Rick Where in the Midwest do you live? I live in MO. By the way this is the best group I have ever been part of and thanks for the welcome. Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: "Richard Berkheiser" <reberkheiser@earthlink.net> To: <PADUTCH-LIFE@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 3:40 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] Welcome to List Members! > Hi everyone! > > My goodness! I was going through the recent subscriptions to this list > and counted close to 20 in one day! Welcome to each one of you to the > Virtual Kitchen of the PADUTCH-LIFE Family! As we say in the Midwest, > "If you be so inclined, set yourself down for a spell and feel free to > spin a yarn or two." If you would like to just read what we post then > that's OK, too. > > This place will get wild and crazy sometimes so feel free to join in where > a topic interests you. Most of us here claim a PA Dutch heritage so we > often discuss our past as well as our present lives on this list. > > We have a website that goes along with this list so feel free to visit > that at the link below. > > http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.com/~padutchlife/ > > Thank you for choosing our group! :-) > > Rick B > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Hi again everyone! For those of you that are into star gazing, there's plenty to see in the night sky this month. Towards the south, the Planet Jupiter dominates near Scorpius, and in a decent pair of binoculars you can even make out one of Jupiter's moons. Last night around 10:40 PM, the Red Spot made its transit. It was viewable through a small telescope. The "heart" of Scorpius shines bright red as Antares twinkles away. August is also the best month to see meteor showers. Most notably the Perseids Meteor Shower. While looking up, don't forget to look for St. Lawrence's Tears. Lots to see up there! Rick B

Thanks for a great story. I loved it UNCONDITIONALLY. Poor Morris, I can almost see the "wha' hoppen" look on his face. Lilliput always looks around to make sure she has enough room to roll. And I can always tell when she's going to do one. She quickens her pace; takes short steps; makes a half turn; looks up; and down she goes. What a thrill it must have been to see Morris after nine months. And all those others. Full house is right. Great story! Richard ----- Original Message ----- From: "Lynn Vondran" <lynnvondran@att.net> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 10:59 PM Subject: [PD-LIFE] !Re: A Lifeful of Pets > Hi Richard and All, > Our two cats have a mirror under the one organ in our front > hallway/library area. I put it there to get it out of the way, and when I > noticed they like to lay there, next to the mirror, I put a small rug > there, for them to lay on. > Our Morris does the same thing, kneading, then laying down all content. > Whiskers just needs to be near when SHE wants to be paid attention to. > Morris did that dropping and rolling onto his back, for his snacks when he > was a stray. One time he was at the edge of the porch, and rolled right > off into the bushes. He immediately jumped back up onto the porch again, > with a look of "what just happened!!!!!" > When he disappeared for 9 months, right after we got his shots, before we > were going to bring him into the house, I was so heartbroken!!!! I went > to the shelters, to see if anyone turned him in. I looked all over > Columbia, hoping to get a glimps of him, and nothing. In fact, he just > disappeared like that, after living outside in the shelter I built for him > at the window, where he just sat looking in at me working at my computer. > I saw him on one of the coldest nights of the whole year, and said to > Mike, we HAVE to bring him in. After his 9 month disappearing act, I was > taking the trash out, on one of the coldest nights of the next year, and I > saw something drop and roll in front of me, and I almost stepped on > whatever it was. It was so dark, it took a while for my eyes to adjust_IT > WAS MORRIS!!!!!!!!! I dropped the trash, and picked him up. I came into > the house and told Mike to take him upstairs and give him a GOOD bath, he > wasn't going out anymore!!!! He was our in! > side cat!! Right before that we had taken in Whiskers, and her 5 kittens, > and Lindsey, that very night, brought home Lexus from Harrisburg. Talk > about a full house of pets!!! We had 12 gold fish, one as big as a carp, a > dwarf bunny, two cats, a dog, and I can't even remember all the other pets > at that time, I would have to look for a note somewhere that names them > all. > Our pets always last a long, long time_and I'm so glad, because when one > dies, it's like losing a family member for sure. They surely do capture > your heart, and you capture their hearts. They love UNCONDITIONALLY. > I remember our Stubby, who we rescued from the Humane League after someone > took him from our neighborhood, and placed him there. There were 5 people > who cared for him, feeding him, making sure he was inside on cold nights. > He was a stray but not a stray. The person who would have taken him in, > after he wound up at the Humane League, was on her way to New York, and > couldn't go get him. I went to get him for her, but when I signed the > papers, it said that you weren't allowed to give the animal to anyone, > that the animal was your responsibility, and was to be kept in your house. > So, STUBBY became our first of the strays we took in to give a good home > to. > Stubby talked, too. He said "I love you" "Mom" "No" (when you gave him a > bath), "Where are you?" (if you went into the bathroom and closed the > door). I told you of the story of the high school student who brought his > friend down here to hear Stubby talk. He had heard him talk many times, > because he use to come down here to watch me make up routines for the > girls in the band front. Wouldn't you know it, when he brought his friend > down to hear Stubby, he would say a word the whole time. The guys even > ate dinner with us, waiting on Stubby to say something. When they left, > Stubby started talking up a storm. > Well, have to get some rest. Good night all. > Lynn > > > Richard Emlin Reed wrote: > I believe that animals are capable of loving. We love them and they feel > so > wanted and safe that there must be some kind of reciprocal emotion. > Whatever > it may be, when I am lying on the sofa watching tv, Lilliput jumps up and > kneads me for half a minute or so (cats need to knead, }:-)), then nestles > down beside me, sometimes for hours. And,at bedtime, she jumps up on the > bed > every night, and snuggles down, sometimes beside me, sometimes beside my > wife. She likes to be with us; isn't that what love is! Another thing - > when > she wants our attention, she will come up to us, look up, tuck her > shoulder > under toward the floor, and drop on her side. We call it her shoulder > roll. > Cute? You bet! A pyschologist might call it an act of submission; we call > it > love. > I forgot to mention that when Angel jumped up on the bureau for her > nightly > mirror routine, she always sat on my wife's jewlry box. I can see her > still, > staring intently into that mirror. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Yeahhhhh! Using my golf spikes for spurs. Richard Emlin ----- Original Message ----- From: "Tracy" <better_than_good@yahoo.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 11:19 PM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Animals in our backyards/alligator > > --- Richard Emlin wrote: > >> One or two more steps would have put me on top of the creature; and I > would have been, at the very least, in the water astride him, which, > you will agree, is a lot better than being inside him. > ****************** > > Richard, > > Now you will be the 'Gator Wrangler! I could just see you sitting on > the gator's back like a bull rider. lol > > tracy > > > > ____________________________________________________________________________________ > Need a vacation? Get great deals > to amazing places on Yahoo! Travel. > http://travel.yahoo.com/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

Just like she DID :o) Lynn Connie wrote: Think we all need to write books.? They all would be best sellers with us buying each others stories.? Just like Vee would do.

Sure!!! I didn't know if you left or not, and didn't know if you would get the message right away :o) Lynn Connie wrote: Thanks, Lynn.? You beat me to it.? Connie Lynn wrote: Nope, it's that great Eagle Scout, Jimmy :o) Lynn Anna asked: Is it Matthew who is off to college? Smiles,

I knew you would read my mind, Cuz!!! LOL!!!!!! And, here I thought...... :o) Lynn Rick wrote: Adam and Eve?!?! Now that IS going back a ways. LOL Pat wrote: Adam & Eve came to Bedford County from Adams County,PA

I read that the same way the first time!? I did not make the connection with their first names until this message.? That was good for a smile! --Debra -----Original Message----- From: Richard Berkheiser <reberkheiser@earthlink.net> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 4:20 pm Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Rummel Family Adam & Eve came to Bedford County from Adams County,PA -------------------- Adam and Eve?!?! Now that IS going back a ways. LOL Rick B ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Hi everyone! My goodness! I was going through the recent subscriptions to this list and counted close to 20 in one day! Welcome to each one of you to the Virtual Kitchen of the PADUTCH-LIFE Family! As we say in the Midwest, "If you be so inclined, set yourself down for a spell and feel free to spin a yarn or two." If you would like to just read what we post then that's OK, too. This place will get wild and crazy sometimes so feel free to join in where a topic interests you. Most of us here claim a PA Dutch heritage so we often discuss our past as well as our present lives on this list. We have a website that goes along with this list so feel free to visit that at the link below. http://freepages.nostalgia.rootsweb.com/~padutchlife/ Thank you for choosing our group! :-) Rick B

Adam & Eve came to Bedford County from Adams County,PA -------------------- Adam and Eve?!?! Now that IS going back a ways. LOL Rick B

* P.S. Fort Wayne, Indiana, has a Lincoln museum which is a must-see for history buffs. Lincoln Life Ins. was begun in the late 1800s. They contacted Robert Lincoln asking permission to use his father's likeness and name for their company and he permitted the usage. -------------------- I highly recommend a trip to this museum in Ft. Wayne, IN. My parents and I were there a couple of years ago and we were very impressed with the collection. The displays are as good, if not better than some at the Lincoln Library and Museum in Springfield, IL. Rick B

Loved your story of the animals.? Think we all need to write books.? They all would be best sellers with us buying each others stories.? Just like Vee would do. Connie -----Original Message----- From: marysaerie <marysaerie@stny.rr.com> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 1:02 pm Subject: [PD-LIFE] You make me chuckle Hello, List. I'd like to say "Welcome" to all the new list members, and "Welcome Back" to Richard Emlin. I have missed your lessons and your wit. I've been lurking a lot over the last three months and only piping up every now and then as I have been preparing to retire from the job I've had for over 38 years. I have cleaned out, hoed out, and provided training to my temporary replacement. I am on vacation for three weeks, then officially retire on September 1st. It will be the best birthday present I have ever given myself. More on that later if I have time. Any way. I have been reading the 'pet' communiques and the 'hunting/eating' communiques. They have provided a source of much entertainment for me and have made me chuckle a lot. I can tell that a lot of you are thinking, "EEEYOUUUUU" "YUCK" about the hunting/cleaning/eating part, and I can't help but chuckle to myself. I was raised on a farm which, by todays standards, would be called a 'gentleman's farm'. It was 60 acres large. We had cows, chickens, cats, dogs, and rabbits. We raised a bull every other year for our freezer, and 2 pigs in the in-between years. For some reason, my Dad always named the bull calves Snodgrass. I learned how to call the cows in from the fields and the pigs to slop. I learned how to mix manna with water as a replacement/supplement for our calves, how to grain the chickens, protect myself from the spurs of the rooster, and collect the eggs. For my 5th birthday, my father handed me a tiny lantern (which I still have) which was a perfect replica of his, and started me in the barn doing small things. At age 7, he taught me to drive our N8 Ford in the fields so I could help him with the haying. We planted 3 huge gardens every year and my Mother spent all summer canning for the winter. She taught me how to churn butter (I still have the churns, butter bowl and paddle), then work it to get all the water out of it. We also made our own sauerkraut (I still have the crock and the shredder). We made our own apple cider, too. The only time we had homemade icecream was in the winter when the icicles would form on the gutters. My father hunted deer, grouse, squirrel, pheasant, turkey, rabbit, and anything else worthy enough of spending a shell on. We had bobwhite, too, but they were too small a bird to warrant wasting money and time. When I turned 8, I was given the job of plucking the chickens my Mother had ordered up for dinner. Dad would lop off their heads, let them run around like the headless horseman until they dropped, then bring them in the house for Mom to scald. After that, it was my job to pluck them and singe them. I am surprised that I eat so much chicken, but I could eat it every day in one form or another. When I was 10, my Dad gave me the N8 for my own and he bought another tractor so we had two to use in the fields. When I was 13, I started taking voice lessons (I had 5 years of piano and 1 year of clarinet before that), and at 15 I took on the job of nanny for for 3 small boys who lived a mile up the road. >From the start of school until it was over in June, I sat every night after school and on Saturday. Once school was out, I worked six full days a week, except when their family took vacation. The pay was good for the times: $25 a week during school and $75 a week during summer. It allowed me to pay for my music lessons, my music, my clothes, my books, my lunches, and whatever else a teenage girl needed at the time. I had pets as I grew up, but they were NEVER allowed in the house. I always had a dog; and, of course we had barn cats to keep the mice and snakes out of the hay and the graineries. I always had a favorite cat or two, and my Dad bought me a Welsh pony named Midnight when I turned 13. He actually bought me a young thoroughbred colt to begin with, but my Mother made Dad take him back. My Mother, God bless her, did NOT like animals too well. But my Dad always wanted a farm, so farm life it was. She was good to go as long as the animals were on one side of a fence and she was on the other. The animals always seemed to like her and always would come up to her, especially the cows. She would reach over the top wire of the fence and with two fingers gingerly scratch them on the head or nose, then quickly walk away. It wasn't until many years later that I got my first indoor animal. He was a gorgeous sable purebred collie named Sam with a nose a mile long that my husband rescued and brought home to me. He was very skittish and meek because he had been beaten severely. Sam and I became great friends and he learned to trust us. He loved children inparticularly. The next pet I adopted was named Whiskey--a long-haired, orange-colored, tiger kitten that was left behind in my cousin's apartment building. Doris had rescued it, but was allergic, so I took him. He was small enough to hold in the palms of my hands, so he was probably about 8 weeks old. He and Sam became great friends. Whiskey would climb up my curtains and hide behind them in the window just waiting for Sam to walk underneath. Whiskey would pounce on Sam and ride him around the living room like a drunken cowboy until he fell off. Sadly, the neighborhood children let Sam out of our fenced in yard and we never saw him again. When my husband and I divorced, Whiskey went to live with my Aunt because I could not have animals in my new apartment. I now have two cats, Missy Lou, the Princess in Training of the household (I am still the Queen); and Bear, the big ol' boob. Additionally, my husband brought Dancer, a black lab/dalmatian mix, with him last year when we got married. They are all rescues. Missy is an 11 pound domestic long-haired tortoiseshell who loves to play fetch, and has to know everything that is going on. Bear is a 16 pound black Persian who is the king of all he surveys, likes to bully Missy, and is just very laid back. He also a great cuddler. Dancer looks mostly like a black lab except she has a white bib and 4 white socks, all with black polka dots. She likes to play with both of the cats, but she is rough, so they don't play too long. She is also a great watch dog. All of them love to be brushed and combed. I'm now working with Missy to get her to let me clean her teeth. She just had her teeth cleaned by the vet and had three teeth pulled. I didn't know that, like we humans, they can get periodontal and gum disease. When I got Missy, she was an 'only child'. She got to the point where she bugged me so much that I decided I needed to get her a pet, hence Bear. I used to tell Missy that if she didn't straighten out I was going to change her name to Al Po and feed her to the dogs. When Bear would mis-behave, I threatened to change his name to Ken L. Ration. Of course, they never paid me any mind. The only time they disappear from sight is when I get upset enough to raise my voice, which isn't often. When I do, though, all you see are two streaks, hear the scuttering of their claws across the kitchen floor as they try to make a turn for the cellar door in full flight, and the thud of the folding door as they come up a little short, followed by the pitter-patter of feet as they go down the cellar stairs and into ghost mode. When they re-emerge, they are like two kids. They quietly come up and peek around the corner to see if the coast is clear. I have to laugh at them. All the animals are a great source of entertainment and of comfort. They never hold a grudge, and they will always be there to love you and give you a 'hug' when you need it most. Mary ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Thanks, Lynn.? You beat me to it.? Connie -----Original Message----- From: Lynn Vondran <lynnvondran@att.net> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:55 am Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Bowser name Nope, it's that great Eagle Scout, Jimmy :o) Lynn Anna asked: Is it Matthew who is off to college? Smiles, ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

No, his older brother, Jimmy.? Matt will be 12 this Nov.? I know, time flies. Connie -----Original Message----- From: Del Bristol <bristol@wcnet.org> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:09 am Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Bowser name Is it Matthew who is off to college? Smiles, Anna -----Original Message----- From: padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:padutch-life-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of twerppy@aol.com Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 9:48 AM To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Bowser name The genealogy information is with my daughter who is also on the list but not as free to check every day.? I will be seeing her in a few days.? Right now we are into getting her son ready and taking him to college, so am sure she is not checking the list much.? I know Phoebe was one of them who married a Josh Ingham.? Any help?? I am still in contact with all of those children as we all went to HS together.? About my age.? Connie -----Original Message----- From: lllorensen@sbcglobal.net To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:36 pm Subject: [PD-LIFE] Bowser name Connie What are some of your Bowser names maybe we have a connection Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: <twerppy@aol.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:23 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] The Stories of Our Lives > WE have Bowser in our line also.? Connie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lllorensen@sbcglobal.net > To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com > Sent: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 7:40 pm > Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] The Stories of Our Lives > > > > thanks Jerilyn > When I see names in my tree I just check to see If I connect.. > My names are Short, Eales, Black, McMahon, Bowser, James Devlin, Deemer > many > many more > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <thos@comcast.net> > To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 2:34 PM > Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] The Stories of Our Lives > > >> No relation that I know of.Tom has family in Western Pa,but in Jefferson >> County near Sykesville and Worthsville.Our Pa .names >> are[mine]Beehler,Slyhoff/Slyoff,Shaffer,and Herron,Huffman,and Bispham. >> Tom's are :Fike,Hamilton,Shaffer,Smith ,and many more. >> Jerilyn >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

No sure, but think there was a Peg.? Connie -----Original Message----- From: lllorensen@sbcglobal.net To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 9:59 am Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Bowser name Connie I have one Ingham listed Peg married to Larry Black any connection? Barb ----- Original Message ----- From: <twerppy@aol.com> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, August 12, 2007 8:48 AM Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] Bowser name > The genealogy information is with my daughter who is also on the list but > not as free to check every day.? I will be seeing her in a few days.? > Right now we are into getting her son ready and taking him to college, so > am sure she is not checking the list much.? I know Phoebe was one of them > who married a Josh Ingham.? Any help?? I am still in contact with all of > those children as we all went to HS together.? About my age.? Connie > > > -----Original Message----- > From: lllorensen@sbcglobal.net > To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com > Sent: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 3:36 pm > Subject: [PD-LIFE] Bowser name > > > > Connie What are some of your Bowser names maybe we have a connection > Barb > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <twerppy@aol.com> > To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2007 9:23 AM > Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] The Stories of Our Lives > > >> WE have Bowser in our line also.? Connie >> >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: lllorensen@sbcglobal.net >> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com >> Sent: Fri, 10 Aug 2007 7:40 pm >> Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] The Stories of Our Lives >> >> >> >> thanks Jerilyn >> When I see names in my tree I just check to see If I connect.. >> My names are Short, Eales, Black, McMahon, Bowser, James Devlin, Deemer >> many >> many more >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: <thos@comcast.net> >> To: <padutch-life@rootsweb.com> >> Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 2:34 PM >> Subject: Re: [PD-LIFE] The Stories of Our Lives >> >> >>> No relation that I know of.Tom has family in Western Pa,but in Jefferson >>> County near Sykesville and Worthsville.Our Pa .names >>> are[mine]Beehler,Slyhoff/Slyoff,Shaffer,and Herron,Huffman,and Bispham. >>> Tom's are :Fike,Hamilton,Shaffer,Smith ,and many more. >>> Jerilyn >>> >>> >>> >>> ------------------------------- >>> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >>> PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >>> the >>> quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com >> with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the >> body >> of >> the message >> >> >> ________________________________________________________________________ >> AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free >> from AOL at AOL.com. >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body > of > the message > > > ________________________________________________________________________ > AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free > from AOL at AOL.com. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Put me down, Anna.? Connie Williams? 24 E. Tolna Road, Shrewsbury, PA? 17361 -----Original Message----- From: Del Bristol <bristol@wcnet.org> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 11:08 am Subject: [PD-LIFE] Abe Lincoln book I have begun reading an historical novel about Abe Lincoln. The author, Richard Slotkin, has written several non-fiction books of an historical nature, so I trust his research. This book is different in that it re-creates Lincoln's growing years rather than his political career and the Civil War era. "."Abe" draws deeply on historical scholarship, but it is not biography. Instead, it is a vivid, persuasive re-creation of the life as young Lincoln might have lived it, and of the people, scenes, and influences that helped produce the character and conscience of the man often called the greatest of all Americans." This book is 450 pages in length and I have only begun reading it, and three other books rest on my night stand that I have begun. Sometimes Sherlock Holmes beckons to me, at other times history is my interest.much like using the remote, huh? If you want to be next in line in our PAD Reading Club, let me know and I'll send this book to you. For those of you new to this list, we offer books to fellow members and send them without cost. When you have finished the book, ask who was next on the reading list and send it media rate (less expensive). Gosh, it is gorgeous outside today. I have to bathe the dogs, do some lawn work, begin the laundry.and read under the maple tree. Life is good. Smiles, Anna * P.S. Fort Wayne, Indiana, has a Lincoln museum which is a must-see for history buffs. Lincoln Life Ins. was begun in the late 1800s. They contacted Robert Lincoln asking permission to use his father's likeness and name for their company and he permitted the usage. They began assembling Lincoln memorabilia and later opened a museum in their corporate offices, if I recall correctly. The museum outgrew the facility so they constructed a building elsewhere in Fort Wayne. I have been to the corporate location and plan to go to the new site. Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, has Lincoln's chair and some other items from his assassination. Also, the Fort Wayne library is a genealogical site and one that recently reopened as a much enlarged facility. Check out their websites: <http://www.thelincolnmuseum.org/> www.thelincolnmuseum.org and www.acpl.lib.in.us/genealogy/index.html and www.hfmgv.org <http://www.hfmgv.org/> . * o o ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.

Hi everyone! I found this interesting item in my Inbox today that someone just sent me and thought I would pass it along to you. I have no idea where it originated, but it is so very true of this list. Enjoy! Rick B -------------------- We are the chosen. My feelings are in each family there is one who seems called to find the ancestors. To put flesh on their bones and make them live again, to tell the family story and to feel that somehow they know and approve. To me, doing genealogy is not a cold gathering of facts but, instead, breathing life into all who have gone before. We are the story tellers of the tribe. All tribes have one. We have been called, as it were, by our genes. Those who have gone before cry out to us: Tell our story. So,we do. In finding them, we somehow find ourselves. How many graves have I stood before now and cried? I have lost count. How many times have I told the ancestors you have a wonderful family you would be proud of us? How many times have I walked up to a grave and felt somehow there was love there for me? I cannot say. It goes beyond just documenting facts. It goes to who am I and why do I do the things I do. It goes to seeing a cemetery about to be lost forever to weeds and indifference and saying I can't let this happen. The bones here are bones of my bone and flesh of my flesh. It goes to doing something about it. It goes to pride in what our ancestors were able to accomplish. How they contributed to what we are today. It goes to respecting their hardships and losses, their never giving in or giving up, their resoluteness to go on and build a life for their family. It goes to deep pride that they fought to make and keep us a Nation. It goes to a deep and immense understanding that they were doing it for us. That we might be born who we are. That we might remember them. So we do. With love and caring and scribing each fact of their existence, because we are them and they are us. So, as a scribe called, I tell the story of my family. It is up to that one called in the next generation to answer the call and take their place in the long line of family storytellers. That, is why I do my family genealogy, and that is what calls those young and old to step up and put flesh on the bones. (Unknown Author)

Richard Emlin Reed wrote: "I never did have the straight of the cousin _____ removed designation. I know that people with a common grandparent are first cousins; those with a common great grandparent are second cousins; and so on. So, since John and Maria are my 2gps and your 3gps; doesn't that make us 2.5 cousins? }:-)" LOL 2.5 cousins, you are a naughty one! I confess, I use a quick genealogy computer widget to figure degrees of cousinage quickly. Cousin Calc.... http://www.iroots.net/tools/cusncalc/ ...I have the downloaded web-based cousin calculator which is an on demand popup tool. That webpage I referenced also has a regular old table you can consult if you want to figure cousinage the old fashioned way LOL instead of using the easy cheat web tool. When the word "removed" is used to describe a relationship, it indicates that the two people are from different generations. The words "once removed" mean that there is a difference of one generation. For example, your father's first cousin is your first cousin, once removed. This is because your father's first cousin is one generation younger than your grandparents and you are two generations younger than your grandparents. This one-generation difference equals "once removed." The one-generation difference has nothing to do with age, but rather with descendance from the same person. Twice removed means that there is a two-generation difference. You are two generations younger than a first cousin of your grandmother, so you and your grandmother's first cousin are first cousins, twice removed. So Herr Richard, since our common ancestor is my 3x gr-grandparents (your 2x gr-grandparents), we are 3rd cousins, once removed. You and my father would be straight out 3rd cousins since you share(d) the same 2x gr-grandparents. When I'm able to get out and can convince someone to drive me to Mt. Aetna, I'll make a point of finding those graves and taking photos of the stones. I did things the backwards way. When I was young and healthy, I never took photos of the stones when I'd visit the cemetery. I started actively researching my genealogy once it became more difficult for me to be out on solitary adventures. So of couse now I could kick myself for not taking the photos back in the day. Would you like to know what made me feel OLD? (you can laugh, I'm turning 49 on the 20th) One day I spent the afternoon at the Berks Historical Society Library looking through the microfilm of Mt. Aetna St John's records in their archives. I suddenly came across my name (I was baptized at St. John's). I came home that day, called my mother and told her that I was so old that I appear in the Historical Society's Archives. Mom (at 75yo) had a good laugh at that. Karen from Berks Cawhnty

Hello, List. I'd like to say "Welcome" to all the new list members, and "Welcome Back" to Richard Emlin. I have missed your lessons and your wit. I've been lurking a lot over the last three months and only piping up every now and then as I have been preparing to retire from the job I've had for over 38 years. I have cleaned out, hoed out, and provided training to my temporary replacement. I am on vacation for three weeks, then officially retire on September 1st. It will be the best birthday present I have ever given myself. More on that later if I have time. Any way. I have been reading the 'pet' communiques and the 'hunting/eating' communiques. They have provided a source of much entertainment for me and have made me chuckle a lot. I can tell that a lot of you are thinking, "EEEYOUUUUU" "YUCK" about the hunting/cleaning/eating part, and I can't help but chuckle to myself. I was raised on a farm which, by todays standards, would be called a 'gentleman's farm'. It was 60 acres large. We had cows, chickens, cats, dogs, and rabbits. We raised a bull every other year for our freezer, and 2 pigs in the in-between years. For some reason, my Dad always named the bull calves Snodgrass. I learned how to call the cows in from the fields and the pigs to slop. I learned how to mix manna with water as a replacement/supplement for our calves, how to grain the chickens, protect myself from the spurs of the rooster, and collect the eggs. For my 5th birthday, my father handed me a tiny lantern (which I still have) which was a perfect replica of his, and started me in the barn doing small things. At age 7, he taught me to drive our N8 Ford in the fields so I could help him with the haying. We planted 3 huge gardens every year and my Mother spent all summer canning for the winter. She taught me how to churn butter (I still have the churns, butter bowl and paddle), then work it to get all the water out of it. We also made our own sauerkraut (I still have the crock and the shredder). We made our own apple cider, too. The only time we had homemade icecream was in the winter when the icicles would form on the gutters. My father hunted deer, grouse, squirrel, pheasant, turkey, rabbit, and anything else worthy enough of spending a shell on. We had bobwhite, too, but they were too small a bird to warrant wasting money and time. When I turned 8, I was given the job of plucking the chickens my Mother had ordered up for dinner. Dad would lop off their heads, let them run around like the headless horseman until they dropped, then bring them in the house for Mom to scald. After that, it was my job to pluck them and singe them. I am surprised that I eat so much chicken, but I could eat it every day in one form or another. When I was 10, my Dad gave me the N8 for my own and he bought another tractor so we had two to use in the fields. When I was 13, I started taking voice lessons (I had 5 years of piano and 1 year of clarinet before that), and at 15 I took on the job of nanny for for 3 small boys who lived a mile up the road. From the start of school until it was over in June, I sat every night after school and on Saturday. Once school was out, I worked six full days a week, except when their family took vacation. The pay was good for the times: $25 a week during school and $75 a week during summer. It allowed me to pay for my music lessons, my music, my clothes, my books, my lunches, and whatever else a teenage girl needed at the time. I had pets as I grew up, but they were NEVER allowed in the house. I always had a dog; and, of course we had barn cats to keep the mice and snakes out of the hay and the graineries. I always had a favorite cat or two, and my Dad bought me a Welsh pony named Midnight when I turned 13. He actually bought me a young thoroughbred colt to begin with, but my Mother made Dad take him back. My Mother, God bless her, did NOT like animals too well. But my Dad always wanted a farm, so farm life it was. She was good to go as long as the animals were on one side of a fence and she was on the other. The animals always seemed to like her and always would come up to her, especially the cows. She would reach over the top wire of the fence and with two fingers gingerly scratch them on the head or nose, then quickly walk away. It wasn't until many years later that I got my first indoor animal. He was a gorgeous sable purebred collie named Sam with a nose a mile long that my husband rescued and brought home to me. He was very skittish and meek because he had been beaten severely. Sam and I became great friends and he learned to trust us. He loved children inparticularly. The next pet I adopted was named Whiskey--a long-haired, orange-colored, tiger kitten that was left behind in my cousin's apartment building. Doris had rescued it, but was allergic, so I took him. He was small enough to hold in the palms of my hands, so he was probably about 8 weeks old. He and Sam became great friends. Whiskey would climb up my curtains and hide behind them in the window just waiting for Sam to walk underneath. Whiskey would pounce on Sam and ride him around the living room like a drunken cowboy until he fell off. Sadly, the neighborhood children let Sam out of our fenced in yard and we never saw him again. When my husband and I divorced, Whiskey went to live with my Aunt because I could not have animals in my new apartment. I now have two cats, Missy Lou, the Princess in Training of the household (I am still the Queen); and Bear, the big ol' boob. Additionally, my husband brought Dancer, a black lab/dalmatian mix, with him last year when we got married. They are all rescues. Missy is an 11 pound domestic long-haired tortoiseshell who loves to play fetch, and has to know everything that is going on. Bear is a 16 pound black Persian who is the king of all he surveys, likes to bully Missy, and is just very laid back. He also a great cuddler. Dancer looks mostly like a black lab except she has a white bib and 4 white socks, all with black polka dots. She likes to play with both of the cats, but she is rough, so they don't play too long. She is also a great watch dog. All of them love to be brushed and combed. I'm now working with Missy to get her to let me clean her teeth. She just had her teeth cleaned by the vet and had three teeth pulled. I didn't know that, like we humans, they can get periodontal and gum disease. When I got Missy, she was an 'only child'. She got to the point where she bugged me so much that I decided I needed to get her a pet, hence Bear. I used to tell Missy that if she didn't straighten out I was going to change her name to Al Po and feed her to the dogs. When Bear would mis-behave, I threatened to change his name to Ken L. Ration. Of course, they never paid me any mind. The only time they disappear from sight is when I get upset enough to raise my voice, which isn't often. When I do, though, all you see are two streaks, hear the scuttering of their claws across the kitchen floor as they try to make a turn for the cellar door in full flight, and the thud of the folding door as they come up a little short, followed by the pitter-patter of feet as they go down the cellar stairs and into ghost mode. When they re-emerge, they are like two kids. They quietly come up and peek around the corner to see if the coast is clear. I have to laugh at them. All the animals are a great source of entertainment and of comfort. They never hold a grudge, and they will always be there to love you and give you a 'hug' when you need it most. Mary

Unfortunately, that is further back than I am on my Rummel line, but based on the locations you list, it looks like we are from different families.? As far as I know, my line does not connect with the Rummels of Somerset County.? Maybe someday I'll find out differently--I've been at a brick wall with this family for a very long time. --Debra -----Original Message----- From: P Dyer <pdyer53@yahoo.com> To: padutch-life@rootsweb.com Sent: Sun, 12 Aug 2007 10:21 am Subject: [PD-LIFE] Rummel Family Adam Miller b.1768 d.1833 Eve Remmel b. 1765 d. 1867 yes 102 yrs old Both burried Schellsburg, PA Hannah Oaks b.1858 d.1933 John Rummel b. 1853 d. 1933 Both burried Mt. Zion Luth. Cemetery, Windber, PA Adam & Eve lived Helixville, Napier Twp. Bedford County, PA Hannah & John lived Rummell,Somerset County PA John was the 1st Postmaster Pat ____________________________________________________________________________________Ready for the edge of your seat? Check out tonight's top picks on Yahoo! TV. http://tv.yahoo.com/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to PADUTCH-LIFE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.