At 6/17/03 03:39 PM Tuesday, Kimberlee wrote: *********START OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT********* >I am an off shoot of Hans Briles & Johannes Breyhel up to James >Cannon Broyles. I do have my family tree basically complete. I >do have some info on the brothers and their families. The website >is very helpful and the Germanna Colonies website is wonderful >and full of our history. It tells of the ship ride over in 1717. Check >it out. Kimberlee Broyles-Thomasson **********END OF ORIGINAL MESSAGE TEXT*********** Hello again Cousin Kimberlee: I replied to you earlier, but just saw a reply to your post from Lisa, and wanted to add a couple of things. 1) "Hans" was not a BRILES; he was always entered into official records as a BROYLES. The only member of our tree who picked up the name BRILES, was Conrad, Hans' brother. And, "Hans" was actually "Hans Jacob", which was short for "Johann Jacob", I'm sure. (Most of Conrad's descendants kept the BRILES name, although some of them DID revert to the original English interpretation of BROYLES, and some even became known as BRYLES, especially those that ended up in California.) 2) I am intrigued by your line from James Cannon BROYLES!!!!! I maintain a very large database of our ancestors, and have nothing on him!!!!! Would it be possible for you to send me what you have on your branch? (Preferably in GEDCOM format; however, I would take it any way I could get it.) 3) Thank you for the kudos about the Germanna Colonies web site. In addition to managing this BROYLES Mailing List, I am also the webmaster for the web site you mentioned. Thanks for posting on the BROYLES Message Board at Rootsweb. Your post was relayed to this BROYLES Mailing List and I'm glad to see that the two different formats work so well together. Watch for announcements of the Tennessee Germanna Reunion, which is held in conjunction with the Washington Co., TN, BROYLES Reunion in September. Yer Cuz, SgtGeorge George W. Durman BROYLES Mailing List Manager BROYLES Message Board Manager Germanna Colonies Family History Web Site Manager (All of the above hosted by Rootsweb.)