Congratulations Wayne on your new blog. I will visit. Your URL was long and split over two lines so the link did not work without cutting and pasting. I shorten it here for others: http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr A suggestion that the link to your home page is much shorter and doesn't even need the index.html but I noticed there is no obvious link to the blog page off your dropdowns on your index page. You might add that to your index page and then the URL to your blog would not need to be so long. Good luck with your project. Ray Hoff ----- Original Message ----- From: "Wayne Webb" <SpiWebb@aol.com> To: brethren@rootsweb.com Cc: "Sandra Studebaker" <sastudebaker@att.net> Sent: Wednesday, January 1, 2014 8:58:46 AM Subject: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends 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

Morning Ray, Ain't web design a royal endeavor of trial and error. I cannot control how Rootsweb, since it takes a HTML or RTF formatted e-mail and turns it into plain text, the links come across. As to how you shortened it the URL, that is a mystery to me and I applaud your ability to do so. I noticed on Wikipedia that it can be accomplished by a service company. I ain't going to pay someone to do something, not having extra cash to be throwing it around. The rest of the Wiki page is Greek to me. <grin> As for accessing the blog via the menu system, the link when opened shows a breadcrumb just above the article itself, just below the logo. Interpreting that it means that the Research Blog is a child of the Home menu at the top. Hey, I never said I was a rocket scientist when it comes to this stuff. I'm more of a firecracker in a bucket witch doctor. And thank you. 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 _____ From: captainlaser@comcast.net [mailto:captainlaser@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2014 10:00 AM To: SpiWebb@aol.com; brethren@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [BRE] Happy New Year to my Brethren Friends Congratulations Wayne on your new blog. I will visit. Your URL was long and split over two lines so the link did not work without cutting and pasting. I shorten it here for others: http://bit.ly/1hUBOHr A suggestion that the link to your home page is much shorter and doesn't even need the index.html but I noticed there is no obvious link to the blog page off your dropdowns on your index page. You might add that to your index page and then the URL to your blog would not need to be so long. Good luck with your project. Ray Hoff