I was able to easily borrow a copy of this book through my library's Link+ system, but if you don't have that, you can get a copy thru an inter-library loan via your local library. It is a very worthwhile book. winter On Jul 20, 2008, at 4:26 AM, Emmert F. Bittinger wrote: > Hello John, > To answer your question. I don't have a copy of a separate > history of > the Grossnickle Church, but I would suppose that the local leople do > have > such a history written up. However, the book by Prof. J. M. Henry, > History > of the Church of the Brethren in Maryland, (1930s) has a sizable > history of > the congregation, with a special emphasis on Daniel Leatherman, > founder of > the congregation. This book, of course, is now very rare and long > out of > print. > I am wondering about your statement that "my ancestry came through > there". McLeod, of course, is not a German name, and these people > would have > been German speaking. You may not have meant that they were > Brethren at > that time? Of course, the wife sometimes married out of the > church. How > did you mean that? > I checked my J. M. Henry book, but no McLeod name is indexed > there, but > the index is quite inadequate, still unlikely that your ancesters on > the > MdCleod side were Brethren.? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "John McLeod" <jm6@hubwest.com> > To: <brethren@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Sunday, July 20, 2008 12:49 AM > Subject: Re: [BRE] Brethren history resources > > >> Has anyone ever written a little history of the Grossnickle COB, >> comparable >> to the ones that Austin Cooper has done for four other churches???? >> I am beginning to imagine that part of my ancestry came through >> there, as >> well as the part which is known to have come through Broad Run. >> >> Thank you from John McLeod >> >> At 02:30 PM 7/17/08 -0400, "Emmert F. Bittinger" >> <ebitting@bridgewater.edu> >> wrote: >>> An easy source for materials on Brethren History is the Brethren >>> Press, >>> 1451 >>> Dundee Ave., Elgin, Ill. 60120-1694. You could order an >>> inexpensive paper >>> back on Brethren History. Ask for "Heritage and Promise" a >>> paperback, I >>> think perhaps even less than $10.00, but I am not sure. Emmert >>> Bittinger >>> >>> >>> ------------------------ >>> 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:McAdamsr@hotmail.com >>> ------------------------ >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> 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 >>> --- >>> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude] >> >> --- >> [This E-mail scanned for viruses by Declude] >> >> >> ------------------------ >> 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:McAdamsr@hotmail.com >> ------------------------ >> >> ------------------------------- >> 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 > ------------------------ > Support Our Sponsoring Agency > The Fellowship Of Brethren Genealogists (FOBG) > For further information contact Ron McAdams > mailto:McAdamsr@hotmail.com > ------------------------ > > ------------------------------- > 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