I am re-posting this message I sent to John Pickelsimer and the Behymer list due to the rootsweb crash. His response has already been posted to the Behymer list. John Charles Tippet JohnDoeTippet@csi.com John: I certainly don't claim to be an authority on the Southern Ohio and Northern Kentucky branch of the family either, however, I think I have enough information gathered over the years to get the ball rolling. Certainly, Rob Dupuy and Sallye Gundy have a lot more information than I. As far as my database being accurate and up-to-date, it is as far in that direction as I have been able to take it. Some of the information that has come to me over the Internet, however, is unverified, and I am sure there are places where I have made assumptions or deductions that are in error. By posting this one master copy we should be able to clean up the obvious errors, and at least annotate where key, unverified (or educated guesses) have been made. I see a bit of a catch 22 in your response to my proposal in that the magnitude of the task at hand will not allow me to have wrung out any and all verification issues prior to posting the initial version of the Behymer genealogy to the Internet. If an error-free initial version is what is expected, then I can't provide that. What I can provide is a reasonable attempt in that direction, which, over time, with a lot of inputs from this list, might evolve into something of that kind. What I am contemplating is a 5 generation descendancy narrative starting with Elder Johan George Behymer (BTW, most of the information for the first couple of generations comes from notes that you compiled and the book that you co-wrote with the other John Pickelsimer). John Charles Tippet JohnDoeTippet@csi.com ---------- > From: JPick323@aol.com > To: BEHYMER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: A Proposal > Date: Friday, September 11, 1998 7:27 AM > > In a message dated 9/11/98 9:28:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > johndoetippet@csi.com writes: > > > To start with, I would include the Clermont County (and early Virginia) > > branches of the Behymer family, as the Eastern Kentucky branch has already > > been quite well documented by John & John Pickelsimer. By Clermont County > > branch, I also mean Campbell County, KY, IN and IL, etc. as well. > > Eventually, I would hope that Jennifer Black would add a pointer from the > > Behymer web page to the Behymer genealogy that I would post, however, I > > haven't heard from her in quite some time, and don't know what's happened > > to her. > John, > I agree that there should be a method of verification on information that has > been gathered on the Picklesimer/Bechtelheimer/Behymer etc. family of northern > Kentucky and southern Ohio. If we take an approach that lets one database be > the master copy then that establishes a point for everyone to focus on. Make > sure that the information contained there is up-to-date and accurate. > > I have not taken part in the discussions relating to this branch of the family > in that I am not an authority (if there is such an animal) on this branch. I > do not consider myself as an authority on my branch of the family. The only > thing that I will admit to is that I have a large amount of information on the > family and can access it very quickly for verification. > > Just recently I received input that would have established another leg to my > branch of the family but due to my insistence on having documented proof, we > found that someone had made an error in their research a few years ago and the > individual that attempting to followup was using this as gospel. It took me > almost two months to find sufficient evidence as proof of a wrong assumption > beeing made. Time that was well worth the effort in that my information could > have been incomplete and this individual was right. The point being, one > should not add information to their database until they are sure that it is > correct. The only exceptions that I make to this is the receipt of > information from family members regarding present generations and their OWN > family information. Lacking the ability to do verification on a lot of this > is the problem. > > Just my 2 cents worth! > > By the way, I have posted my genealogical information on the eastern Kentucky > branch of the family on Family Tree Makers web site. > <A HREF="http://www.familytreemaker.com/users/p/i/c/John-W- > Picklesimer/index.html">Family Tree Maker's Genealogy Site: Picklesimers</A> > This link will put you there if you wish to take a look at the information. > > John Walter Picklesimer >