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From: Dennis Quinter< >
Subject: Re: [OHMERCER-L] 1978 book & Harting family
Date: Fri, 19 Feb 1999 17:47:55 -0500


They just had another Harting reunion last year. My maternal grandmother
was a Harting. I got an invitation but did not go because they are all
so distant to me.

Dennis Q.

mark hipple wrote:
>
> Yes, please send it.
>
> The reason I like the 1978 book is that it gives a glimpse into the lives of
> your ancestors with personal stories/memories which you might never learn
> otherwise. Also by seeing who wrote the article you may be able to connect
> with a branch you had lost touch with. I am relatively young and don't
> remember intermingling with the families of my great-aunts and uncles much.
>
> By the way, I have a photo of a Harting reunion held in Mercer county about
> 194(?). It was done with a panoramic style camera and is about two feet in
> length. Just wondered if anyone remembered this event. There are close to
> 100 people in the photo. My mother and uncle are in it (Mary Ann RONNEBAUM
> Sommer and Giles Ronnebaum). They are shirt-tail relatives of the Harting
> family.
>
> Carol
>
> 10:52 AM 2/19/99 -0500, you wrote:
> >Hi Carol!
> >
> >Did you ever think you would generate so many reuests for the book? It
> >always amazes me how some simple request snowballs.
> >
> >Tina Hursh made a request about the Bruns family which sent me to the
> >LDS Library to find the records for the Bruns that married Elizabeth
> >Frilling. By finding them, I was able to tell her we weren't related.
> >I also talked to Father David Hoying and he told me where her Bruns
> >family was born. I also learned that the family at Egypt came fron yet
> >another town. If she hadn't made that request, I wouldn't have gone
> >looking for it.
> >
> >The book from Fort Recovery contains information about the Gus
> >Lennartz/Clara Ronnebaum family. I have entered it in my charts and
> >could send you an rtf file containing it.
> >
> >Have a nice weekend.
> >
> >Lois
> >
> >

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