Welcome to the Shimer Family Webring Newsletter!

August 29th, 1999

Well, my time in Germany is closing down and I have mixed feelings about leaving. I am going to miss the beautiful countryside and the history that can be seen in every building and little town. I guess in a way I feel like our ancestors must have felt leaving their homeland for a strange and far away country. But I will be happy to return to the good ol' US of A this November to my family and my friends.

I am completely amazed at the amount of information I have received from members of this family since the last newsletter! It is fully about 4 inches of paper; I am finding it hard to add it all as I receive it! I would like to thank Penny Spencer again for her hard work and dedication to this research. I have begun adding the new data from Daniel Wyles Shimer to the present day. This should be up on my uploaded genealogy within the next couple days. Penny also has checked into the availability of Allen R. Shimer's "The History and Genealogy of the Shimer Family in America" from Barnes and Noble Books. She emailed me and said the title through B&N is Shimer, History and Genealogy of Shimer Families in America, Higginson Book Company, 1992 publishing date, 148 Washington Street, Salem, Mass 01970. Telephone: (508)745-7170. The ISBN # for the paperback is 0832827231 ($22.00), and the hardback is 0832827223 ($32.00). Let me know if you have success in obtaining the book from this source. Barnes and Noble can be found on the internet at www.barnesandnoble.com. 

I have also added a link you'll find below to Eva Duke's Home Page. She is busy conducting research into the descendants of Jacob Scheimer and has added a substantial amount of Allen R. Shimer's book to her pages. This has been a monumental task and I want to thank you Eva for all your support!

I would also like to thank George Shimer for mailing me his complete genealogy. I am still going through it all and I am trying my darndest to get it added to my genealogy and uploaded as fast as I can. Thanks again George, you've been a wonderful help! Penny Spencer got to visit George and his wife Roberta and family back at the beginning of August for a little mini-reunion of sorts, and to compare some notes after dinner. Maybe it's the start of a grander scale reunion in the future?

I have a couple ideas running around in my head for some future changes to my Shimer Family History Page. Let me know what you think. First, I would like to add a military history and tribute page; starting with the data I have received from Allen R. Shimer's book. This copy was graciously mailed to me by Rob Shimer along with some wonderful pictures and a furlough form from his Great, Great Grandfather James' Civil War company. I would love to have any information you would like to send me about any relative and ancestor who served in the military. Second, I would like to add a contacts list of those of us who are currently conducting research into the Shimer family. If you would like to volunteer to help with any research, let me know by email and I'll include your name in this list.

In closing, with this newsletter I have added a few new links below; one is to the Curtis Family Web Pages where you can find the data from Daniel Scheimer through Daniel Wyles Shimer to the modern day. Again, I welcome any input, by email, guestbook entry or smail, that you are willing to share with the family. I still encourage any information, however trivial, that you might want to share. This could include stories, reunion information, links, genealogy, etc. If you email me with genealogy data , I would be happy to forward this to everyone I have on my address book. I would greatly welcome any guest writers to this newsletter! I will try to do my best to manage this (the darn Army just keeps getting in the way!), so any help would be appreciated.

LOL!

Mike Shimer, Baumholder, Germany
92d Military Police Company
CMR 405 Box # 1763
APO AE 09034

P.S. I almost forget the most important piece of information I received all month! SRA Richard Shimer, who is stationed in Italy and is a son of George and Roberta Shimer of Idaho, and his wife Kim had a baby girl last Monday the 23rd of August! She weighed 8 pounds and was 20 inches long, and both the baby and mother are doing great! Congratulations are in order!

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