Thanks much, to Dwayne, for his analysis of merits on Groff books. I have struggled with some of the many qualified & iffy statements in Book 2. I appreciate having his studious view of these multi-faceted prolific families. My interest in Graff/Groff/Groves is rather oblique as my 7th grt grdmother was Eva Marie Graff b 1722 in Rot-am-See, Germany and my relationship is because she married George Leonard Emmert, thence on down thru families Houtz, Gish, Statler & Switzer. Wayne Lucore Dwayne Wrightsman <dwayne55@comcast.net> wrote: The accounts in the two volumes of Groff books does not substantially jibe with the material in the Ephrata Brethren Death Registers and in the Lancaster County Deed Book entries for my particular East Cocalico Township Graff family. There are two many Graffs/Groves in the whole of Lancaster County to account for all of them. Seems that the various Groff articles and Groff books on the Groff families of the whole county are revised over and over. That is why I have narrowed my search, doing my own research on my own particular Graff family using only documented sources. I am finding that the accounts of Richard W. Davis on his mennosearch.com comes fairly close to my own documentation as far as the Ephrata/Cocalico Graff family is concerned.