Good afternoon fellow researchers!
I have just recently been handed the “ownership” of this List, which I see has 30 members,
including myself.
I had hoped to find out a little more about this particular research list before posting
online, but I guess the best way for me to learn things is to just ask. So, here goes:
1. A few tidbits about your “list owner” (that’s me).
a. I’m 79 years old, retired, and have had a life long interest in genealogy research.
b. I am a member of the Old German Baptist Brethren New Conference, with several several
ancestors who were Amish or Mennonite.
c. I live in California, where I spent my adult career in education, primarily high
school.
d. I am interested in this list because a couple of ministers with this surname lived in
the east central Indiana region in the early to mid 1800s, serving some of the Brethren
congregations in that area, and I’d like to find out more about them.
2. We are told that Ancestry plans to restore all the Archives eventually, but they are
working on the “more active” lists first. For this list, I haven’t found any archives yet.
Have any of you found them, or shall we just assume that we are more or less starting from
scratch on this list?
3. For those of you who remember the lists from a few years ago, your ability to post and
receive messages will function nearly the same, although there are some changes, mostly
behind the scenes. That is because Ancestry has invested several months of effort into
transferring everything over to a new version of the Mailman program.
4. That’s why I’m here: to help when things misbehave and you can’t get things to do what
you want or need. Just send a request my way.
Please feel free to help get this list back in functioning order.
James Shuman
jshuman(a)telis.org