Hi, all. I'm new to this board and to genealogy, but I have a question about the religion of my grandfather Carl Jesse Meyers. Before I get to the logo question I should maybe just give a little background. My grandfather's parents were Michael William Meyers (1857-1930) and Ella Wheeler (1865-1915). I know nothing about the Wheeler side of the family, but Michael was born in Somerset County, PA to Martin Meyers and Sally Witt. I haven't traced the Witt family back any farther, but Martin's parents were Michael Meyers and Maria Beeghley, both of Somerset County, PA. Many members of this family were ministers in the Church of the Brethren. My great grandfather left PA with his parents, and eventually ended up in Morrill, Kansas, where he married his first wife and where all his children were born. By 1910 he was living in Cedar Rapids, Iowa with four out his five children - my grandfather Carl being the youngest son (1889-1926). The rest of my information is family lore. My grandfather died a young man, and much of what I hear is third hand - stories my grandmother, Vera Bates Meyers, used to tell her children. Not necessarily reliable. The story is - yes, I will get to the logo question - that William Meyers left the church when he married Ella. ("She was a Quaker, or something like that.") When Carl and Vera married she did not join his church - the denomination of which no one remembers - and she took some of the kids with her each Sunday, and he took my mother and another daughter with him to his church. I have quizzed my mother about the church and she remembers very little. Carl died when she was seven, and from then on all the children went to church with their mother. So here's what my mother remembers: the church was two blocks away from their home in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, it was a very small church, and it had a window or wall decoration that looked like a cross with a boat on the bottom and a crown in the middle. (This memory is from an 89 year old woman looking back to a memory more than eighty years ago when she was a young child.) But my mind immediately flashed to the logo on the Brethren Genealogy site. The cross, the wave and the circle could easily look like my mother's description. And I have found a Brethren church in Cedar Rapids that dates back to the turn of the century (20th, that is). So finally my question would be: Was there a symbol used by the Brethren back in the 1920s that would be similar to the logo used today? I guess I'm hoping that my grandfather was a member of the Brethren Church. With all the history in his family with this church it would be sad if he lost it all. (Incidentally, his father Michael William had his burial services held in 1930 in the First Brethren Church in Los Angeles, CA. Story is that he rejoined the church when he married his second wife Elva I. - with no last name known by our family.) A very long question - I hope someone reads to the end and can shed some light. Thanks, Beverly **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. (http://autos.aol.com/used?ncid=aolaut00050000000007)