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From: "Doris O. Sink" <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 18:19:51 -0500
References: <BAY3-DAV143sh5xO64R0001b421@hotmail.com>


Snow Hill is at Quincy, near Waynesboro, in Franklin Co Pa.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Janice Sweeney" <>
To: <>
Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 5:37 PM
Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister


> Where is the Snow Hill cloister?
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: kmoyer
> Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 1:45 PM
> To:
> Subject: RE: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
>
> I have been to Snow Hill and have a copy of the master's thesis done at
> Shippensburg U. on the place. I too am interested in whatever discussion
> might ensue and hope all of us on BRETHREN-L will be able to benefit by
it.
> But if it is going to go to a separate list, please do inform us how to
sign
> on to the list.
>
> Dr. Karl E. Moyer
> Millersville U.
> Millersville PA
>
> >===== Original Message From "Pat Curtis" <> =====
> >I just want you to know that I also agree with Merle.
> >Pat C
> >Bull Shoals,Arkansas
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Janice Sweeney" <>
> >To: <>
> >Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 8:26 AM
> >Subject: Re: [BRE] Anyone researching/interested in Snow HIll Cloister
> >
> >
> >> 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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