Just thought I would throw this out again, since we've had so many new users join us in the past few months. As far as we have been able to determine, ALL descendants of the original WILHEIT/WILHITE/WILHOIT immigrants have a BROYLES umpteenth-great-grandmother back there somewhere. So, if you are a WILHITE/WILHOIT or BROYLES/BRILES descendant (or have any of the other variant spellings), you are related to all other WILHITE/WILHOIT and BROYLES/BRILES descendants. Here's how it goes: Johanne Michael WILHEIT, who was born and died in Germany, had, among other children, a son Adam. Adam was one of the Germanna immigrants. Adam married Catherine BROYLES, the daughter of the immigrant Johannes BREYHEL (John BROYLES), and the sister of Hans Jacob BROYLES. The same Johanne Michael WILHEIT, who was born and died in Germany, had another son, Tobias. Tobias was also one of the Germanna immigrants. Tobias had a son, Conrad Reuben WILHITE/WILHEIT (Sr.), who married Elizabeth BROYLES. Elizabeth was the daughter of Hans Jacob BROYLES, the brother of the Catherine who married Conrad Reuben's uncle Adam. --------------------------------- 1-Johanne Michael WILHEIT m.Anna Maria HENGSTELER 2-Adam WILHITE m.Catherine BROYLES (daughter of Johannes BREYHEL) 2-Tobias WILHITE m.Catherine WALKE 3-Conrad Reuben WILHITE m.Elizabeth BROYLES (granddaughter of Johannes BREYHEL) --------------------------------- To date, we have found no WILHITE/WILHOIT descendants who are NOT descendants of either Adam or Conrad Reuben WILHITE/WILHEIT/WILHOIT. Note to John BLANKENBAKER: Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't all of you BLANKENBAKERs (by whatever spelling variant) also have a BROYLES grandmother back there somewhere? Is she in a generation where all BLANKENBAKERs are also related to ALL WILHITE/WILHOIT and BROYLES/BRILES descendants? Just wondering, but how many other descendants of the various Germanna Colony immigrants also have a BROYLES/BRILES or WILHITE/WILHOIT ancestor in their pedigree? I know that most of the East Tennessee YAGER/YEAGER/JAGER lines have BROYLES in their ancestry. How many more are there? This note didn't start out for me to say what is going to follow, but.....typing it, I just started to think about some things. How many of you Germanna descendants have MARTIN in your ancestry? How many have BROYLES/BRILES, WILHITE/WILHOIT, BLANKENBAKER, YEAGER/YAGER/JAGER, CRUM/KRIM, CLORE/KLAAR, FLESHMAN/FLEISCHMAN, etc., etc., in your ancestry? The reason I ask is that the Germanna Visitors Center is being named after a supposed Germanna immigrant named MARTIN. Don't you think that the Board of Governors for the Germanna Foundation could have chosen a better representative name for the Center? Heck, if I had my choice, the ONE immigrant that left more descendants than ANY other is Anna Barbara SCHÖNE! I vote for the "Anna Barbara SCHÖNE Visitors Center"! ('Course the argument is moot and the "Baudus MARTIN (or whatever his name was) Center" is a "done deal". So much for reality vs. MONEY and POLITICS!) SgtGeorge