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/