Elizabeth Donnom is not our ancestor. The John Martin she was married to died in 1771. They did have a son named James, but he died in 1768, at 3 years of age. Beverly ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Gieger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, September 21, 2000 9:44 AM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] German Baptists/N orth America > The German Baptist Brethern(Dunkers/Tunkers) are now a part of the Church of > the Brethern, so I would suppose that our Martins may have been related to > those which Joan speaks of, albeit remotely... > > We need German Baptist Brethern documentation on Rev. John Martin who > married Elizabeth Donnom... > > ...and these Martin's might be the link between both the Northern (German) > line and the Southern (Swiss) line, since Elam Virgil Martin's book on > Emanuel Henry Martin says Rev. John's ancestor was Minnie Geiger and that > the gg-grandparents came from Ulster...together. > > > >From: [email protected] > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: Re: [GEIGER] German Baptists/N orth America > >Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2000 23:36:45 EDT > > > >In a message dated 9/14/00 11:07:32 PM Eastern Daylight Time, > >[email protected] writes: > > > > > Were there GEIGERS, GIGERS, KEGARS or MARTINS among the PA German > > > Baptists? Anyone out there - help! > > > >Margie- > > > >There were most definitely MARTINs and there WERE GEIGERs who were > >associated > >with the Brethren and who intermarried with them--but to my knowledge those > >GEIGERS were not related (at least closely) with your GEIGERs. > > > >Joan > > > > > >==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list send an e-mail to: > >[email protected] (mail mode) or [email protected] > >(digest mode) and put only one word--either SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the > >subject and the body of the message. > > > >============================== > >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/ > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > ==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > Visit the GEIGER mailing list archives: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/GEIGER-L/ > > ============================== > RootsWeb's guide to tracing family trees > http://www.rootsweb.com/~rwguide/ >