Forward from KALER Mail List -- This should help someone! Thanks Norm, we need more of this kind of resource material. Is this the original by Sam. Kaler? He speaks of a published one? Mary Ann Kaylor/Kaler Mail List owner At 11:08 AM 09/17/1999 -0400, you wrote: >Morning Mary, > >I am working on transcribing an old vanity book I just recently recieved >from my mother. It is titled "THE KALERS" and appears to have been written >by Samuel P. Kaler abt 1887. the Preface is handwritten and I will paste it >at the bottom. > >The story starts in the early 1700's in Switzerland with Johannes (actually >a bit about his dad Henri too) Kehler and moves forward from there. > >If you can think of anyone who is interested in about 17 pages of that kinda >thing let me know. > >Have a good one, >Norm > >Handwritten portion follows > >Preface, > >Some years ago, about the year 1875. my father's family moved from the Ohio >to Indiana I conceive the idea of snatching from rapidly approaching >oblivion, something to perpetuate the history of my ancestry. How well I >have succeeded the following pages will disclose. How hard I have labored, >almost constantly for 12 years no one but myself will ever know. But one >person has ever appreciated my labors and to him this volume is dedicated. >I have the original manuscript and I have no intention of ever doing more >with it than to add to it the occurring events and leave it, crude as it is, >to my children. I deem it is not uncharitable to say that relatives >generally have sought to throw obstacles in my way rather than to assist me. > Unknown as the story all appears it must be accepted as truth. I must >thank my beloved brother, Dr. Kaler of Joliet Illinois for kind assistants >though he had as head no heart and the work.. The league. My only apology >is that this volume has b! >een transcribed from my original manuscript, by one who has made many >mistakes in the copy, principally in punctuation, caused mainly by changes >that I verbally ordered as the work proceeded. > >/s/Samuel P. Kaler > >Columbia City, Indiana. >December 26, 1887. > > > >==== KALER Mailing List ==== >KAYLOR/KALER & variants GenConnect Cluster Boards - Submit your Query,Bible >records! >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/k/a/KAYLOR/queries >http://cgi.rootsweb.com/~genbbs/genbbs.cgi/surnames/k/a/KAYLOR/bible_records > Mary Ann Kaylor makaylor@npwt.net