer >genealogy, I do not distinguish between all of the variations of the family >name. To keep it simple, I have used: Beckelhymer throughout. If you >think it is important to use the version of the name that a given >individual used most often, I can change it, but let's get a concensus on >this first. > >If you find this web page useful, please bookmark my home page, rather than >the Behymer page that it is linked to, as it contains a counter so we can >see how many "hits" are generated. That will allow me to assess how much >interest there is in all this. > >Lastly, a request: keep in mind that I am only a willing volunteer in this >project, so please don't attack the messager. Repeating myself, I am not >an expert in this field. but I find it an interesting pastime and will do >my part to help document the family history to everyone's satisfaction. > >John Charles Tippet >JohnDoeTippet@csi.com > >