Margie: Here is the website of the German Baptist Brethren(Dunkers). They were also called Tunkers because they practiced immersion three times once in the name of the Father, once in the name of the Son, and once in the name of the Holy Spirit...They also rejected Infant Baptism as their predecessors, Anabaptists of Europe, did, and they practice foot washing. Most of these doctrines are also part of the Primitive Baptist Creed...But the Primitive (called Hard-shell in the South) usually kept very good church records, so we might find something in there...Armchair Researcher is a good one for Primitive Baptist Church records... The CoC, sometimes called Campbellites because of their founder, Alexander Campbell, also follows some of these doctrines... http://www.brethren.org/genbd/bhla/publishing.htm http://www.brethren.org/genbd/bhla/fobg.htm http://www.brethren.org/desc.htm >From: [email protected] >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [GEIGER] German Baptists/N orth America >Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2000 22:46:36 -0700 > >THE GERMAN BAPTISTS OF NORTH AMERICA An Outline of Their History by >Albert John Ramaker Professor in German Dept. Rochester Theological >Seminary; German Baptist Publishing Co; 1924. > >p. 9 In 1668 - (German) Mennonites immigrated to America. Settled near >Germantown, PA. >p. 10 18th century - Large numbers of (German) Moravians and a colony of >"Tunkers," sometimes called "German Baptists" settled in PA. >p. 10 Very few German ministers came with German immigrants. Religious >needs sadly neglected. >p. 11 "about the beginning of the nineteenth century, a number of new >religious bodies took their rise here, as for example, the United >Bretheren in Christ and the Evangelical Assoc., formerly called >"Albrights", in 1800, and the Church of God (Winebrennarians), in 1830. >The German Methodists began to found churches in 1835 and the German >Baptists in 1840." Direct quote from German Baptist theologian in a >small hardbound history book. > >Book traces spread of German Baptists over America but DOES NOT MENTION >them being in the South...no SC, GA, AL, FL, MS or TEXAS. Names GEIGER, >GIGGER, KEGAR or MARTIN not found. >1840 too late for John or James Martin as ministers of German Baptist >church. Both decesed. Just thought you'd like to know what the book >says. Oldest Baptist Churches in Bryan and surrounding counties were >formed @1790 (not German Baptist). Ramaker ignores Moravians who came >to GA in early 1700s and founded Irene, a school for Indians. I'll just >have to look at other Baptist Church histories. Note: The "T" in >Tunker may sound close to the English "d". No clue as to the meaning of >"Tunker." > >Were there GEIGERS, GIGERS, KEGARS or MARTINS among the PA German >Baptists? Anyone out there - help! >Margie > > >==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== >Check out our GEIGER homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~geiger/ > >============================== >Personalized Mailing Lists: never miss a connection again. >http://pml.rootsweb.com/ >Brought to you by 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.