Cary, I agree with you. We need good solid documented research to add to our knowledge and to correct errors perpetuated over time for unknown reasons. Suzanne Collins Matson --- On Thu, 10/27/11, Cary Anderson <drcary@cox.net> wrote: > From: Cary Anderson <drcary@cox.net> > Subject: Re: [GERMANNA] Wal Mart and the Civil War > To: "Michael Oddenino" <oddlaw@pacbell.net>, germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com > Date: Thursday, October 27, 2011, 3:03 PM > > Thanks Michael for your astute insight. > Let's get on with finding and honoring the Germanana folks > who came. > > For example:  I still see almost nothing about the two > brother-in-laws, > Hoffman and Weber/Weaver who married Volck ladies.  > Their properties > adjoined. Hoffman's was much larger than Weaver's. > > Among their children there was little intermarriage, but by > the > grandchildren and especially great-grandchildren, Colony I > Hoffman and > Colony II Weber, had blended nicely in that part of Madison > County.  It is > hard not to scratch a known Germanna descendant and not > find Weber and/or > Hoffman blood flowing. Just like north and south blood once > one gets a bit > west. > > Cary > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the > subject and the body of the message >