STUMP-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > STUMP-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 41 > > Today's Topics: > #1 Trip to PA to find STUMP ancestors [Sue Douglas <douglas@ees.eesc.com>] > #2 Re: Trip to PA to find STUMP ances [goodspsm@snyoneva.cc.oneonta.edu] > #3 Re: Trip to PA to find STUMP ances [Del Templin <del.templin2@sympatic] > #4 Re: Trip to PA to find STUMP ances [Betsy Young <Betsy.Young@oberlin.e] > #5 STUMP, HUFFMAN, MYERS ancestors fr [Mildred Prather <mprather@mail.coi] > #6 STUMP OF VERMILION CO. ILLINOIS ["DARLA" <ANNIE@DIDO.COM>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from STUMP-D, send a message to > > STUMP-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Trip to PA to find STUMP ancestors > Date: Thu, 01 Oct 1998 14:47:32 -0400 > From: Sue Douglas <douglas@ees.eesc.com> > To: STUMP-L@rootsweb.com > > Hi List Members, > > I need some advice. I've gathered the information at the > bottom of this list back to my gr gr > grandfather and now I'm stuck. I'm coming to PA in a few > weeks to do some research for birth, > death and marriage records. Should I go to Pittsburgh first > or should I just head for the State Library > > in Harrisburg? What is the best resource for finding Brethren > > records? I appreciate any and all help. Having researched a Brethren family extensively I can easily say you won't find any Brethren records. About the best you might come up with is a list of the members of a congregation from their yearly meeting. You will find no birth, baptism, marriage or burial records like you would normally find in a Lutheran or other church. The Brethren present a real challenge to research. You have to use other records - wills, deeds, census, cemetery, etc. records to piece the family together. You can also hope they join a Lutheran church where you can get better records on them.Bob Givens