Interesting how things turn out in the final printed page.  When one is dealing with human authorship, we might well expect that there will be some "problems".    I have to chuckle when I read in a community history book where diffn't people sent in their family stories to see I was born in 61 and my parents were married in 62.  I had long assumed I was their legitimate child!! My grandmother had sent the information to the editor.  She just "knew" she'd sent in the right information to the editor.  "That editor" had screwed it up. When I went to visit the editor, there lay my grandmother's letter.   Guess who had put down the wrong dates?      I laughed about it but my poor parents were horrified, especially when I told them Grandma was the one who'd made the mistake. So we find mistakes.    Life is full of them.   Don't get too bent out of shape.    I just heard a song on the Christian radio station that puts things well whenever we're about to get upset about something it goes: "Sometimes Jesus calms the storm, sometimes he just calms me!"    Dan -----Original Message----- From: "gale honeyman" <[email protected]> Sent 4/10/2011 12:21:24 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [BRE] In Defense of the BEI am in awe that such a fete was accomplished in such a few short years. Yes there are errors and omissions, but I have yet to see a work of genealogical or historical nature complete to the last dotted 'i' and crossed 't'. Overall, we would be much less informed about our rich Brethren heritage without its existence. However I must take a bit of exception to your statement Dwayne. I am the author of the Spitler family article. I submitted it air tight with the prescribed number of words. It was edited to include a completely different Spitler family that had no connection to the one of the article. Unfortunately, it was not passed back to me for review, so it is incorrectly printed. I also submitted the Flora (Flory) Family article which the family history editor added to and changed. The one fact that should have been included, but was deleted is there are in excess of 500 ministers and missionaries of which I have in my records that descend from the 1733 emigrants, Joseph & Mary (Bugh) Flory. Nearly all represented various branches of the Brethren. Even those of us who strive are not always accurately quoted in the printed word. Gale Honeyman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dwayne Wrightsman" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, April 09, 2011 11:40 AM Subject: [BRE] In Defense of the BE When I use the BE I always look up the author as a part of reading the article. If the author is not a historian or a known expert on the subject, I read it with great reservation. ------------------------ Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN ------------------------ Support Our Sponsoring Agency The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) For further information contact Ron McAdams mailto:[email protected] ------------------------ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message