I need to get straightened out on the roots of teh Weidner family. The way I hve it, George Adam Weidner came to Pennsylvania with some older children, two of whom were Tychicus and the brother who settled I think near Lobachsville. George Adam Weidner remarried to Dorothea Greiner, and one of their children was my Elizabeth. I had it that my George Adam Weidner was the proprietor of the tile plant. I soon learned that Tychicus was the father of Susan who married the Keim. That would make her the niece of my Elizabeth. Someone wrote me that I've got that mixed up; an Adam Weidner was father to Tychicus, the other guy who settled near Lobachsville, and George Adam the father of my Elizabeth. I see from the set of lists of whose children were whose made by someone else that she sent me, that nearly every Weidner family unit had a son named Tychicus. Could someone please send me or tell me where to find the correct version of teh first three generations of that family. Even more important, does anyone know what is the story of how the Weidners came to this country, or even what faith the first of them in this country belonged to? By the mid 18th century OF COURSE they were Lutherans and Reformed unless they were very extreme indeed, everyone was. All I've seen is speculation by a Dehart 5th cousin that the Weidners were New Born. This was a sect from a single German town, whose main theology was that they had been born again and could do no sin. They appear not to have been particularly religious. They were, however, fond of picking fights with surrounding townspeople and of disrupting church meetings by starting argumetns, and one guy drowned while attempting to prove he could walk on water. They also were extremely opposed to government in any form. My cousin understood them to hvae been the principal first settlers in the Oley region and to be principally responsible for the way that region stood off officials attemting to variously count and list them, and extract taxes from them, and for similar attitudes among the people of that region to this day. >From what I've been reading about the Keim's and Schneider's and Hoch's, that cannot have been true. In fact, I'venot seen anything at allabout the New Born on this list - though noone was overeager to volunteer the information that Welsh Baptists played a large role in the history of the region, either. I also keep getting the idea that from their beginnings with Adam the tilemaker, the Weidners were a little bit nuts - but hardly in so cheerfully feisty a sense of the word. Adam Weidner the tilemaker who was going to do noone wanted to know what to whoever aided the teenaged indentured servants who continually ran away from him, I don't know in what part because their families were far away, had a feudal and rather grim emotionality. He reminds me of my father, not some happy go lucky New Borner. Yours, Dora __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get Yahoo! Mail � Free email you can access from anywhere! http://mail.yahoo.com/