I got the same message and went to the lowest option, which was "Home." That took me to a page titled "Books" (Wayne's offerings), then I found a link to the blog below that. Sharon Mills ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth Hoese" <ruthjh@gmail.com> To: SpiWebb@aol.com, brethren@rootsweb.com Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 12:27:43 PM Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Happy New Year to All and thank you to Wayne Webb for all his work. Wayne, When I clicked on your link I got a 404 page not found message so I did what I usually do in those cases and deleted part of the url. In this case it left me with this: http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog which loaded immediately. I then clicked on the recently added link that is to the right and got the first of the blog posts. I may be the only one who had to do this, but if others are having trouble getting the site, try it. Ruth On 1/1/2014 7:58 AM, Wayne Webb wrote: > Morning Fellow List Members, > > > > Well, another year has come and gone in Brethren historical circles. To > start the new year I am going to start a blog of just what it is > accomplished on a weekly basis in furthering the research into that same > Brethren history. > > > > My friend Dr. Ron Pancner in a private e-mail to me a short while ago asked > am innocuous question. He asked, "What are your new tasks?", which were > somewhat mirrored in sentiment by Roberta J. Estes. To be honest I had not > a clue on how to respond as daily I may work on updating the knowledge base > of the various ministers and congregations of the church and the next day, > or at the same time, be working on a book about the deed indexes of > Montgomery county, Ohio. Call me a Genealogical Bee, pollinating all the > historical flowers I come across. I may not get the whole field pollinated, > but I do my best to get as many as I can. This is often more than is > accomplished by a bevy of others. Much has been achieved in furthering the > known history of the church. > > > > Amongst many, many things attained in the past year is that I have been > working diligently with Mr. David Roepke, the archivist for both the Ashland > University Archives and the Brethren Church Archives. We have created a > working, though the contents await further development, web site > <http://ashland.brethrenarchives.com/> to better making their materials > available to the public. At the same time and as a transition of his > existing web site, I was able to move his domain <http://auarchives.com/> > to a new server company giving David better service and at a lower cost. We > are doing this as funding becomes available, and more often as not without > any at all. > > > > For instance, the other day while working on the extended family of Elder > Daniel Miller (1755-1822) of the Miami Valley of Ohio, I came across a > descendant of his, William Hess (1860-1940) by name, of whom not much was > known when recorded in The Brethren Encyclopedia (@1983). After working all > day on he and a selection of other ministers with the same last name, I had > updated a lot of information. Often what happens is that while working on > Person A I will come across information on Person B and C, and others, at > the same time. A long story short, at the end of the day I had updated > nearly a dozen ministers and elders of the church. > > > > So. . ., I thought I would start a blog of my weekly Brethren research > exploits. The thought is that by starting a blog, and adding to it little > notes daily, which will be released either weekly or bi-weekly others may > find some interest in those tasks. While it will not likely go into any > great detail it may offer others avenues of research for other's research > projects. > > > > If you wish to view the inaugural article of Research > <http://books.brethrenarchives.com/index.php/home/research-blog/89-research- > blog/4719-discussion-1> Blog please feel free to do so. It is set up so > that you can leave comments if you would like to do so. > > > > Cordially, > > A. Wayne Webb > > Historian: German Baptist Brethren Church > > Past Editor: Brethren Roots > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Books > <http://books.brethrenarchives.com> > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Ministers > <http://mincon.brethrenarchives.com/> & Congregations > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Almanacs, > <http://books1.brethrenarchives.com/> Annuals & Yearbooks > > Site developer: German Baptist Brethren Offerings > <http://offering.brethrenarchives.com/> > > In other words: Chief Bottle Washer and Cook > > > > > ------------------------ > Search the Archives at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/th/index/BRETHREN > ------------------------ > > > ------------------------------- > 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 ------------------------ ------------------------------- 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