Susan: Of course, let me know the URL of your web site and I'll add it as a link (and vice versa is OK too). John Charles Tippet JohnDoeTippet@csi.com ---------- > From: SUSAN L DEBRUNNER <S_DEBRUNNER@prodigy.net> > To: BEHYMER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: New Behymer Home Page > Date: Saturday, September 19, 1998 9:39 AM > > 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 > > > > >