Had no problem getting to Wayne's blog by using all of the reference: http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog/89-research- blog/4719-discussion-1 Rog Rhoads ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 08:58:46 -0500 From: "Wayne Webb" <SpiWebb@AOL.Com> Subject: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends To: <brethren@rootsweb.com> Cc: 'Sandra Studebaker' <sastudebaker@att.net> Message-ID: <1077A8E914994D9EA855CD9AED595A9B@Newi7> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Morning Fellow List Members, Well, another year has come and gone in Brethren historical circles. To start the new year I am going to start a blog of just what it is accomplished on a weekly basis in furthering the research into that same Brethren history. My friend Dr. Ron Pancner in a private e-mail to me a short while ago asked am innocuous question. He asked, "What are your new tasks?", which were somewhat mirrored in sentiment by Roberta J. Estes. To be honest I had not a clue on how to respond as daily I may work on updating the knowledge base of the various ministers and congregations of the church and the next day, or at the same time, be working on a book about the deed indexes of Montgomery county, Ohio. Call me a Genealogical Bee, pollinating all the historical flowers I come across. I may not get the whole field pollinated, but I do my best to get as many as I can. This is often more than is accomplished by a bevy of others. Much has been achieved in furthering the known history of the church. Amongst many, many things attained in the past year is that I have been working diligently with Mr. David Roepke, the archivist for both the Ashland University Archives and the Brethren Church Archives. We have created a working, though the contents await further development, web site <http://ashland.brethrenarchives.com/> to better making their materials available to the public. At the same time and as a transition of his existing web site, I was able to move his domain <http://auarchives.com/> to a new server company giving David better service and at a lower cost. We are doing this as funding becomes available, and more often as not without any at all. For instance, the other day while working on the extended family of Elder Daniel Miller (1755-1822) of the Miami Valley of Ohio, I came across a descendant of his, William Hess (1860-1940) by name, of whom not much was known when recorded in The Brethren Encyclopedia (@1983). After working all day on he and a selection of other ministers with the same last name, I had updated a lot of information. Often what happens is that while working on Person A I will come across information on Person B and C, and others, at the same time. A long story short, at the end of the day I had updated nearly a dozen ministers and elders of the church. So. . ., I thought I would start a blog of my weekly Brethren research exploits. The thought is that by starting a blog, and adding to it little notes daily, which will be released either weekly or bi-weekly others may find some interest in those tasks. While it will not likely go into any great detail it may offer others avenues of research for other's research projects. If you wish to view the inaugural article of Research <http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog/89-research- blog/4719-discussion-1> Blog please feel free to do so. It is set up so that you can leave comments if you would like to do so. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church Past Editor: Brethren Roots Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook

You are welcome Pat. One of these days I am going to work on the Wagner, Waggoner, etc. families of Jefferson township, Montgomery county, Ohio. They interest me because they intermarry with several of my "fun" families in that region. Amongst those families are the Moyers (Myers) and Bowser families. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church Past Editor: Brethren Roots Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook -----Original Message----- From: Pat J. [mailto:patiowamom@netins.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 3:57 PM To: SpiWebb@aol.com; brethren@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Thanks, Wayne. Happy New Year to you and thank you for all the work you have done for preserving Brethren history! My husband's Brethren line goes back to Barbara E. Wagner and John J. Wagoner and I am also thankful to Delores Wolfe Baker for her work and the books she published. Without it, I would be very little idea of where to start.

I got the same message and went to the lowest option, which was "Home." That took me to a page titled "Books" (Wayne's offerings), then I found a link to the blog below that. Sharon Mills ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Hoese" <ruthjh@gmail.com> To: SpiWebb@aol.com, brethren@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 12:27:43 PM Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Happy New Year to All and thank you to Wayne Webb for all his work. Wayne, When I clicked on your link I got a 404 page not found message so I did what I usually do in those cases and deleted part of the url. In this case it left me with this: http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog which loaded immediately. I then clicked on the recently added link that is to the right and got the first of the blog posts. I may be the only one who had to do this, but if others are having trouble getting the site, try it. Ruth On 1/1/2014 7:58 AM, Wayne Webb wrote: > Morning Fellow List Members, > > > > Well, another year has come and gone in Brethren historical circles. To > start the new year I am going to start a blog of just what it is > accomplished on a weekly basis in furthering the research into that same > Brethren history. > > > > My friend Dr. Ron Pancner in a private e-mail to me a short while ago asked > am innocuous question. He asked, "What are your new tasks?", which were > somewhat mirrored in sentiment by Roberta J. Estes. To be honest I had not > a clue on how to respond as daily I may work on updating the knowledge base > of the various ministers and congregations of the church and the next day, > or at the same time, be working on a book about the deed indexes of > Montgomery county, Ohio. Call me a Genealogical Bee, pollinating all the > historical flowers I come across. I may not get the whole field pollinated, > but I do my best to get as many as I can. This is often more than is > accomplished by a bevy of others. Much has been achieved in furthering the > known history of the church. > > > > Amongst many, many things attained in the past year is that I have been > working diligently with Mr. David Roepke, the archivist for both the Ashland > University Archives and the Brethren Church Archives. We have created a > working, though the contents await further development, web site > <http://ashland.brethrenarchives.com/> to better making their materials > available to the public. At the same time and as a transition of his > existing web site, I was able to move his domain <http://auarchives.com/> > to a new server company giving David better service and at a lower cost. We > are doing this as funding becomes available, and more often as not without > any at all. > > > > For instance, the other day while working on the extended family of Elder > Daniel Miller (1755-1822) of the Miami Valley of Ohio, I came across a > descendant of his, William Hess (1860-1940) by name, of whom not much was > known when recorded in The Brethren Encyclopedia (@1983). After working all > day on he and a selection of other ministers with the same last name, I had > updated a lot of information. Often what happens is that while working on > Person A I will come across information on Person B and C, and others, at > the same time. A long story short, at the end of the day I had updated > nearly a dozen ministers and elders of the church. > > > > So. . ., I thought I would start a blog of my weekly Brethren research > exploits. The thought is that by starting a blog, and adding to it little > notes daily, which will be released either weekly or bi-weekly others may > find some interest in those tasks. While it will not likely go into any > great detail it may offer others avenues of research for other's research > projects. > > > > If you wish to view the inaugural article of Research > <http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog/89-research- > blog/4719-discussion-1> Blog please feel free to do so. It is set up so > that you can leave comments if you would like to do so. > > > > Cordially, > > A. Wayne Webb > > Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church > > Past Editor: Brethren Roots > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books > <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers > <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, > <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings > <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> > > In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook > > > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

If you can't remember just do an internet search on "URL shortener" :-) Bob Harter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Webb" <SpiWebb@aol.com> To: <brethren@rootsweb.com>; "'Ruth Hoese'" <ruthhoese@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 12:58 PM Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends > Mrs. Hoese, > > > > As for the shortening of the URLs for Rootweb.Com, the tips supplied by > Mr. > Hoff are suggested. He shortened the URL for everyone to <http:// > http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr> to which I thanked him. Just afterwards Mr. Harter > was kind enough to pass along tips on the same subject. I had finally, > just > before getting his e-mail, figured out how to do it. It works like a > charm > with one caveat. Now I have to try and remember one more thing before I > send out a posting to this list. >

Congratulations Wayne on your new blog. I will visit. Your URL was long and split over two lines so the link did not work without cutting and pasting. I shorten it here for others: http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr A suggestion that the link to your home page is much shorter and doesn't even need the index.html but I noticed there is no obvious link to the blog page off your dropdowns on your index page. You might add that to your index page and then the URL to your blog would not need to be so long. Good luck with your project. Ray Hoff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Webb" <SpiWebb@aol.com> To: brethren@rootsweb.com Cc: "Sandra Studebaker" <sastudebaker@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 8:58:46 AM Subject: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Morning Fellow List Members, Well, another year has come and gone in Brethren historical circles. To start the new year I am going to start a blog of just what it is accomplished on a weekly basis in furthering the research into that same Brethren history. My friend Dr. Ron Pancner in a private e-mail to me a short while ago asked am innocuous question. He asked, "What are your new tasks?", which were somewhat mirrored in sentiment by Roberta J. Estes. To be honest I had not a clue on how to respond as daily I may work on updating the knowledge base of the various ministers and congregations of the church and the next day, or at the same time, be working on a book about the deed indexes of Montgomery county, Ohio. Call me a Genealogical Bee, pollinating all the historical flowers I come across. I may not get the whole field pollinated, but I do my best to get as many as I can. This is often more than is accomplished by a bevy of others. Much has been achieved in furthering the known history of the church. Amongst many, many things attained in the past year is that I have been working diligently with Mr. David Roepke, the archivist for both the Ashland University Archives and the Brethren Church Archives. We have created a working, though the contents await further development, web site <http://ashland.brethrenarchives.com/> to better making their materials available to the public. At the same time and as a transition of his existing web site, I was able to move his domain <http://auarchives.com/> to a new server company giving David better service and at a lower cost. We are doing this as funding becomes available, and more often as not without any at all. For instance, the other day while working on the extended family of Elder Daniel Miller (1755-1822) of the Miami Valley of Ohio, I came across a descendant of his, William Hess (1860-1940) by name, of whom not much was known when recorded in The Brethren Encyclopedia (@1983). After working all day on he and a selection of other ministers with the same last name, I had updated a lot of information. Often what happens is that while working on Person A I will come across information on Person B and C, and others, at the same time. A long story short, at the end of the day I had updated nearly a dozen ministers and elders of the church. So. . ., I thought I would start a blog of my weekly Brethren research exploits. The thought is that by starting a blog, and adding to it little notes daily, which will be released either weekly or bi-weekly others may find some interest in those tasks. While it will not likely go into any great detail it may offer others avenues of research for other's research projects. If you wish to view the inaugural article of Research <http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog/89-research- blog/4719-discussion-1> Blog please feel free to do so. It is set up so that you can leave comments if you would like to do so. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church Past Editor: Brethren Roots Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Thanks, Wayne. Happy New Year to you and thank you for all the work you have done for preserving Brethren history! My husband’s Brethren line goes back to Barbara E. Wagner and John J. Wagoner and I am also thankful to Delores Wolfe Baker for her work and the books she published. Without it, I would be very little idea of where to start.

Mrs. Hoese, As for the shortening of the URLs for Rootweb.Com, the tips supplied by Mr. Hoff are suggested. He shortened the URL for everyone to <http:// http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr> to which I thanked him. Just afterwards Mr. Harter was kind enough to pass along tips on the same subject. I had finally, just before getting his e-mail, figured out how to do it. It works like a charm with one caveat. Now I have to try and remember one more thing before I send out a posting to this list. On another note, I made an error which by accident made the article unavailable to non-members of the site. This has been remedied and all I can is that I am human. Everyone should be able to access the article now. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church Past Editor: Brethren Roots Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook -----Original Message----- From: Ruth Hoese [mailto:ruthjh@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 12:28 PM To: SpiWebb@aol.com; brethren@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Happy New Year to All and thank you to Wayne Webb for all his work. Wayne, When I clicked on your link I got a 404 page not found message so I did what I usually do in those cases and deleted part of the url. In this case it left me with this: http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog which loaded immediately. I then clicked on the recently added link that is to the right and got the first of the blog posts. I may be the only one who had to do this, but if others are having trouble getting the site, try it. Ruth

Wayne, There are several internet programs that will shorten the URL for you and you don't have to know anything. :) For example Google has a URL shortener, http://goo.gl/ You simply copy your URL into the given space and hit the button. You have the same thing at http://ow.ly/url/shorten-url In fact, Webopedia has a list of 20 URL shortener programs at http://www.webopedia.com/quick_ref/20-ways-to-shorten-a-url.html --- all FREE! Bob Harter ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Webb" <SpiWebb@aol.com> To: <captainlaser@comcast.net>; <brethren@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 10:33 AM Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends > Morning Ray, > > > > Ain't web design a royal endeavor of trial and error. I cannot control > how > Rootsweb, since it takes a HTML or RTF formatted e-mail and turns it into > plain text, the links come across. As to how you shortened it the URL, > that > is a mystery to me and I applaud your ability to do so. I noticed on > Wikipedia that it can be accomplished by a service company. I ain't going > to pay someone to do something, not having extra cash to be throwing it > around. The rest of the Wiki page is Greek to me. <grin> > > > > As for accessing the blog via the menu system, the link when opened shows > a > breadcrumb just above the article itself, just below the logo. > Interpreting > that it means that the Research Blog is a child of the Home menu at the > top. > Hey, I never said I was a rocket scientist when it comes to this stuff. > I'm > more of a firecracker in a bucket witch doctor. > > > > And thank you. > > > > Cordially, > > A. Wayne Webb > > Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church > > Past Editor: Brethren Roots > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books > <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers > <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, > <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings > <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> > > In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook > > _____ > > From: captainlaser@comcast.net [mailto:captainlaser@comcast.net] > Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 10:00 AM > To: SpiWebb@aol.com; brethren@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends > > > > Congratulations Wayne on your new blog. I will visit. > > Your URL was long and split over two lines so the link did not work > without > cutting and pasting. I shorten it here for others: > > http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr > > > > A suggestion that the link to your home page is much shorter and doesn't > even need the index.html but I noticed there is no obvious link to the > blog > page off your dropdowns on your index page. You might add that to your > index page and then the URL to your blog would not need to be so long. > > > > Good luck with your project. > > > > Ray Hoff > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message > >

Happy New Year to All and thank you to Wayne Webb for all his work. Wayne, When I clicked on your link I got a 404 page not found message so I did what I usually do in those cases and deleted part of the url. In this case it left me with this: http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog which loaded immediately. I then clicked on the recently added link that is to the right and got the first of the blog posts. I may be the only one who had to do this, but if others are having trouble getting the site, try it. Ruth On 1/1/2014 7:58 AM, Wayne Webb wrote: > Morning Fellow List Members, > > > > Well, another year has come and gone in Brethren historical circles. To > start the new year I am going to start a blog of just what it is > accomplished on a weekly basis in furthering the research into that same > Brethren history. > > > > My friend Dr. Ron Pancner in a private e-mail to me a short while ago asked > am innocuous question. He asked, "What are your new tasks?", which were > somewhat mirrored in sentiment by Roberta J. Estes. To be honest I had not > a clue on how to respond as daily I may work on updating the knowledge base > of the various ministers and congregations of the church and the next day, > or at the same time, be working on a book about the deed indexes of > Montgomery county, Ohio. Call me a Genealogical Bee, pollinating all the > historical flowers I come across. I may not get the whole field pollinated, > but I do my best to get as many as I can. This is often more than is > accomplished by a bevy of others. Much has been achieved in furthering the > known history of the church. > > > > Amongst many, many things attained in the past year is that I have been > working diligently with Mr. David Roepke, the archivist for both the Ashland > University Archives and the Brethren Church Archives. We have created a > working, though the contents await further development, web site > <http://ashland.brethrenarchives.com/> to better making their materials > available to the public. At the same time and as a transition of his > existing web site, I was able to move his domain <http://auarchives.com/> > to a new server company giving David better service and at a lower cost. We > are doing this as funding becomes available, and more often as not without > any at all. > > > > For instance, the other day while working on the extended family of Elder > Daniel Miller (1755-1822) of the Miami Valley of Ohio, I came across a > descendant of his, William Hess (1860-1940) by name, of whom not much was > known when recorded in The Brethren Encyclopedia (@1983). After working all > day on he and a selection of other ministers with the same last name, I had > updated a lot of information. Often what happens is that while working on > Person A I will come across information on Person B and C, and others, at > the same time. A long story short, at the end of the day I had updated > nearly a dozen ministers and elders of the church. > > > > So. . ., I thought I would start a blog of my weekly Brethren research > exploits. The thought is that by starting a blog, and adding to it little > notes daily, which will be released either weekly or bi-weekly others may > find some interest in those tasks. While it will not likely go into any > great detail it may offer others avenues of research for other's research > projects. > > > > If you wish to view the inaugural article of Research > <http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog/89-research- > blog/4719-discussion-1> Blog please feel free to do so. It is set up so > that you can leave comments if you would like to do so. > > > > Cordially, > > A. Wayne Webb > > Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church > > Past Editor: Brethren Roots > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books > <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers > <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, > <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings > <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> > > In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook > > > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to BRETHREN-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Morning Ray, Ain't web design a royal endeavor of trial and error. I cannot control how Rootsweb, since it takes a HTML or RTF formatted e-mail and turns it into plain text, the links come across. As to how you shortened it the URL, that is a mystery to me and I applaud your ability to do so. I noticed on Wikipedia that it can be accomplished by a service company. I ain't going to pay someone to do something, not having extra cash to be throwing it around. The rest of the Wiki page is Greek to me. <grin> As for accessing the blog via the menu system, the link when opened shows a breadcrumb just above the article itself, just below the logo. Interpreting that it means that the Research Blog is a child of the Home menu at the top. Hey, I never said I was a rocket scientist when it comes to this stuff. I'm more of a firecracker in a bucket witch doctor. And thank you. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church Past Editor: Brethren Roots Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook _____ From: captainlaser@comcast.net [mailto:captainlaser@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 10:00 AM To: SpiWebb@aol.com; brethren@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Congratulations Wayne on your new blog. I will visit. Your URL was long and split over two lines so the link did not work without cutting and pasting. I shorten it here for others: http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr A suggestion that the link to your home page is much shorter and doesn't even need the index.html but I noticed there is no obvious link to the blog page off your dropdowns on your index page. You might add that to your index page and then the URL to your blog would not need to be so long. Good luck with your project. Ray Hoff

Morning Fellow List Members, Well, another year has come and gone in Brethren historical circles. To start the new year I am going to start a blog of just what it is accomplished on a weekly basis in furthering the research into that same Brethren history. My friend Dr. Ron Pancner in a private e-mail to me a short while ago asked am innocuous question. He asked, "What are your new tasks?", which were somewhat mirrored in sentiment by Roberta J. Estes. To be honest I had not a clue on how to respond as daily I may work on updating the knowledge base of the various ministers and congregations of the church and the next day, or at the same time, be working on a book about the deed indexes of Montgomery county, Ohio. Call me a Genealogical Bee, pollinating all the historical flowers I come across. I may not get the whole field pollinated, but I do my best to get as many as I can. This is often more than is accomplished by a bevy of others. Much has been achieved in furthering the known history of the church. Amongst many, many things attained in the past year is that I have been working diligently with Mr. David Roepke, the archivist for both the Ashland University Archives and the Brethren Church Archives. We have created a working, though the contents await further development, web site <http://ashland.brethrenarchives.com/> to better making their materials available to the public. At the same time and as a transition of his existing web site, I was able to move his domain <http://auarchives.com/> to a new server company giving David better service and at a lower cost. We are doing this as funding becomes available, and more often as not without any at all. For instance, the other day while working on the extended family of Elder Daniel Miller (1755-1822) of the Miami Valley of Ohio, I came across a descendant of his, William Hess (1860-1940) by name, of whom not much was known when recorded in The Brethren Encyclopedia (@1983). After working all day on he and a selection of other ministers with the same last name, I had updated a lot of information. Often what happens is that while working on Person A I will come across information on Person B and C, and others, at the same time. A long story short, at the end of the day I had updated nearly a dozen ministers and elders of the church. So. . ., I thought I would start a blog of my weekly Brethren research exploits. The thought is that by starting a blog, and adding to it little notes daily, which will be released either weekly or bi-weekly others may find some interest in those tasks. While it will not likely go into any great detail it may offer others avenues of research for other's research projects. If you wish to view the inaugural article of Research <http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog/89-research- blog/4719-discussion-1> Blog please feel free to do so. It is set up so that you can leave comments if you would like to do so. Cordially, A. Wayne Webb Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church Past Editor: Brethren Roots Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook

Happy New Years!  Does anybody have Genealogy Bank subscription?  Need this obit from 1994:  Weltha Bashore Lambert 26 Dec 1994 in Marietta, Cobb, Georgia, USA

Searching for origins of Clyde Roy Scott b.9/3/1883 Vincennes, IN Clyde was son of Augustus H. Scott and Fihlena Honn. He married Nancy Catherine Kimmel, daughter of Hiram H. Kimmel and Ida Alice Meyers who were connected with the Church of the Brethren. *************** My father pastored the only Brethren Church that was down near Vincennes - at Lacy, near Shoals, about 50 miles east of Vincennes at US150 - on IN550, the "old road" to Louisville. It is now closed (or gone "independent"). I know of no church ever being in Vincennes. There were several churches from Shoals - north and east, but they all went with the Disciples of Christ/Church of Christ movement. The Pennsylvania/Maryland Annual Meeting Elders "expelled" these Brethren (according to the "Brethren Association" statements), because of their participation in the "Great Revival" of Kentucky - c1820. There were Kimmels down in early Kentucky, Muhlenberg Co (before 1800). Philip Kimmel (1756-1829) married Rachel (Martin) Stump 2/w - their son John, came up to Spencer Co IN - as a Primitive Baptist Preacher. They were part of the migration from Brothers Valley, Somerset Co PA. The Muhlenberg Brethren went both Disciples of Christ and Primitive Baptist, after these churches were "expelled" by the Annual Meeting Elders. The Hon/Honn families were originally Brethren, but Elder Peter Hon was one of the two Kentucky Elders placed on the Ban, and went with the Disciples. He was at the Hinkston Creek Brethren Church (largest congregation we had in Kentucky), which is now the East Union Church of Christ, East Union, Nicholas Co KY. Members of his family came over into Indiana - at least to the Indian River Church, Bradford, Harrison Co IN (another Church of Christ, now). Merle C Rummel

Clyde was son of Augustus H. Scott and Fihlena Honn. He married Nancy Catherine Kimmel, daughter of Hiram H. Kimmel and Ida Alice Meyers who were connected with the Church of the Brethren.

For those that are interested or descend from both the Cripe (been 2 related deaths) and Brumbaugh (2 related deaths too) families that I am not already 'in touch by email' with, please email me off the list.  Thanks. Patrick

As at least some of this list knows, I have been working on my Harter family history. I understand that Joseph Harter and his brother, Israel Harter, were early pastors and presiding Elders of the North Manchester church. I understand that Joseph, in particular, was instrumental in the church's foundation. (Their father, John Harter, was an early pastor of the Palestine church - Darke County, Ohio.) I have a picture which is supposedly of Israel, but I have been unable to confirm this. If anyone has pictures of the family, please contact me. My records to date indicate that Israel (and wife, Charlotte Kitson) had only one son, Stephen (1838 to 1898), who had one son, Noble. I have that Noble married Dellie Freshour, but no other information. I have no information on Joseph other than he moved to Wabash County in 1836 and was living in a cabin along the Eel River when Israel arrived a year later. I would like very much to correspond with anyone who is familiar with the early years of the North Manchester church or of the Harter family in North Manchester. Bob Harter

The Gospel Messenger Sept. 15, 1917 page 588 Vol. 66 No. 37 McLouth. – The members residing near here petitioned the Ozawkie church for a division of the territory, which was granted. Sept. 4 the members met and Elders I. L. Hoover and H. L. Brammell and W. O. Beckner met with us. The new organization was effected and will be known as the McLouth church. The writer was selected elder for one year. It was then decided to elect a minister. – Bro. Earl Brower being chosen. By his request the installation was deferred. The church also called one brother to the deacon’s office. The lot fell upon Bro. A. M. Bricker who, with his wife, was installed. We will hold our love feast Oct. 21, at 7 P. M. the writer was elected delegate to the District Meeting, with Bro. James Anderson, alternate. – I. H. Crist. McLouth, Kans., Sept. 5. In a message dated 12/24/13 11:13:22 Pacific Standard Time, KTompk7744 writes: This mimeographed then photographed document was found this week when my sister-in-law's basement flooded. She rented a dumpster for the truly ruined stuff and boxed up other stuff that's only half ruined. This history was in the box she sent to me that's full of hard to read documents. I do not know if this is the history written by Leah Kimmell of Topeka KS, or if that's still out there, lost in the Great Beyond. This sounds more like it was written by someone in the David Kimmel family: "HISTORY OF THE McLOUTH BRETHREN CHURCH "Many years ago when Kansas as a state was very young and immature, there came to this community, from Ohio, in 1864, David Kimmel and his good wife, Leah Reigel Kimmel and their family of six children, their youngest child being born in Kansas. They settled on the farm known now as the Kell Property. Then lived there nearly two years. David Kimmel, who had a vision of building churches in new communities, built benches of native lumber and invited the people to his home and preached the Gospel to them. He had a helper, Uncle Billy Gish, who came horseback from his home in Rock Creek, a member of the Ozawkie Church. He was the grandfather of J.J. Groshong's first wife. During these two years the older Kimmel children attended the Round Grove School and had as their teacher, Jennie Cox. Grandmother Kimmel became dissatisfied with the religious privileges that her Family was having, being fifteen miles from a church, so they moved to the vicinity of Auburn, Illinois, where they had planned to move when they came to Kansas in 1864. In Illinois, together with his Brother-in-law, Dan Flory and others, t hey built Sugar Creek Church, a strong German Baptist Church. Soon after or about the time the Kimmels left this community, the McClanys, Yoders, Garret and Miller families came from Pennsylvania to take up the work. After a few years, in the spring of 1878 when David Kimmel's son, H.H. Kimmel had arrived at young manhood and was thinking of establishing a home, and of the business opportunities of a new country, he and his sister and brother-in-law, Lizzie and Andy Bowman came back to the home they had left in Kansas, and started farming. H. H. Kimmel returned to Illinois in the fall, where in December he married Lydia Bowman, the daughter of Abraham Bowman, a German Baptist minister. Together they came to Kansas, in January 1879 when the Missouri River at Leavenworth was frozen so hard that they crossed on the ice. In 1882 there were 12 members in the Church which they established and they had preaching three times a month. In December of that year I.H. Crist held a series of meetings three miles north of the new t own of McLouth, and soon there were 25 members. Again in November 1883, they held another revival at Round Grove School house. They did not establish a separate church organization, but held their membershp in the Ozawkie Church. Those were trying times, but they kept their Faith, and planned that their children should have an opportunity to worship in a church of their choice. About this time, Abraham L. Bowman, father of Andy, John and Abe Bowman, and Mary Hickerson, Lydia Kimmel and Susan Sykes, came from Illinois to preach for them. >From 1884 to 1894 the Methodist Church was leased, and services were held there. On April 2nd, 1892, a group of people of similar faith, at that time called the Progressive Brethren, organized a church in order that they could worship according to the dictates of their conscience, and the way they interpreted the Scriptures, with the following members: William T Stout, his wife Leona Stout, Blanche Garrett, Daniel Whitmer, George Woodhead and his wife Lucy Woodhead, who met at the home of Brother and Sister Woodhead, and organized a Church known as the Brethren Church of McLouth. Elder W.J.H. Baumann, being with them as Bishop and William T. Stout was confirmed or ordained as Deacon. They held meetings in neighboring school houses or borrowed or rented churches in which to hold their meetings. In the early part of the year 1894, J.R. Kimmel, a Minister of the Brethren Church at Litchfield, Illinois, was called by the Brethren at this place to preach for them. Both organizations feeling the need of a church building, Decided to co-operate. They purchased a lot of Philip Crease for $250.00 and erected a building which cost $2,000.00. The Church was dedicated December 25th, 1894. Reverend Vaniman of McPherson preached the Dedication Sermon. The agreement was that each Church should have half time for preaching services with a combined Sunday School. Duty called us. We are proud of the people who have stayed with us and are the ones who have gone from us to serve our Country in its present need, of our members who are taking up the work in other churches, and we are glad to welcome them back to our church whenever opportunity comes for their return either for a day or longer. We have never been a large church, but we feel that the Lod has called us, and has a work for us. It seems that when we gained in members then some would feel the call to other places for service. A number of families have left us. The younger ones have wished for enlarged opportunities. We are glad to have with us to help celebrate this 50th Anniversary of the building of our Church, Friends and former members from far and near. For members of the other churches of our town and community who have co-operated with us to make this a fitting climax to 50 years of Christian Service. May the Wonderful Light of His Gospel shine with increasing brightness from the Temple of His Faith, Blessing those about us, throughout time and Eternity. Sequel to history: 1972 Rev. John D. Bower, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kimmel was pastor from 1947-1970 when the church was disorganized and the church building was sold to the Church of the Nazarene. Our church produced one missionary, Robert Williams and four ministers, Russell Williams, Leland Kuns, John Bower and Margaret Kuns. By act of the membership which had become so small, the church was disorganized _________________ 19__ and letters were transferred in the most part to other sister churches in Topeka and Lone Star."

This mimeographed then photographed document was found this week when my sister-in-law's basement flooded. She rented a dumpster for the truly ruined stuff and boxed up other stuff that's only half ruined. This history was in the box she sent to me that's full of hard to read documents. I do not know if this is the history written by Leah Kimmell of Topeka KS, or if that's still out there, lost in the Great Beyond. This sounds more like it was written by someone in the David Kimmel family: "HISTORY OF THE McLOUTH BRETHREN CHURCH "Many years ago when Kansas as a state was very young and immature, there came to this community, from Ohio, in 1864, David Kimmel and his good wife, Leah Reigel Kimmel and their family of six children, their youngest child being born in Kansas. They settled on the farm known now as the Kell Property. Then lived there nearly two years. David Kimmel, who had a vision of building churches in new communities, built benches of native lumber and invited the people to his home and preached the Gospel to them. He had a helper, Uncle Billy Gish, who came horseback from his home in Rock Creek, a member of the Ozawkie Church. He was the grandfather of J.J. Groshong's first wife. During these two years the older Kimmel children attended the Round Grove School and had as their teacher, Jennie Cox. Grandmother Kimmel became dissatisfied with the religious privileges that her Family was having, being fifteen miles from a church, so they moved to the vicinity of Auburn, Illinois, where they had planned to move when they came to Kansas in 1864. In Illinois, together with his Brother-in-law, Dan Flory and others, t hey built Sugar Creek Church, a strong German Baptist Church. Soon after or about the time the Kimmels left this community, the McClanys, Yoders, Garret and Miller families came from Pennsylvania to take up the work. After a few years, in the spring of 1878 when David Kimmel's son, H.H. Kimmel had arrived at young manhood and was thinking of establishing a home, and of the business opportunities of a new country, he and his sister and brother-in-law, Lizzie and Andy Bowman came back to the home they had left in Kansas, and started farming. H. H. Kimmel returned to Illinois in the fall, where in December he married Lydia Bowman, the daughter of Abraham Bowman, a German Baptist minister. Together they came to Kansas, in January 1879 when the Missouri River at Leavenworth was frozen so hard that they crossed on the ice. In 1882 there were 12 members in the Church which they established and they had preaching three times a month. In December of that year I.H. Crist held a series of meetings three miles north of the new t own of McLouth, and soon there were 25 members. Again in November 1883, they held another revival at Round Grove School house. They did not establish a separate church organization, but held their membershp in the Ozawkie Church. Those were trying times, but they kept their Faith, and planned that their children should have an opportunity to worship in a church of their choice. About this time, Abraham L. Bowman, father of Andy, John and Abe Bowman, and Mary Hickerson, Lydia Kimmel and Susan Sykes, came from Illinois to preach for them. >From 1884 to 1894 the Methodist Church was leased, and services were held there. On April 2nd, 1892, a group of people of similar faith, at that time called the Progressive Brethren, organized a church in order that they could worship according to the dictates of their conscience, and the way they interpreted the Scriptures, with the following members: William T Stout, his wife Leona Stout, Blanche Garrett, Daniel Whitmer, George Woodhead and his wife Lucy Woodhead, who met at the home of Brother and Sister Woodhead, and organized a Church known as the Brethren Church of McLouth. Elder W.J.H. Baumann, being with them as Bishop and William T. Stout was confirmed or ordained as Deacon. They held meetings in neighboring school houses or borrowed or rented churches in which to hold their meetings. In the early part of the year 1894, J.R. Kimmel, a Minister of the Brethren Church at Litchfield, Illinois, was called by the Brethren at this place to preach for them. Both organizations feeling the need of a church building, Decided to co-operate. They purchased a lot of Philip Crease for $250.00 and erected a building which cost $2,000.00. The Church was dedicated December 25th, 1894. Reverend Vaniman of McPherson preached the Dedication Sermon. The agreement was that each Church should have half time for preaching services with a combined Sunday School. Duty called us. We are proud of the people who have stayed with us and are the ones who have gone from us to serve our Country in its present need, of our members who are taking up the work in other churches, and we are glad to welcome them back to our church whenever opportunity comes for their return either for a day or longer. We have never been a large church, but we feel that the Lod has called us, and has a work for us. It seems that when we gained in members then some would feel the call to other places for service. A number of families have left us. The younger ones have wished for enlarged opportunities. We are glad to have with us to help celebrate this 50th Anniversary of the building of our Church, Friends and former members from far and near. For members of the other churches of our town and community who have co-operated with us to make this a fitting climax to 50 years of Christian Service. May the Wonderful Light of His Gospel shine with increasing brightness from the Temple of His Faith, Blessing those about us, throughout time and Eternity. Sequel to history: 1972 Rev. John D. Bower, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Kimmel was pastor from 1947-1970 when the church was disorganized and the church building was sold to the Church of the Nazarene. Our church produced one missionary, Robert Williams and four ministers, Russell Williams, Leland Kuns, John Bower and Margaret Kuns. By act of the membership which had become so small, the church was disorganized _________________ 19__ and letters were transferred in the most part to other sister churches in Topeka and Lone Star."

A map in the book, "Indiana to 1816," by Barnhart and Riker, shows this strip or "gore" of land (plus parts of Ohio and Switzerland Counties) was not part of the treaties with the Indians that Governor Harrison effected from 1803-1809. Most of northern Indiana was acquired later, but I suspect this land was sold as part of Ohio. The Dearborn County Historical Society says the county seat of Lawrenceburg was within the Hamilton Co Ohio boundaries very early. Looks as if that changed somewhere around Indiana statehood. Researching early land sales within Hamilton County OH is a daunting task. Sharon Mills

My Grandfather, William H. Hendricks, Jr., made the OK Land rush in 1893, he came by horse back and walking from Bancroft, Daviess Co., MO. ************* Way back when - I was in High School (Centreville MI), an elderly neighbor told me of his youth. He had been a "Sooner" - crossed into Oklahoma before the Land Rush. He settled on a nice piece of land - but got "foot-loose" - left it and went to California. Some time later, he returned - to find "His Land" covered with Oil Wells. Up there in Michigan, on the "other farm" - the windows were "the windows of Sears original building" - from Chicago (he said). And I just loved to go to his garage - he had an old Knights Car - with the round pipe bumpers - and wheels as high as my waist. Merle