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    1. Re: [BRE] Mack, Schneider, etc. marriages
    2. Dwayne, I would like to see the website that you are accessing, kind of compare and contrast with the Dutch website that I found. Could you post the title of the site and the URL? I would appreciate that. David Myers On Thu, 14 Feb 2008 08:06:46 -0500 "Dwayne Wrightsman" <dwayne55@comcast.net> writes: > David, > > My guess is that William G. Willoughby did access the original > records, > hand-written in Dutch, but that he had problems translating them > into > English for writing his book. I do not have a copy of his book yet, > so I > wonder how many of these Mack women he ascribed as daughters of > Alexander > Mack Sr. > > I did the same thing that you did, i.e., track down the Brethren > marriages > on the Internet. Because the web site I used had transcriptions > rather than > images, I was not able to discern whether the notes about the Macks > were > original or added to the original entries by the transcriber, in > which case > we cannot be sure who these Mack women belonged to. My date for the > Susanna > Mack(ingh) entry agrees with yours, so our sources agree. However, > my > source does have an (added?) note that she was a daughter of > Alexander Mack. > My source has no note about Maria Mack(ing), only that she married > Christoffel Kalckleser. > > There were at least four other Brethren marriages in these data > sources of > those who came over on the Ship Allen in 1729. I'll wait to see > what you > come up with and then we can compare notes. > > Hope others might become interested and jump into the fray. I think > we can > agree that the Schneider problem has finally been resolved. Voila! > > Dwayne Wrightsman

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