Hi Brandy, What you have is a very common family tradition. There are stories in many families about brothers usually three, who came from Europe. Does it happen that way? Sometimes, much more often, a nuclear family (father, mother and children) emigrate along with other relatives, in-laws, and fellow church members and neighbors. Some of the passenger lists show Statler/Stettler/Stadler men coming as single men. In my Statler research I have found "the brother" story associated with the group of Statlers from Loudoun County, VA. In actuality the father of the brothers was there. The father was Abraham, sons John, Jacob and Abraham. The family connections of the various Statler families is something I have been researching a long time. I have looked at the names of neighbors in America and and others on the same ship. I have found the different groups occasionally associated with some of the same surnames, but not enough to make a connection back to Europe. I have mapped out the towns in Europe from which the known neighbors and in-law emigrated, It looks like a map of the Rhine Valley: From around Mannheim up the river to Canton Bern, Switzerland about thirty mile either side of the river. Currently that land is in three countries, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Hard to zone in on that.

Hi List and Sandra Hall, Sandra, I would pay a reasonable price for a copy of the "mapping" you've done. We were briefly in a little town on the Rhine named Speyer, where we excitedly found a "Palatine Museum." Off course, it had closed for the evening. Also, a young Stettler man in Egiwill was shocked when I describe an "alleged Stettler Tree Familie" (not from the Halberts, by the way.) He said his Grandma had the exact same family tree hanging in her home. May I end this little note by saying "Praise the Lord" for all you researchers, especially the late Schuyler Brossman of Rehrersburg Pa, and wonderful genealogist and author Annette Burgert. May you have good luck in your research in 2003, cousins. Kirby Stetler of Ohio ----- Original Message ----- From: Sandra Jones Hall To: STATLER-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 11:22 AM Subject: Re: [STATLER] family tales Hi Brandy, What you have is a very common family tradition. There are stories in many families about brothers usually three, who came from Europe. Does it happen that way? Sometimes, much more often, a nuclear family (father, mother and children) emigrate along with other relatives, in-laws, and fellow church members and neighbors. Some of the passenger lists show Statler/Stettler/Stadler men coming as single men. In my Statler research I have found "the brother" story associated with the group of Statlers from Loudoun County, VA. In actuality the father of the brothers was there. The father was Abraham, sons John, Jacob and Abraham. The family connections of the various Statler families is something I have been researching a long time. I have looked at the names of neighbors in America and and others on the same ship. I have found the different groups occasionally associated with some of the same surnames, but not enough to make a connection back to Europe. I have mapped out the towns in Europe from which the known neighbors and in-law emigrated, It looks like a map of the Rhine Valley: From around Mannheim up the river to Canton Bern, Switzerland about thirty mile either side of the river. Currently that land is in three countries, Germany, France, and Switzerland. Hard to zone in on that. ============================== To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237