Thanks for the follow up Steven. Often people *believe* that all persons of surname X descend from person Y. It's a nice romantic notion, but its realistically impossible to prove but only takes one exception to disprove. Besides the claim only makes sense if someone in history just made up a brand new surname out of the blue that no one else had. Okay, now back to sifting through the Yoder Roll Call! Scott On Fri, 24 Oct 1997, Steven A. Braman wrote: > Daniel E. Hochstetler wrote: > > > > My Yoder line turned into a Hochstetler line many years ago. I observe > > that many who have multiple Yoder lines sometimes descend from different > > immigrants. In contrast, if one is a Hochstetler (a dozen spellings) it > > all goes back to a single immigrant: Jacob, 1738. One recent baby born of > > parents from the Nappanee, IN area has a family tree that goes back to this > > Jacob Hochstetler 44 times! > > > > Daniel, I have seven Yoder lines, and at least that many Hochstetler > lines. I however do have a Hohsteter line that does not go back to > Jacob. I tell people that I am 1/4 Amish, as 1/4 of my ancestry is Amish > through my mother's father Richard Yoder. On my Father's side of the > family, I am able to trace my descent from DJH9047 Ulrich Hohsteter who > was a soldier who fought under General Braddock before the Revolutionary > war. I have not been able to find much information about him though. His > descendants did intermarry with some of Jacob's descendants, so there is > some speculation that he may be related to Jacob. There were also a few > other Hochstetler immigrants, but none left the progency that Jacob did. > We are greatly indebted to Harvey's books for our knowledge of our > family. However, there are still a few mysteries even about Harvey. Did > he indeed have children? He lists several children for himself in the > book, but there is no documentary evidence of him ever having children. > I have done some census research on him, and the census never shows any > children. > ==== YODER Mailing List ==== Wondering about other genealogy lists? Check John Fuller's site for a complete list of lists: http://users.aol.com/johnf14246/gen_mail.html