Hello Terry,
Thanks for adopting us Ketterings, etc.
I like your rule number one. I used to tell my daughter all the time that "some
things are best left unsaid" and I think one of those places it applies to is the
black and white world of e-mail communication, where we see no gentle smile or hear no
humorous voice inflections to soften even the mildest criticisms.
I've tracked my Kettering family back to Hans Jacob KETTENRING in Germany. I do
however have a Johan Jacob KETTENRING, b 1717 Germany who settled in Wythe Co., VA and
married to Rebecca GUNTSHORN. His son, Michael, was born in Wythe or Montgomery Co., VA
in 1780. Any connection?