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From: "Janice Sweeney" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 08:26:29 -0800


I agree with Merle. It seems setting up separate lists will be divisive. It would be hard for anyone to determine the odd fact that might lead me in a direction unexplored for lack of some bit of information. And I think all genealogists have a love of history and a deep interest in the beliefs and motivations of their ancestors. Please consider starting your discussions on this site and if it becomes clear that the two lists are incompatible, then that would be the time to arrange a separate list.

Thanks for hearing me out,
Janice

----- Original Message -----
From: Cheryll Reed
Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 6:43 AM
To:
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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