Good Morning! Speaking of Moravian....what are the contemporary beliefs? My father's family was from Stokes and Forsythe, my mother's Rockingham, Caswell, and Guilford. I have driven through Germantown a few times. My sister lives in Reidsville and she called me yesterday to invite me to the Christmas celebration at the Moravian church in Stokes on the 19th. I am in grad school at a Christian University but have never studied Moravian. All my Mom's and Dad's folks were Presbyterian/Scots-Irish. Help the dummy here okay? Denise Wood > Did your ancestors start out in Bohemia, Moravia, Germany or England and > wind up in Pennsylvania and then Maryland or North Carolina? Please visit > Moravian Church Genealogy Links at http://www.enter.net/~smschlack You > might find your immigrant among the 400 that came over with the Moravians. > Have fun! > Susan Schlack > Bethlehem, PA > > I'd like to add my endorsement for Susan's excellent site. There are some > very good links on it to individual church pages, Pennsylvania information, > cemetery records, etc. > > One thing I'd like to add, however - having grown up as a member of the > Moravian Church, I had always assumed that my ancestors who ended up in the > Stokes/Forsyth Co. area *came from* Moravia. I was wrong! It turns out > nearly all of them came from either Alsace or Switzerland, were initially > Lutherans or German Reformed, and joined the Moravian church either shortly > before leaving Europe, or after their arrival in Pennsylvania. > > Susan's page includes a link to my cousin Faye Moran's home page, but I'll > put in another plug for it here: > > http://www.erols.com/fmoran/ > > We have lots of information on families in this area, not just the > Moravians, and are always happy to add more.