One of the more interesting things about the German George thing is that Mayme Hamrick, who wrote the threshhold book on West Virginia Hamricks in 1938, knew about Hans Jerg and she simply footnoted it. Mayme was an attorney in the U.S. Justice Department and so should have been fairly adroit at scrutinizing records, even if they were less accessible. On the other hand, she was not complete with her report of Benjamin Hamrick, the patriarch of many of the West Virginia families. dhamrick@neo.rr.com Dan Hamrick 402 23rd Street NW Canton OH 44709 Phone and fax: 330-454-2376 ---------- >From: David Hamrick <hamrick4@altavista.com> >To: HAMRICK-L@rootsweb.com >Subject: [HAMRICK-L] Hans George - one more question >Date: Sun, Oct 31, 1999, 4:00 PM > >Hello all, I've been away for a while and thus read last month's S.C. >Jones/Hans George debate in one sitting yesterday; hope you don't mind this >question. Does anyone know if the "German George" theory came from Jones >himself, or from the Hamricks he interviewed? If Jones discovered "Hans >Jerg Hammerich" in the archives, I can easily see him shouting "Eureka!" >and erroneously assuming he had found the missing link. But if "German >George" came from family tradition, how did an unrelated early 18th-century >German refugee get into the oral tradition of an Irish family, with at >least a few key facts intact? > >Yours for time travel research, > > >______________________________________________________________ >Open your mind. Close your wallet >Free Internet Access from AltaVista. http://www.altavista.com >