I still have some more Warrants and Surveys that I want to give, but I have failed to bring you up to date on the latest issue of B eyond Germanna , which has been out for almost two weeks. It was actually mailed early to be sure it would beat the price increase in postage. Postage is now up to sixty cents to mail one issue in an envelope. This is two ounces but it permits heavier paper and more pages. The issue had a "first", it contained twelve pages, not the customary ten.
The lead article was by Elizabeth Yates Johnson, who will be more easily recognized as Betty Johnson or just Betty. In her article, with no less than 40 references, she shows that the son John of Michael Yager was NOT the Piney Woods John. She has real clinchers for the proof, even though she adds a lot of circumstantial evidence.
Most of us have heard of the Zollikoffer appeal in Europe on behalf of the Germanna colonists. And many of are aware of the appeal to the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel (SPG) , even though it was of dubious origin or authorship. Andreas Mielke found abut nine documents that bear on the appeal, and he is still looking. What is most important, he found a printed version of the actual petition signed by Rev. Haeger and two elders of the Reformed Church in Virginia. It bears no resemblance to the SPG petition. He translated this appeal and a copy of the printed appeal, and the translation are included in the issue.
We decided to print the petition and include the translation by him to distribute gratis to the attendees at the Germanna Reunion who want to have it. Look for it at the Beyond Germanna vendor's table.
The July issue was rounded with two pages of photos that Eleanor and I took in Germany. I printed these two pages on my own printer so there was no copying of the first version. It improves the resultant photos and the comments have been good. The photos concentrate on Falkenstein and on Klings.
I will be taking some color photographs to the Reunion which are 11 by 17 inches and laminated. These cost me a nice little hunk of change, so I will have to charge for them. I will be bringing photos of the village of Falkenstein (Yagers), of the village of Neuenbuerg (Blankenbaker, Schluchter, Thomas, Scheible, and Fleshman), of Klings (Fleshman), of Plankenbuechler Gasse (Blankenbaker), of Eisern (Hoffman, Railsback, Stonecipher), of Muesen (Kemper, Brombach, Martin, Weaver), and of Trupbach (Otterbachs, Rectors, Fishbacks). I will say that they are fairly nice. Several of them duplicate the photos that Sgt. George has put on the web page. Now you can hang them on your wall or eat on them or catch the oil drippings from your car.
(13 Jul 02)
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.