Dear Joan, If you will send me your mailing address I will send you a Harbin paper. I don't know that I have your address anymore. My printer is down so I can mail. It may have a Caswell that you do not have. Betty G. oretical question and since you folks are so good at sharing opinions, I would like to throw it out to everyone because I am at a loss on how to handle it. > > The HARBIN lines mostly go back to southern MD and were originally from > Dorset and Somerset, England. However, there were families about the same > time in Berks County, PA, whose name was originally HERBEIN or HARBEIN or > HERBINE or HARBINE., and they hailed from Germany & pretty much stayed > right in Berks, or went to OH via Washington Co., MD. They varied their > spellings at will and in some cases the final "e" of the HARBINE got > dropped which made it HARBIN, so I of necessity have had to pursue them to > some extent. Generally, if I see a HARBIN with ancestors from PA, I drop > them. > > I am wondering how I should enter these German guys in my program though > so that they will all appear under one name regardless of how they are in > censuses, etc. I've entered many of them with the original spelling > (e.g. HERBEIN) but a note in one of the elective fields that the name > appears in records as (e.g. HARBINE), but that almost seems to be doing it > backwards to me. But if I enter them the way I find them in records (with > a note of their true origins in an elective field) , I am going to wind up > with several alpha listings instead of one grouping. > > Will someone please clear my confused thinking once and for all? Thank > you. > > Joan Marie > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ROWANROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message

I think you have me mixed up. I don't research Harbin's or Caswell's. I research Herman's from Rowan county, but that's about it from there. Most of my family was Catawba or Caldwell. r/Jon ----- Original Message ----- From: "Betty H. Garbers" <bhgarbers@cox.net> To: <rowanroots@rootsweb.com> Sent: Sunday, January 28, 2001 11:48 PM Subject: Re: [ROWANROOTS] WHAT WOULD YOU DO? > Dear Joan, > > If you will send me your mailing address I will send you a Harbin paper. > I > don't know that I have your address anymore. My printer is down so I can > mail. It may have a Caswell that you do not have. > > Betty G. > > > > > > > > > > > > oretical question and since you folks are so good at sharing opinions, I > would like to throw it out to everyone because I am at a loss on how to > handle it. >> >> The HARBIN lines mostly go back to southern MD and were originally from >> Dorset and Somerset, England. However, there were families about the >> same >> time in Berks County, PA, whose name was originally HERBEIN or HARBEIN >> or >> HERBINE or HARBINE., and they hailed from Germany & pretty much stayed >> right in Berks, or went to OH via Washington Co., MD. They varied their >> spellings at will and in some cases the final "e" of the HARBINE got >> dropped which made it HARBIN, so I of necessity have had to pursue them >> to >> some extent. Generally, if I see a HARBIN with ancestors from PA, I drop >> them. >> >> I am wondering how I should enter these German guys in my program though >> so that they will all appear under one name regardless of how they are in >> censuses, etc. I've entered many of them with the original spelling >> (e.g. HERBEIN) but a note in one of the elective fields that the name >> appears in records as (e.g. HARBINE), but that almost seems to be doing >> it >> backwards to me. But if I enter them the way I find them in records >> (with >> a note of their true origins in an elective field) , I am going to wind >> up >> with several alpha listings instead of one grouping. >> >> Will someone please clear my confused thinking once and for all? Thank >> you. >> >> Joan Marie >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> ROWANROOTS-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 > ROWANROOTS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message