Hi, all, I copied the paragraphs below from the BRETHREN rootsweb mail list. I thought it might of interest to some on our list. Faith Hutchings Emmert Bittinger shared the news of his forthcoming articles in the Mennonite Family History, and in doing so, mentioned Holman's Creek in Shenandoah County VA. Joseph Floyd Wine published "Life Along Holman's Creek, in 1982, and may be a valuable reference for Brethren and others from the Holman's Creek area. I don't recall its being mentioned on this list before. For example, Wine shows photographs of the following houses: Samuel Myers House(dating from 1760) Peter Gartner (probably) log house, in the last half of the 18th century Isaac Myers House Showalter House Harpine House Peter Myers House (birthplace of the author) Andrew Zirkle House (built about 1750) Michael Zirkle House (before 1756) According to the author, his book "is an outgrowth and enlargement of research began in 1976 when the author was requested by the Flat Rock Church of the Brethren -- in its Bicentennial Emphasis -- to address the subject 'The German Baptist Tunker Brethren On Holman's Creek' ". In this publication Wine goes further to discuss other religious communions and other families, with much of his research from "The Shenandoah Valley", a weekly publication from 1869-1924. Wine does not give detailed genealogies, but does mention a number of families that probably discussed on this list including (from the index), Baker, Baughman, Biller, Bollinger, Bower, Bowers, Bowman, Branner, Burkett, Coffman, Dellinger, Early, Flory, Foltz, Funk, Funkhouser, Garber, Gartner, Getz, Golladay, Harpine, Hendrix, Kieffer, Knupp, Long, Miller, Moore, Myers, Neff, Pence, Roush, Showalter, Whistler, Whitmire, Will, Williams, Wine, Wolfe, Zigler, Zirkle, and many, many others. Joseph Floyd Wine's Book, "Life Along Holman's Creek" may be a valuable reference for family historians seeking their families in that area of Shenandoah County, in the latter half of the 19th century and the first part of the 20th century. I trust that it might be available through interlibrary loan; I do not know of its present availability from bookstores, but Amazon.com lists it as out of print. Unfortunately, I am not able to respond for lookups, or I'd not be able to do anything else for a few weeks.