This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/GAE.2ACIB/103.1 Message Board Post: Hey, everybody! Jan here. Something just occurred to me (duh!!) that some of our Bieber lines are are not Lutheran or Reformed Church. Not all of us came to America during the Palatine movement... Not all of us descend from Hans Dietrich Bieber. I think it would be a great idea if we shared our respective religious roots. None of my notes indicates a religious preference until a reference to the Organ Community, Rowan Co, North Carolina for Elias Beaver, descendant of Hans Dietrich. He was born in 1811. The Organ Church was Lutheran, and the church down the road, the Reform Church, was Lower Stone, built just 1 foot bigger that Zion (Organ)... very big conflict... A big part of our genealogical searches is religion. It might help many on the list to connect with ancestors if we posted our knowledge of reglious connections, connected to specific names and dates. We are ALL family, no matter what. I, for one, was baptized and confirmed Lutheran; but that doesn't mean all my ancestors were! Some may have "converted" from Judaism to survive the holocaust. And, others had enough "intestinal fortitude" ....