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From: "Doris O. Sink" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 10:36:14 -0500
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Cheryll, I am glad you are going ahead with the Snow Hill Cloister web site.
It has always been one of the most interesting of all researches. We visited
there many times, we attended a love feast there. It is worthy of it's own
web site. Thank you, Doris
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cheryll Reed" <>
To: <>
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 9:36 AM
Subject: RE: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister


>
> Merle,
>
> I do understand your point. I will tell you that I've heard from well
> over 35 people already who are interested in the Snow Hill list. It
> seems a waste of other researchers's time without an interest in these
> wonderful utopian "experiments" to be inundated with the tiny details
> some of us are interested in. The subject has also come up that many of
> us are interested in non-genealogical details about Ephrata and Snow
> Hill. I am personally very interested in knowing not just my ancestors'
> names and significant dates but what drove them, what inspired them, and
> the role spirituality played in their lives. I initially thought I
> might find another 6 or 7 people interested in a private list. The
> demand has been so overwhelming that we are in the process of setting up
> a rootsweb list so that the archives will be available to everyone.
>
> I've been a subscriber to the Brethren list for quite awhile and have
> learned so much. I plan on continuing and will certainly do whatever
> possible to make sure I notify the list when items of interest are
> posted or any new information uncovered.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Merle C Rummel [mailto:]
> Sent: Monday, March 03, 2003 5:44 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
>
>
> > Several of the subscribers to several of these lists are putting a
> > private email list together to share info on both the Snow Hill
> > Cloiser (and it's "mother" Ephrata) and the families associated with
> > it.
>
> The request has been made before -I, as an historian, especially want to
> repeat it -
>
> Please do not start all these separate llists - it prohibits the rest of
> us from knowing the informations that you present! And you might have
> something connected to what we need -that we had no idea about.
>
> I do not try to subscribe to all the lists of places and families that
> connect to the many immigrants into and through the Ohio, Kentucky,
> Indiana areas (1780s to 1850s mostly). It is impossible. I am trying
> to work up the original churches in these three states -and there are no
> church records of any kind for most of them. They disappeared. But
> then I see a request about your Brethren families -which mentions my
> area. Or alternatively, I know about that person -and you don't know
> that they came to my particular church settlement.
>
> With your separate list -both of us are loosers.
>
> Merle C Rummel
> Church Historian
>
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