I smiled a bit when I saw this post- quite a few Kensinger/Gansinger researchers believe that Abraham Gansinger (1730-1813) married Maria Catherine Schaeffer, while many Schaeffer researchers think she married an Abraham Kinsinger (or Kissinger). This is one popular lady! Ken> To: brethren@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:45:42 -0500> From: myerswd@juno.com> Subject: Re: [BRE] Family of George Conrad Mack, chr. 1674 (preliminary analysis)> > Emmert,> > Thanks for weighing in. I'll have to keep this in mind as I research> this family. Right now, I'm just trying to find my way around the> Kitzmiller family in the 1730-1750 time period. There is a surprising> amount of odd research that has gotten into the genealogies of this> family. Just as an example, Johannes Kitzmiller, Sr. is supposed to have> had a daughter named Maria Catharine who married Andreas Krafft. Just by> coincidence, Andreas Krafft is another one of my maternal ancestors. It> turns out that about half the Krafft researchers think that Andreas' wife> was Maria Catharine Kitzmiller, while the other half think that she was> Maria Catharine Schaefer. Hard to straighten out, especially when there> are researchers of both wives who give a specific date and place for the> marriage between Andreas and his wife in Germany -- and it's the same> date and place, just a different surname for the wife!> > There also are Kitzmiller researchers who think that the Christian> Schneider who died in Lancaster Co., PA in 1793 was married to a daughter> of Johannes Kitzmiller, Sr. Don't know where that one came from but it> is my hope that I can track a lot of this back to the original source and> find out what the heck is going on here. I recently was contacted by a> descendant of Christian Schneider who still lives in the New Holland> area. I hope that will lead to some progress on these families.> > David Myers> > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:29:53 -0400 "Emmert F. Bittinger"> <ebitting@bridgewater.edu> writes:> > David, message from Emmert.> > I noted your efforts at researching the Kitzmiller family. At > > the risk > > of giving you information you already know and have, I will mention > > that the > > Kitzmiller family, or part of it, migrated from Lancaster County > > into what > > is now West Virginia, formerly Virginia, very early, perhaps as > > early as the > > 1790s. Many Brethren and Mennonites migrated because of the > > pressures and > > antagonisms engendered during the Rev. War, because the Anabaptists > > would > > not fight for freedom from England. The Kitzmillers became members > > of the > > Brick Church of the Brethren, then when Locust Grove and Allegheny > > churches > > became independent of Brick Church (Greenland Cong.), they belonged > > there. > > The area today is near Bismark and Mt. 'Storm W. Va. I personally > > know > > members of the Kitzmiller family there. Emmert Bittinger > > ____________________________________________________________> Stuck in a dead end job?? Click to start living your dreams by earning an online degree.> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nNfaH09ZtPgB7onWxXSfqqltZDDIQyrN579v7VgyO74HBaw/> > ------------------------> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you back! http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashback

And I have in the Brechner/Shaffer side of my family Grissinger/Grissing/Gresing which sometimes appears as Chrisinger/Krisinger in Somerset County, Pennsylvania. John Shafer> From: khkensinger@hotmail.com> To: brethren@rootsweb.com> Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2008 14:06:12 +0000> Subject: Re: [BRE] Family of George Conrad Mack, chr. 1674 (preliminary analysis)> > > I smiled a bit when I saw this post- quite a few Kensinger/Gansinger researchers believe that> Abraham Gansinger (1730-1813) married Maria Catherine Schaeffer, while many Schaeffer researchers> think she married an Abraham Kinsinger (or Kissinger). This is one popular lady!> Ken> To: brethren@rootsweb.com> Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 21:45:42 -0500> From: myerswd@juno.com> Subject: Re: [BRE] Family of George Conrad Mack, chr. 1674 (preliminary analysis)> > Emmert,> > Thanks for weighing in. I'll have to keep this in mind as I research> this family. Right now, I'm just trying to find my way around the> Kitzmiller family in the 1730-1750 time period. There is a surprising> amount of odd research that has gotten into the genealogies of this> family. Just as an example, Johannes Kitzmiller, Sr. is supposed to have> had a daughter named Maria Catharine who married Andreas Krafft. Just by> coincidence, Andreas Krafft is another one of my maternal ancestors. It> turns out that about half the Krafft researchers think that Andreas' wife> was Maria Catharine Kitzmiller, while the other half think that she was> Maria Catharine Schaefer. Hard to straighten out, especially when there> are researchers of both wives who give a specific date and place for the> marri!> age between Andreas and his wife in Germany -- and it's the same> date and place, just a different surname for the wife!> > There also are Kitzmiller researchers who think that the Christian> Schneider who died in Lancaster Co., PA in 1793 was married to a daughter> of Johannes Kitzmiller, Sr. Don't know where that one came from but it> is my hope that I can track a lot of this back to the original source and> find out what the heck is going on here. I recently was contacted by a> descendant of Christian Schneider who still lives in the New Holland> area. I hope that will lead to some progress on these families.> > David Myers> > > > On Tue, 24 Jun 2008 09:29:53 -0400 "Emmert F. Bittinger"> <ebitting@bridgewater.edu> writes:> > David, message from Emmert.> > I noted your efforts at researching the Kitzmiller family. At > > the risk > > of giving you information you already know and have, I will mention > > that the > > Kitzmiller family, or part of it, migrated from Lancast!> er County > > into what > > is now West Virginia, formerly Virginia, v> ery early, perhaps as > > early as the > > 1790s. Many Brethren and Mennonites migrated because of the > > pressures and > > antagonisms engendered during the Rev. War, because the Anabaptists > > would > > not fight for freedom from England. The Kitzmillers became members > > of the > > Brick Church of the Brethren, then when Locust Grove and Allegheny > > churches > > became independent of Brick Church (Greenland Cong.), they belonged > > there. > > The area today is near Bismark and Mt. 'Storm W. Va. I personally > > know > > members of the Kitzmiller family there. Emmert Bittinger > > ____________________________________________________________> Stuck in a dead end job?? Click to start living your dreams by earning an online degree.> http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL2141/fc/Ioyw6i3nNfaH09ZtPgB7onWxXSfqqltZDDIQyrN579v7VgyO74HBaw/> > ------------------------> Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN> ------------------------> Support Our Spo!> nsoring 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> _________________________________________________________________> Earn cashback on your purchases with Live Search - the search that pays you back!> http://search.live.com/cashback/?&pkw=form=MIJAAF/publ=HMTGL/crea=earncashback> > ------------------------> 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 _________________________________________________________________ Need to know now? 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