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Susan, it is good to have a family tree. It does take a lot of time. Great steps!!
Wow...a lot of branching off in your family tree, Susan. (I hope you will like your prize gift. I will mail it today or tomorrow!)
It does show how close the Anabaptists have stayed to each other. Certainly, political history kept the ties close indeed. That's changing, for sure. Changed. The horrors of WWII took a lot of Anabaptists out of pacifism, and the Viet Nam-era war protestors opened the mainstream door to pacifism. Adult baptism itself is barely an issue -- certainly not a political issue.
Great steps, and story for a rain day!
I love reading about your family history.
Yes, super steps for a hard-to-get-steps day
How far back did your family separate from the Amish on your mother's side?
Steve, on Mom's side, my understanding is the sons of the man who moved to Ohio from Pennsylvania parted ways in Ohio, Gross Mose and his brother.
2008-11-06
steps: 22,621
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In the Alsace-Lorraine area and still near Salm, we saw the area in which the Sommerhof had been. We were told there are ruins, still, in the mountains behind the trees in this photo. The tour, however, couldn't spare the time for a search.
DH is descended from a John Sommer, born in 1813 in Europe and came to America in 1830 to Ohio. In 1846 he and his brother, Joe, started with their families in two wagons to go to Indiana. On the way, Joe took sick with Milk Fever and died, leaving his wife with five children. John looked after two families... they came to Illinois, where for the first time, they were on the prairie. They had all come from the mountain..
The Sommer family all come from the 1690s Amish split from the Mennonites. I believe the Lehmann family came from the Mennonite side -- though my mother's family (Miller and Beechy) came from the Amish, too.
Alternate aerobic exercise minutes: calisthenics, light: 20