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In an earlier message, I commented about the loss of a dear friend-cousin. True to that earlier promise, I documented all their ancestors (in the United States) and most of the ancestor siblings and their children. Years ago (1989, at “Annual Meeting”) when I was introduced to the Old Geman Baptist Brethren community, I was told, “you are related to most of these (4,000) people.”  This precious lady graciously shared her vast library of information with me. With my computer skills, I entered the data into a genealogy software program and later (1996) published Frantz Families–Kith & Kin.  Building my Ancestry.com database (the past two weeks) recognized these two but also crocheted numerous other families together.