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

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