Jan, your trip sounds wonderful. Have a great time! Marsha Moses Jan Thomas wrote: >Marsha; I'll be happy to discuss this with you but I'm just beginning >to understand this phenomenon. I actually have a house in southwestern >OH right in the middle of that area of Quaker migration and researched >their history for years. If you can't drive up around Cincy before the >26th (I'll actually be in Cincy for research at the downtown library and >to visit the astounding Shelbourne Quilt Exhibit at the Art Museum. I'm >more than happy to help however I can but unless we do it while I'm >there, I won't be available until after the first of May. I have so >much swirling around my head trying to make plans to meet half the state >at different times for several research projects that I would ask you to >contact me again around the first of May. I hope to be sane by that time. > >Sincerely, > >Jan Thomas >Colorado Springs > >marsha moses wrote: > > >>Jan, I am very interested in your research. If this is not a Thomas >>line, we'll take the discussion privately. >> >> I have Thomas Quakers who made much the same migration that you are >>describing in the below. I have unfortunately not traced my Thomas line >>back to Virginia nor to PA.....I have guesses that this Thomas line that >>I first find in SC moved their from Hopewell MM In Northern VA and >>earlier than that were in PA. But I am still floundering for proofs. I >>am going to the Newberry County Homecoming in May to work on this puzzle. >> >>But I would like to discuss the below with you some more .....I do know >>that you have LOTS to do between now and Friday.....but if you can give >>me a quick reply either via the Thomas list....or if it is not about a >>Thomas line, to my private e-mail: mosesm@earthlink.net. >> >>My interest is many-fold.....I am also a handwork enthusiast....I live >>fairly near the area in Ohio where you are going (if I weren't on the >>road myself, I would drive up to meet you for lunch)....I have begun to >>read the Mennonite records in Winston-Salem, NC....well....I have >>quickly read a few parts.....I am including some Mennonite information >>in my VERY BRIEF presentation on the Great Wagon Road at the Newberry >>homecoming....well....just let me say that I am extremely interested in >>your research! Marsha not in WV temporarily >> >> >> >>Jan Thomas wrote: >> >> >> >> >>>Tom; >>>Sorry this has taken so long to answer. I'm leaving on a research trip >>>of Friday - so early in the morning that my husband will just have to >>>point me to the plane and shove. There are several reasons for the >>>Swiss Mennonite/Brethren migration north; the most important of which, >>>as I understand it now, was the slavery issue. I'm currently >>>researching a group of quilts made by one Brethren woman in OH between >>>1901 and 1907 and it is sort of how I got into the subject. I >>>accidentally happened on a talk given by Gale Honeyman of the Brethren >>>Heritage Center in OH the last time I was there for research. He had >>>traced this path from southern VA northward into the middle of OH which >>>included subsequent migrations of family, that may or may not have been >>>of either faith, but were following earlier transplants. Other >>>Anabaptists such as the Amish had already started into the northeastern >>>Holmes Co region of OH so they met up with others of like religious >>>beliefs. Land was fertile and cheap in OH at the time and these groups >>>merged in the same areas as those who migrated straight across PA and >>>along Zane's Trace that essentially bisected OH. I've traced many of >>>the family members of my quiltmaker extraordinare to counties on either >>>side of Zanes's Trace right into IN and beyond - pretty much on a >>>straight path west. I'd love to give you source reading material but >>>that is actually what part of this trip will be for. I'm heading to the >>>Brethren Heritage Center in Brookville, OH to learn just that. >>> >>>My quilt maker's religion played a major part in her life and I'm sure >>>affected why she made such unusual pieces. I am writing a paper and >>>then hopefully a book about her so I need to understand more about life >>>as a Brethren. To do that, I've got a lot of reading and interviewing >>>to do. I'm sure a query to the Center will get a nice long list of >>>source material. >>> >>>Jan >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >>------------------------------- >>To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to THOMAS-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 THOMAS-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >