The Baer newsletter
(Microfilm)

Bi-Monthly

Quarterly (vol. 1); bimonthly thereafter with some irregularities.

Intro. issue (Oct 1978); vol. 1 no. 1 (Jan 1979) - vol. 11 no. 1 (Jan 1989)

Editor: Cher Bibler (Oct 1978-Feb 1985); Connie Baer Petersen (Apr 1985-Jan 1989).

Vol. 6 no. 6 (Oct 1984) was not published. Publication under this title ceased with vol. 11 no. 1 (Jan 1989).

Some pages contain photocopies of previously published works, handwritten works, and newsclippings which may have small print, or are faded, damaged, or otherwise hard to read. Best copy available.

Microfiched with some issues from the continuing title, "The Bear family newsletter." Some pages are fiched out of order.

Later published: Deshler, Ohio : C.B. Peterson, 1985-1989. 5 v.

Filmed with: The Bear family newsletter.

Includes some bibliographic references.

Vols. 5 has only 5 issues. Numbering errors: vol. 5 no. 4 (June 1983) was misnumbered as vol. 5 no. 3; vol. 5 no. 5 was misnumbered as vol. 5 no. 4; vol. 5 no. 6 was misnumbered as vol. 5 no. 5; vol. 7 no. 2 (Feb 1985) was misnumbered as vol. 7 no. 8; vol. 9 no. 5 (Sep 1987) was misnumbered as no. 6.

Newsletter for the interchange of genealogical data and history of the Bear (and variant spellings) families who came mainly from Germany and Switzerland; others came from Austria, Denmark, France, Ireland, and Wales. Many were Mennonites and Palatinate immigrants. In the 1700's, some settled in Connecticut, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia. Early ancestors included John Baer who immigrated from Switzerland before 1730; and John Melchoir or Christophel (Stoffel) Baer who came on the ship "Phoenix" in 1743 to Philadelphia; also four brothers, John, Jacob, Abraham and Samuel Bare, who were born in Rockingham County, Virginia and moved to Seneca County, Ohio ca. 1820. During the 1800's, some Baers immigrated to Alberta, New Brunswick, and Ontario (Canada), and to Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, New York, Ohio, Tennessee, Utah, Washington D.C., Wisconsin, and West Virginia. Later descendants also lived in Saskatchewan (Canada), and in Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Massachusetts, Montana, Oregon, South Dakota, Texas, and elsewhere.

Microreproduction of originals published: Tiffin, Ohio : C. Bibler, 1978-1985. 7 v.

The Bare Reunion was first held in 1880, at the home of Michael Bare. Their 100th Bare Reunion was celebrated on 25 August, 1979 at Tiffin, Ohio.

Name and subject index to vols. 1-9 (1978-1987) is available from editor. Also includes a subject index to vols. 1-5 (in vol. 6 no. 2); and a subject index all of these, and some of the continuing vols. 1-16 is in vol. 16 no. 6 of the continuing title.