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All of our books are dual language bilingual and include english as well as the language you select. A bilingual booklist books make wonderful memories especially when you share them with someone you care about. Thai turkish twi urdu vietnamese welsh yoruba modern foreign languages french. Wordforword translations appear on the facing page to the original text. Set out below you will find works of literature for learners of french, german, italian, spanish, chinese, japanese, arabic and latin. A study has shown that 34 hours of duolingo are equal to 1 university semester of language courses. The parallel text provides a childfriendly bridge to reading and speaking in another language. There are over 70 bilingual french english titles to choose from alone, from some of the most famous works of english and american literature. May 16, 2014 free online books for kids in multiple languages.
View our beautiful dual language and multicultural books for children of all ages teaching reading and phonics. Bilingual books for children is designed to help parents and language teachers everywhere. Over 100 french conversations and short stories conversational french dual language books by lingo mastery. Resources, podcasts and articles about using dual language and bilingual resources over a million children in uk schools are bilingual, just like the vast majority of people around the world. Mantra lingua is a uk based publisher of award winning multilingual education resources. Apple books has lots of ways to help you find reference books youll love. They are widely recognised as a valuable resource for parents and educators to use with children. Spanish english dual language story books little linguist.
Free online books for children in multiple languages. A product with dual action that kills bacteria and removes stains is really the best. Portuguese dual language books madeleine lindley ltd. Languages include english, russian, french, spanish, portuguese. Bilingual english and mandarin chinese books for kids dual language edition thai, ms jane on.
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Language lizard offers bilingual books, multicultural books and dual language audio books for kids and english language learners ell of all ages. Dual language books in portuguese or dlbs for short, as they are sometimes known are. Foreign language books gifts for language lovers vistawide. Language lizard offers a wide array of bilingual childrens books, including dozens of portugueseenglish options. Languages direct for people who love to learn languages. Collection includes portuguese folktales, fables, multicultural stories, myths, legends, board books, and a beautifully illustrated portuguese picture. Download it today and see how much it can help you and your children. Penguin parallel texts penguins parallel text range presents some of the best contemporary short story writers in the original language with expert wordforword translations on the facing page. We have bilingual books in over 50 languagesand our own publication, sea monsters, the hit new bilingual coloring book. Click on the link above and you will find parental guidance on the following aspects of curriculum for excellence in arabic, bengali, bulgarian, chinese, polish, romanian, thai, turkish and urdu.
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Collection includes portuguese folktales, fables, multicultural stories, myths, legends, board books, and a beautifully illustrated portuguese picture dictionary available with audio recorder pen. Penguins parallel text range presents some of the best contemporary short story writers in the original language with expert wordforword translations on the facing page. Whether you want to read to your kids in english and spanish, french and german, or hindi and thai, unuhi. English translation of eua the official collins portugueseenglish dictionary online. Many translated example sentences containing dual language books portuguese english dictionary and search engine for portuguese translations. Foreign language books, from novice to native speaker. Bilingual english and mandarin chinese books for kids dual language edition. Naldic eal resources bilingual and dual language resources. Bilingual english and mandarin chinese books for kids dual language edition seasons volume 1 thai, ms jane c. This resource is provided free of charge for the purpose of language learning, language teaching and translation research, and as a demonstration of the text alignment services offered here.
Learn portuguese bilingual book portuguese english the life of cleopatra kindle edition by redback books, bilingual planet. We have dual language books to suit every child, whatever the language spoken. Our mission is to help children learning different languages and cultures. On this page, we will keep you informed about our free dual language books, publications or special promotions.
Reading this entertaining dual language book will help you develop your knowledge of the spanish language. World childrens book, bilingual childrens books, bilingual books, philipp winterberg, isbn. Find the top 100 most popular items in amazon kindle store best sellers. They offer free samples of many of their books, which you can filter by language. Eal edinburgh have produced a number of leaflets about. English translation of double the official collins frenchenglish dictionary online. Audio narration is available in english, spanish, french and german, with more languages to follow. Suitable for both individuals and groups, these books are a childs perfect introduction to exploring other cultures. One of my readers who is preparing to raise his newborn daughter bilingually in a language not his own recently asked about childrens storybooks online. Language lizard offers languages paired with english for their dual language books, with multiple languages across books. Our mission is to help children learning different languages and. Learn the innivative way with free audiobooks from. This collection combines photographs, bright illustrations, and dual language words in clear, bold text.
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A dual language childrens book in english and spanish. We have released the life of basil which tells how our little friend basil came to live in the flowerpot with rosemary and the sisters. Awardwinning portuguese english bilingual childrens books, audio books and dual language picture books are a great resource for teaching and learning portuguese and english as a second language. Dual language picture book for kids portuguese edition perrault, charles, bagdasaryan, svetlana on. Over 100,000 english translations of french words and phrases.
Languages direct sell the best language products and resources for foreign language learners. Bilinguis this website offers translations of different books to different languages, with the translated side by site. We work closely with schools and libraries to provide the best books for preschool, kindergarten and elementary language learners. They see the use of more than one language as a normal part of their daily lives. Ease into portuguese reading with seven bilingual books in portuguese and english thatll improve your language skills, no matter what your skill level is. The best childrens authors, poets, illustrators, storytellers and performers are just a phonecall away from your next book event.
This collection includes the following fairy tales. Englishthai bilingual edition bilingual by philipp winterberg, nadja wichmann, sandra hamer, david hamer isbn. Norwegian, polish, portuguese, romanian, russian, spanish, swedish, thai. Browns books for students 2014 all rights reserved rev. Great french short stories of the twentieth century. Awardwinning thaienglish bilingual childrens books, audio books and dual language picture books are a great resource for teaching and learning thai and english as a second language. Life of basil a vida do manjericao free bilingual book in english and portuguese. Millennium library arabic, bengali, chinese, farsi, german, gujarati, hindi, hmong, japanese, khmer, korean, kurdish, punjabi, polish, russian, somali, spanish. Dual language books portuguese portuguese dual language books. Collection includes portuguese folktales, fables, multicultural stories, myths, legends, board books, and a beautifully illustrated portuguese. Apr 05, 2020 unuhi provides dual language ebooks, recommended for children aged 2 to 10 years old. Tamia is not sure and keeps asking various animals that she meets on her journey.
Dover publications dual language books languages direct. Awardwinning thai english bilingual childrens books, audio books and dual language picture books are a great resource for teaching and learning thai and english as a second language. The free unuhi ipad app is a series of beautifully illustrated bilingual books for. The community hall was designed for dual use, by the school during school hours and by the public at other times. Dual language books, bilingual books, parellel text, canada. Bilingual english and mandarin chinese books for kids dual language edition seasons volume 1. Select titles may have one or more of the following additional languages. Polishenglish portugueseenglish punjabienglish russianenglish serbianenglish somalienglish spanishenglish tagalogenglish thaienglish. Multiple parallel bibles 8 languages selectable these sets display two or more bibles in parallel. Dual language books for children and families dual language books have english and a second language sidebyside on the page. All books are dual language with english and spanish.
They are sometimes referred to as dual language books or sidebyside books and have 2 different languages on the same page with the second language being a translation comparison of the first. This illustrated story is for bilingual children and portuguese language students with a basic or intermediate knowledge who want to read a dual language text in english and portuguese. Finding bilingual books in french, spanish, hindi, and swahili can be hard, so we have gathered many of the best bilingual childrens books together in one place for you. Portuguese, romanian, russian, serbian, slovak, slovene, somali, spanish. Madeleine lindley ltd has a huge selection of dual language fiction books for the foundation stage, key stage 1 and key stage 2. Chronologically arranged to illustrate the development of the story form in spanish, the stories are presented both in spanish and english, enabling students to learn a language. A beginners dual language book by harry steinhauer flowers of evil and other works les fleurs du mal et oeuvres choisies. Harry potter is rumored to be habitforming, so dont read one unless youre ready to read them all. These books help build a solid foundation to achieve literacy in any language while affirming and validating a childs identity, culture, and home language. Aug 15, 2018 bilingual books are a wonderful aid to learning a second language and are particularly effective for toddlers and young children. English translation of eua collins portugueseenglish.
Dover publications dual language books are ideal for anyone wanting to refresh their vocabulary and language skills while simultaneously reading great literature. Portugueseenglish bilingual childrens books kids portuguese. Unuhi childrens bilingual book app 210 yrs in 20 languages. Youarespecialdual language books with over 75 languages.
Parallel texts dual language at languages direct we aim to provide the most complete selection of parallel texts duallanguage books for foreign language learners. Philipp winterberg, nadja wichmann, sandra hamer, david hamer. Childrens dual language spanish and english story books. Some of the books are popular childrens favourites. Sets are organized by region or language interaction. Browse, buy, and download reference books from apple books. Folio bilingue duallanguage parallel text books we stock the complete collection of folio bilingue duallanguage parallel text books. My bilingual talking dictionary in portuguese and english.1397 455 812 1315 438 722 1580 1094 419 320 664 511 438 1015 761 625 987 467 967 1349 1350 1066 436 536 795 285 1261 1108 240 978 556 758


Love, she thought, must come suddenly, with great outbursts and lightnings,—a hurricane of the skies, which falls upon life, revolutionises it, roots up the will like a leaf, and sweeps the whole heart into the abyss.
Gustave Flaubert, Madame Bovary (via larmoyante)
*** One of my favorite books ever. The person referred to here as “she” is the titular character, Madame Bovary, who commits adultery against her unsuspecting husband. She committed suicide at the end of the story. Guilt and shame. Swallowed poison and died gazing at herself in the mirror while the poison foamed from her mouth. She felt that this was very “romantic”.


I have just finished reading through Twisted-Stitch Knitting by Maria Erlbacher. This is printed by Schoolhouse Press, and was originally published in the 1980s as three booklets in German. The Schoolhouse Press version is in English.
It is a fantastic collection of Austrian twisted stitch patterns, all very delicate and intricate. The first half of the book is a stitch dictionary containing 174 twisted stitch patterns, lots of interesting patterns I haven’t seen anywhere else. The charts require a bit of getting used to since they use different symbols to any chart I have used, but there is definitely a sensible logic to them, and they are easy to work with once you get the hang of it. There are nice clear photos of all the stitch patterns too (all in black and white) so you can check that your knitting is coming out as expected.
The second half of the book is patterns for garments, these do require a bit of initiative as they are guidelines only and usually only in one size, but then the idea of this book is to use the stitch dictionary part to create your own garments, so the garments given are really just ideas of combinations you could use. There are some fabulous knee-high socks with calf shaping all covered in twisted stitches. I haven’t worn knee socks since I was 11 but these look quite tempting! The last section is of cardigans, jumpers, jackets and waistcoats. Some great ideas here, and I am looking forward to having a go.


It's the late 1800's and Melinda Colson is in love with a man who loves her in return. The only problem is that Melinda works as a ladies maid and is only able to see her beloved Evan one season of the year. She longs for him to ask her to marry him so that she can stay on the island where he lives and works. She is weary of having a long distance relationship for most of the year. When a hurricane strikes the island Melinda is frantic with worry and sets out to find Evan. Surely he will marry her once she arrives at the island. Or will he?
"To Love and Cherish" by Tracie Peterson and Judith Miller is a sweet and mellow story about love and waiting on God's perfect timing. It is the second book the two authors have written that is set on picturesque Bridal Veil Island. It gives a glimpse at what life was like for both the rich and the working class of the time period.
While I found this to be a pleasant light read I probably won't read the other books in the series. I had trouble understanding Evan's character and kept wishing he would portray his love more convincingly. I am glad that I read the book, however, as it was a very calm and relaxing read.
I received a free copy of this book for review from Bethany House publishing.


OUA student cannot access online library
I am an OUA student. I am querying about library access to databases for researching & writing assignments etc...
I am aware of the restrictions in place for OUA students such as: book loans(unless being a fee paying member) or accessing uni computers.
When try to access the library, i am greeted with the following page(image attached).
I click the first option, but the same page keeps loading.
Please advise if any OUA students have had problems with accessing the library.
Re: OUA student cannot access online library
Go to RMIT Australia's home page.
Scroll down to Library and click, it will ask you to sign in and see how you go.


You need to have the appropriate tools to download the code from the repository. Once the tools are installed:
The OTRS framework and some additional modules are available on github
There you will also find checkout instructions as well as a repository
Currently, a number of OTRS extension modules are still available via
CVS only. A migration to git is planned.
Login to the CVS with:
cvs -d :pserver:email@example.com:/home/cvs login
password is: cvs
To check out the 'HEAD', which is the current version in development
(experts and adventurous individuals recommended only):
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:firstname.lastname@example.org:/home/cvs co modulename
Checking out of a specific OTRS version can be done by using a release tag:
cvs -z3 -d :pserver:email@example.com:/home/cvs co -r rel-3_1
A web viewer allows you to browse the repository and compare file revisions in CVS.


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Thomas L. Friedman and Michael Mandelbaum (2011) reflect on the state of the United States in That Used to Be Us: How America Fell Behindin the World It Invented and How We Can Come Back and boldly state the following: “America plays a huge and, more often than not, constructive role in the world today. But that role depends on the country's social, political, and economic health. And America today is not healthy—economically or politically” (2011, p. xi). As the title suggests, the authors contend that the United States is failing to overcome the challenges of the current day. Should this pattern persist, the United States will no longer be recognized as a leader of nations. The revolution in information technology is identified as one of the four main challenges posed to the United States. The authors address this challenge and call for the revitalization of creative, critical thinking. In today’s altered world, there is a dire need for an education that inspires. According to Friedman and Mandelbaum (2011), the education system in the United States is in flux, continually changing in response to advances in technology. They contend that “the world increasingly will be divided between high-imagination-enabling counties, which encourage and enable the imagination and extras of their people, and low-imagination-enabling countries . . .” (2011, p. 138). American educators are thus posed with the challenge of inspiring imagination and teaching students to become workers in a world defined by the knowledge economy. In order to maintain its international competitiveness, the United States must be counted among the “high-imagination-enabling counties.” Such a feat, however, is not easily recognized.


I knew that Louis was born Lars Erik Elg, on June 9, 1853, at Gravendal, Dalarna, Sweden. His father was Lars Elg (1823 – 1871), a blacksmith at the mill in Gravendal, his mother was Stina Carlsdotter, b abt 1820.
In November 1877 Lars Erik emigrated to the US, destination Iowa. I knew that he had lived in Helena, Lewis and Clark Cy. Montana, and at Idaho Falls, Bonneville, Idaho.
In order to identify the photo I wrote a letter to the Montana Historical Society, who quickly responded:
Dear Mr. Elg,
I searched the Helena City Directories from 1895 through 1905. There is no record of a Louis Elge in Helena. The Directories do list Elges. In 1900, for instance, there is a Francis O. Elge and an Otto. Otto was the Sexton at the Swedish Mission Church in Helena.
However, I did find a Louis Elg in the 1900, 1910, and 1920 Census. He was enumerated in Idaho Falls, Idaho. The 1900 Census reported his wife’s name as Charlotte. He was born in Sweden about 1854. His occupation was listed as “Druggist” in 1900. In 1910 his occupation was “Proprietor”, and in 1920 he was living with a son, Edward, and his occupation was listed as “None”.
I believe the building in the photo must have been in Idaho Falls.
The Bonneville County Historical Society also provided a swift reply:
Dear Mr. Elg:
This is the information we have on Louis Elg: He came to the U.S. in 1874, stopping in Chicago; Boone County, Iowa where he worked in coal mines; and Omaha, Nebraska where he worked as a blacksmith and in a machine shop. In 1879 he was working for the railroad in Rawlins, Wyoming and he went from there to Dillon, Montana, also with the railroad. The first information about him in Idaho Falls was in 1895 when he opened a drug store on the corner of Front Street and Main Street. These streets have since been renamed Park Avenue and Broadway. The photo you sent is probably of this drug store. In 1904 a fire destroyed 20 businesses on the north side of Broadway from Park Ave. to the Snake River three blocks to the west. Central Drug Store would have been in this area. Later he owned another drug store called Eagle Rock Drug. His residence was on Chamberlain Ave. He was a well-known citizen of Idaho Falls, serving on the city council and as mayor of the city from 1910-1911. His wife was Charlotta and they had at least one child, Eddie.
Attached you will find photos of the Chamberlain Street residence, Mr.and Mrs. Louis Elg and Eddie.
Elg family residence on Chamberlain Street, ca 1900
The Elg family
Edward August Elg
With this information I was able to find a biography from “History of Idaho”, published in 1914:
LOUIS ELG. From Sweden have come many of the substantial and representative men of Idaho, some with poor equipments, according to the world’s estimation, and others, like Louis Elg, proprietor of the largest drug business in the state and for eleven successive years mayor of Idaho Falls, after they had secured a fair education , the only capital which their parents could afford them. Like many others from North, South, East and West, Mr Elg’s entrance into Idaho was in a humble capacity, a worker on that greatest of civilizing factors, the railroad, and with this as a stepping stone he entered into other opportunities, took advantage of them, and today is a man of wealth and influence, both won entirely by self-effort.


Judith Royle has had 40 years experience in serving people to become empowered and live life to their highest potential. As part of her journey in acquiring these skills, she was an Elementary School Principal and is a Healing Practitioner.
Judith incorporates a wide range of tools that meet the needs of a diverse society in this age of dynamic change.
The Soul Already Knows
Judith's first book, The Soul Already Knows, is a story of a soul’s journey as the thread of past lives creates the notion that in each lifetime we learn from previous lifetimes in the quest for wholeness. As a result of visiting many lifetimes with the expressed purpose of healing the past, she is able to see her present life with different eyes. Lessons become gifts of opportunity and she is able to express a whole new level of gratitude for her lifelong learning. Each visit to a lifetime presents a fascinating basis of historical era, geographical location and cultural implications.


Our goal is to create an interactive and accessible resource to learn about Indonesian cuisine and culture.
On Ayo Makan, each recipe is written in Indonesian and translated into English. The recipes include background context that describe details such as colonization influences, holiday traditions, or insights into Indonesian life. Aided with creative drawings, vibrant photography, and a simplistic design, we hope to convey feelings of warmth, home, and hospitality- akin to the culture of Indonesia.
We intend for this to be a truly accessible resource for beginners learning about Indonesia for the first time, or for people wanting to supplement their Indonesian language studies. With the support of the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Alumni Development Fund, we are able to publish Ayo Makan as a digital site as well as a physical resource. The cookbook is the second part of our project that we will release soon. Once finalized, we will distribute the cookbook to public institutions and individuals as a free, permanent learning resource. To stay updated on the release date of the cookbook, please subscribe to our site! For more content beyond recipes, follow our Instagram!
We are a sister duo born in Indonesia and based in the United States. Originally, we toyed with this project idea as a way to spend time with our grandmother when she came to visit us in the US. Since baking is one of her all-time favorite activities, we decided to finally learn what it takes to make our favorite foods. The recipes are based on her long history of baking and cooking Indonesian foods.
Doing this project definitely made us learn a lot about baking and about our own roots and language. Growing up in the US, we didn’t get a lot of chances to explore what Indonesian culture meant outside our own small family. There was a lack of available Indonesian resources and representation, especially ones that were current and relatable. So, we decided to fill that gap using food as a medium, because food, including the ingredients, cooking methods, and eating traditions, show how a culture has been shaped and how it continues to be shaped. Now, we are excited to let others have the chance to explore Indonesia's dynamic culture.


By Priscilla Wegars, Ph.D., Volunteer Curator, AACC
At the UI’s Asian American Comparative Collection (AACC), we are excited to be collaborating with the UI’s Confucius Institute (CI) as the CI opens a branch in Boise. Founded in 1982, the AACC is contained within the UI’s Laboratory of Anthropology which in turn is a unit of the Department of Sociology/Anthropology in the College of Letters, Arts and Social Sciences (CLASS).
The AACC began as one of the first celebrations of ethnic and cultural diversity on the UI campus. Using an extensive assemblage of artifacts acquired through excavation, purchase, or donations from interested persons, and a wealth of bibliographical materials, such as books, articles, and images, the AACC’s main purpose is to assist researchers, including students, faculty, and members of the public, to investigate, interpret, learn about, and understand the history, culture, archaeological sites, and artifacts of people of Asian and Asian Pacific Islander ancestry who immigrated to the Pacific Northwest during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
For the CI’s branch opening in Boise, the AACC will loan items for an exhibit case in the Water Center. The exhibit, which will be up through July 2016, will contain artifacts and books related to Chinese pioneers in Idaho and the Boise Basin. On Thursday, April 21, from 11:30-12:30, Priscilla Wegars, the AACC’s volunteer curator, will discuss “Chinese Pioneers in Idaho and the Boise Basin,” sponsored by the Idaho Humanities Council Speakers Bureau. A “hands-on” display of Chinese artifacts from the AACC will follow the PowerPoint presentation.
More information on the AACC is available at <http://webpages.uidaho.edu/aacc/index.htm>. Some of the topics accessible there include artifact illustrations, contents of the AACC Newsletter, available lectures, sensitivity issues, ongoing research, regional sites and museums to visit, and links to related websites.


Books are a passion of mine. It is basically impossible to have too many of them, don’t you think? But the habit can be a costly one, unless you have good sources for finding bargain books. We’ve built a rather large family library for not a lot of mula by using the places I’ve listed below.
In my recent post about encouraging your children to love reading, I suggested having LOTS of books in the home. You want your child to see reading as something to do for fun, and that’s easier to do when books are always handy.
But books are getting more and more pricey all the time. The days of the 95-cent paperback are LONG gone. (Don’t ask me if I remember them. If I answer yes, then I’m old; if I answer no, then I’m senile…) It can be hard to build up a decent quantity of good literature for our kids to read. But with a little ingenuity, and keeping it as a priority in one’s head, it is possible.
My Recommendations for Finding Bargain Books
1) Don’t shy away from older books. There are decent children’s books that were published within the last 10 years or so, but there are LOTS more that were published much longer ago than that. In older books, the child characters are innocent, humble, polite, and interested in age-appropriate things – if you know what I mean. (See my series on giving books as gifts for book recommendations for toddler through teen.) As a corollary to this, don’t avoid used books, either. The words are still the same, even if the binding is a little worn. And the older, used books will go for much cheaper at the places I list below than the more recent or brand new ones.
2) Library Sales – I cannot pass up a library book sale, y’all. Our library has a table on the way out the door with books that they have removed from their shelves. These books sell for anywhere from 25-cents to a buck or two. We’re talking hardbound books for very little money, so I always stop and look.
3) Garage Sales – I sometimes think reading is becoming a lost art. That conclusion is forced upon me when I see people selling good books at their garage sales, including children’s books that their kids supposedly no longer want to read. I wonder if that’s really true (see my extra tip at the end). Well, their loss is my gain, because the prices at garage sales can’t be beat.
4) Thrift/Secondhand Stores — I usually go to a thrift store for another reason – to scope out home décor or name-brand clothing for cheap, but I ALWAYS check to see what books they have. You never know what you will find. And they usually go for pennies.
5) Used Book Stores — But be careful here. While the prices at used book stores are less expensive than buying new, books there can still be quite a chunk of change, especially if you’re trying to buy several. I look for a clearance table — that is where you will find the real bargains.
6) Ebay — This is a good place to look for a particular book, or for a series or collection. I purchased Georgette Heyer books in lots for what turned out to be about 50-cents a book. I also found my husband’s Winston Churchill WWII series for not too much, and most of the American Adventure series for the kids. Just be sure to read the description of the book’s condition carefully. I don’t mind a few marks or bent pages, but a book that will fall apart the first time we read it is NOT a good deal. (Then there was the time my husband won a full set of Encyclopedia Brittanicas… the shipping was HORRENDOUS… )
7) Amazon — Not always a great bargain, but I look at the used books that go for under a dollar. They usually have shipping tacked on, but if I happen to have a $5 gift card from Swagbucks, then I can get one for free! Again, check carefully for the condition. I don’t usually buy from sellers that don’t describe the specific book I’m looking at. Many of them will have generic descriptions – that’s not enough information for me, thank you. (Barnes & Noble has used books, too.)
8) Other sites such as Alibris, Abe Books, Half.com – Again, if you are looking for a particular book or series of books, these sites are worth checking out. It’s called comparison shopping, right from the comfort of your sofa.
9) Kindle books — I confess that I prefer having a real book in my hands — and I try to limit my kids’ time on electronic devices — so I will prefer buying an actual paperback over getting the Kindle version any day. But with all the free and 99-cent books available on Kindle, I just can’t ignore it as a great source. You do not have to purchase a Kindle in order to read a Kindle book — the Kindle software is available for free to be downloaded to your computer, or there is an app for your phone. A lot of libraries now have online book lending services, as well. You can read the book on your Kindle for two weeks and then return it. It’s not the same as owning the book, but it’s free!
10) Then there are some unconventional sources, if you are a little more adventurous. When my husband was in seminary, he placed a “wanted to buy” ad in the local classifieds. Months later he received a call from a gentleman who GAVE him his entire library of theological books – hundreds of them. You never know what may happen if you’re willing to think outside of the box.
And here’s an extra tip: Keep books for a few years after your kids have outgrown them. Perhaps let them keep their favorite books in their rooms for as long as they like. Your child may want to revisit an old friend, and it would be a bummer if he couldn’t find the book that his friend is in.
There is a certain joy in rereading a favorite book a gazillion times; it’s like giving your old teddy bear a hug. I try to keep most of our other possessions to a minimum, but books are the one thing that I do NOT declutter regularly. Getting rid of a book is like cutting off my right arm!
Suffice it to say, then, that I have a LOT of experience in finding bargain books. The suggestions in this article are tried and true! Give them a try the next time you need to find books for school or work or your own personal reading. Start building your library today! :-)


As a mom of four children, I’ve breastfed for a combined total of 5 years and 9 months over the last 11+ years of motherhood. I’ve learned that there are as many breastfeeding experiences as there are shapes and sizes of breasts, and that, unfortunately, many women experience a lack of breastfeeding support. Many women don’t know anyone who breastfeeds, don’t know where to access good information about breastfeeding, and don’t know where to seek help when things become hard. This was my experience when my first child was born 11 ½ years ago. Though she grew and gained weight well, I didn’t enjoy breastfeeding at all. It was excruciating those first 3 weeks and I wanted to give up every single day. My husband encouraged me to keep trying and after a couple months we got into a good rhythm and things were less painful. But throughout that time I didn’t have the support I needed. I felt alone in my breastfeeding journey, and I think that contributed to the intense postpartum depression I suffered from.
It wasn’t until a few years later that I learned that breastfeeding is never supposed to be painful and that there are a wide variety of resources and support out there for breastfeeding women. While studying to become a doula and eventually a childbirth educator (initially through a different organization) I read countless books about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and babies. I read books like “The Womanly Art of Breastfeeding” and “The Nursing Mother’s Companion” and while they were super helpful, leading to better breastfeeding experiences with my subsequent children, it wasn’t until this year that I found my favorite breastfeeding book ever, Breastfeeding Made Simple: Seven Natural Laws for Nursing Mothers by Nancy Mohrbacher and Kathleen Kendall-Tackett.
There are two main reasons why this book is my favorite breastfeeding book:
The book is thorough, but easy to understand.
Breastfeeding Made Simple covers everything you could want to know, and though that can often be overwhelming for some people, the information is broken up into small segments with titles and subtitles making it much easier to internalize and retain. That same information is then quickly summarized at the end of each chapter, and then consistently referred to throughout the text to help you make important connections while you read. There are lots of helpful pictures and diagrams so that even if you don’t have access to an in person lactation consultant, you have great information to refer back to. I really appreciated this format because it gave me time to pause between ideas and think about my own breastfeeding experiences and the experiences of other women I know. (It also made it easier to read with my kids around interrupting me every 3-5 minutes!)
The reference section is extensive, showing the great lengths the authors went to to provide the most recent, evidence-based information to their readers which is something I greatly value, and the index is incredibly detailed making this book easy to use as a reference guide. So often in books of this nature, it can feel like “word vomit” and you’re left searching page after page looking for that one piece of information you only half remember but felt was really important. You never have to do that with this book! The authors explain concepts simply, but with all the information you need to help you in your breastfeeding journey.
Though detailed, the book is incredibly relatable!
As I mentioned before I’ve read plenty of books about pregnancy, birth, breastfeeding, and babies, and many of them are hard for me to read because they’re either too clinical or too casual. Breastfeeding Made Simple marries the clinical and the casual perfectly! It’s a book I could read over and over again as a refresher and still be as engaged as the first time I read it. At least once a chapter my family could hear me vocalize things like, “That makes SO much sense!” or, “I wish someone would have explained it like that to me when I was breastfeeding!” while I was reading.
Some of the things that seemed so difficult to understand or explain to others were broken down and explained simply, but powerfully, in such a way that it stuck in my mind. For example, they describe the way to latch a baby the same way that you bite a sandwich that is just a little too big for your mouth. You start by opening your mouth wide, setting the sandwich on your bottom teeth, and then rolling the top of the sandwich into your mouth to get a good bite. Getting as much of the breast in baby’s mouth as possible is done the same way. Such a simple analogy, and something most everybody can relate to!
As both a mother and a birth worker, I can emphatically say that Breastfeeding Made Simple is one of the best breastfeeding books out there! This is one of those books that I would buy a case of and gift to couples at every baby shower I’m invited to because it’s that good. Just about every question a breastfeeding mom could have is answered in this book from the history and culture of breastfeeding, to the clinical and emotional aspects of breastfeeding and everything in between. This book is a must-read for every expectant couple and every couple who plans to breastfeed their baby.
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I’m launching a fundraising for GtkSourceView!
If you don’t know what GtkSourceView is, it’s a widely used library for text editors and IDEs (or text editing in general). For example on Debian, more than 50 applications rely on GtkSourceView, including gedit and GNOME Builder.
What less people know about is that GtkSourceView has been almost entirely developed by volunteer work, without being paid, except a few Google Summer of Code. So with the fundraising it’ll hopefully change, to bring the library to the next level!
Go to the fundraising on Liberapay for more information.


Please visit our Open House at 309 1830 SOUTHMERE CRES E in Surrey.
Open House on Saturday, March 17, 2018 2:00PM - 4:00PM
Great location walk to the library, shopping, transit, and schools. Offers two good size bedrooms with great closet space, storage and parking. Two full bathrooms, spacious kitchen, large open balcony, storage locker on the same floor included in monthly fee, radiant baseboard heating and hot water. Complex offers a seasonal outside swimming pool, rec room and workshop. 2 year old new building exterior. First showing Wednesday March 14 5:30pm to 7:00pm. Saturday March 17 2:00pm to 4:00pm. Offers March 19th 11:00am onward.


'India's First Cambridge Blue' - By Sebastian Pender, VM 105 & VM106
24 February 2018 (First printed 31st JANUARY 2015)
Paresh Lal Roy represented CUABC in 1914 and won his bout to become India’s first Cambridge Blue. Educated at London’s St Paul’s School, Roy learnt how to box as a school boy and won the Public School Championships at Featherweight before joining Trinity College, Cambridge. Following WWI, during which Roy served in the Royal Artillery, he returned to India where he continued to box.
On one particularly memorable occasion some years later in Calcutta, Roy was watching a large boxing show held at the Empire when the withdrawal of one of the boxers prompted Roy to ‘gulp down his scotch and soda’ before stripping down to his underpants and volunteering to replace the injured boxer. As one surprised member of the crowd later recounted, those at ringside watched incredulously as ‘dress bow, stiff shirt and dress suit were peeled off and into the ring stepped a man with black silk socks and patent leather shoes’.
If the build up was surprising then the result was unbelievable. Wearing just his pants and patent leather shoes, the slightly built and intoxicated Roy looked like an easy target for his experienced and much larger opponent, however in the very first round, Roy delivered a series of unanswered blows which left his opponent face down on the canvas and the referee scrambling to pull the ‘little Indian’ off his powerfully built opponent.
Though never turning professional, Roy perhaps showed the extent of his sporting prowess when, in 1924, he fought Edgar Bright, the reigning Bantamweight Champion of India. Knocking him down repeatedly including, on one occasion, through the ropes and into the crowd, the controversial decision in favour of Bright was probably more a reflection of the political climate than of the fight itself.
Today, Roy is remembered by many as the ‘father of Indian boxing’, less for his time in the ring and more for a lifetime spent popularising the sport in the subcontinent. With a number of monuments dedicated to his memory, and with a large stadium named after him, Roy is rightly remembered among the greatest of CUABC’s alumni.
Heavyweight Blue turns 100
28tH October 2017
CUABC is pleased to announce the 100th birthday of John Hockman, who fought at heavyweight in the 1939 Varsity Match. John is pictured above wearing the original 1896 CUABC tie, sent as a gift from the Club. Also pictured is his 1939 Varsity team photo and match reports from The Times and Varsity.
John was educated at Bradfield School, where he was captain of boxing and swimming. He studied at at Jesus from 1936 to 1939, and was elected to the Hawks Club in October 1939. His proposed was P. E. Templar, and his seconder was Alan Burrough. Alan was also a Jesuan and a very fine rower, winning the Diamond Skulls at Henley, also possessing a distinguished war record. He was subsequently MD of Burroughs Gin.
The Club is grateful to Tim Ellis at the Hawks Club for providing this information.
A Report on the Annual Dinner at the Oxford & Cambridge Club
21st October 2017
Report by James Kuo
Each year, we host the Annual Dinner at the Oxford & Cambridge Club in London.
Organised by former CUABC President and Varsity-winning welterweight Billy Fitton, the event was a great success, with a broad range of former boxers and coaches alike in attendance. In his absence, the host for the evening was Judah Aiyenuro, winner of the 2017 Varsity heavyweight bout and the self-proclaimed 'Gentle Beast'. After welcoming the alumni, he outlined the latest developments at the club, including the record-breaking turnout at trials and the exponential growth of interest in women's boxing, both competitive and recreational.
Just before dessert, Rupert Wise delivered a speech on the lessons he learned from his harrowing 13-day experience as a hostage of the Iranian authorities. Eloquent and entertaining in equal measure, he impressed upon the diners the fact that morale is something to be trained like a sharp jab - that is to say, drilled over and over again. His speech was received with rapturous applause, and will certainly be a hard act to follow next year.
Thanks go to all those in attendance, as well as the Oxford & Cambridge Club for their accommodation of CUABC. Special thanks go to Billy Fitton and Judah Aiyenuro for organising and promoting the dinner itself. The guest list and menu can be found below.
If you are an alumnus/alumna of CUABC and would like to join us for next year's Alumni Dinner, please write to us expressing your interest using the digital form here.
Le Blanc du Grand Barrail, Ctes du Blaye (France 2016)
Montepulciano d'Abruzzo "Il Faggio" (Italy 2016)
Trio of Goat's Cheese with Dill Pink Peppercorns and Sesame seeds
Roast Rump of Lamb with Parsley Crust and Honey Roasted Shallots, Dauphinoise Potatoes and French Beans served with a Madeira Sauce
Passion Fruit Tart with Roasted Peanut Crumb served with Pistachio Ice Cream
Coffee and Club Mints
Jim Coke (+1)
John Lacy (+1)
Will Rees (+1)
Ben Blowes & Dolph
Kevan & Julie Murphy
Will Davies (+1)


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Book info: Controversies in Healthcare Innovation: Service, Technology and Organization
Editors: Thomas Hoholm, Antonella La Rocca, Margunn Aanestad
This book examines healthcare innovation processes, shedding light on the controversies endemic to innovation, which make such processes notoriously challenging. While, in the heat of action, controversies may be seen as barriers to innovation, observations reported in this volume point to controversies also having an energizing role. Students and academics studying innovation, organization, and health management and economics will find this book a valuable read as it provides empirical case studies on innovation processes in practice. Controversies in Healthcare Innovation will also appeal to practitioners of health care management, innovation project managers and policy-makers in the health care sector.


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I am writing to provide an update of the move of the Institute and the Ursula Davidson Library to the new wing of the Anzac Memorial currently under construction in Hyde Park Sydney.
Negotiations with representatives of the Anzac Memorial Building Trust have progressed well and the Institute is on track to move its library and operations to the education and research centre under construction in the new wing of the Anzac Memorial around August/ September 2018.
For the first time in our 129 years of existence, the Institute will have a permanent home in a prestigious building in the centre of Sydney that will be accessible to our members and to the public.
The move of the Institute will present a number of challenges. As part of the Memorandum of Understanding with the Trust, we will need to “freeze” the library collection to ensure that it is free of silverfish and other vermin. We will also have to move the collection to the Anzac Memorial and to purchase a purpose built compactus to house the library collection.
We anticipate that we will need to raise around $125,000 to purchase a compactus, to freeze the collection and to move the library.
The Institute has embarked on a major fund raising program over the next several years. We are approaching members, philanthropists, commercial and other organisations for donations.
To date, many members have been very generous in making donations to the Institute’s tax deductible Library Gift Fund. In addition, we have received a generous donation from a philanthropist.
For a report on progress with getting the library ready for the move, please refer to the section “Library Update”
I will keep you updated on progress of the move of the Institute to the Anzac Memorial.
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My greatgrandfather Michael Mock (1841-1921) was of pure German ancestry. I have several other pictures of him, one as a smooth-faced newlywed, and others showing him, with beard, in an old-fashioned black hat and clothes. In the latter pictures, he looks very much like an Amish or Mennonite farmer, but he was neither. He was descended from Lutherans who came to America in the mid 18th century from southwest Germany, and from their children who passed through southwest Ohio before arriving as early settlers around Oaklandon, Indiana. His mother's family were Pennsylvania Dutch (that is, German-speaking settlers in Pennsylvania), but his father's family came from Georgia and North Carolina.
Though there are many spelling variations, the name Mock (Mauk, Mack, Maag, etc.) is a common one in Germany. There is an excellent group of helpful genealogists organized around the surname(s) that can be reached through the home page of the Mock Family Historian. ( Click here for other Mock family links.)
My progenitor Mock emigrant to America was eighteen-year-old Thomas Mock (or Mackh, 1733-1807), who came around 1750 from Swabia in Wurtemberg, Germany to settle near the Savannah River, in Effingham County, GA. I learned about this Thomas Mock from a short genealogical monograph by Carol and H. A. Scott titled Michael Winecoff: The Early Years in America, which my second cousin Rada Greenlaw found for me in the public library of Mocksville, NC. That Michael Winecoff became Thomas Mock's father-in-law, and may also have been his uncle or cousin by marriage.
According to the Scott monograph, a group of 157 Swabian Wurttembergers, including Michael Winekauf and Thomas Mackh, sailed to America in the late summer of 1751on a British ship named Antelope, and settled 25 miles up the Savannah River. Almost 20 years earlier, a community of other German Lutherans from Salzburg had already settled there in the community of Ebenezer, around the Jerusalem Evangelical Lutheran Church. The Swabians formed the Bethany Colony of Georgia. The British motive in settling German families in Georgia was to create a kind of buffer zone of German settlers between the Spanish-held lands in Florida and the English settlers in Virginia and the Carolinas. Most of the Swabian emigrants came from near the city of Ulm. The Mocks in the group were probably from the nearby town of Langenau.
The group of Swabians was led by William Gerard de Brahms, a military engineer, map maker, surveyor, and convert from Catholicism to Protestantism. As a convert, he faced employment problems with the Catholic government in power in Swabia at that time, and it is thought that is the reason he organized the group of Lutheran emigrants. Michael Winekauf (later Winecoff, but misspelled Winekraft in the earliest record) was one of the seven "elders" of the group of "fifty four men, forty six women, twenty seven boys and thirty girls." On August 12, 1751, the elders met with the Trustees of the Georgia Colony in London seeking to join a group of protestant from Salzburg that had already settled there. The Trustees agreed, and, as was standard practice, promised to give 50 acres of Georgia land to each male in the group over 21. They sailed from London in late August, and arrived in late October. The minister of the Ebenezer Lutheran Church in Georgia was a prominent abolitionist, the Rev. Martin Bolzius, who wrote back to London with his impressions that the Swabian arrivals were "honest, well behaved and industrious," but "mostly poor, having paid away their money for passage and other necessaries of life." De Brahms surveyed land for the new settlers at a place called Blue Bluff, where they all moved in December, 1751. This place was about five miles further up the Savannah River from the previous Salzburger settlers.
Thomas Mock, b August 12, 1733, would have been 18 at the time the settlers came to Savannah. There were at least three other male Mocks in the group -- Bartholomew, Jacob and Wolfgang Mock. All four may have been brothers, and one or more of their sisters may also have been part of the group. The Scott monograph speculates: "The parents of this family seems not to have come with them, and it is possible Michael Winecoff acted as a sort of guardian or mentor to them." The Mocks and Winecoffs engaged in farming, and possibly also silk culture, there for about twenty years. Sons of Michael Winecoff married daughters of these Mocks, and Thomas Mock married Mary Winecoff, a daughter of Michael, who would have been a very young girl in 1751. Then, around 1770, "some from each family moved together to North Carolina ... Mocks still live in Effingham County, but there appear to have been no Winecoffs there after the 1820s ... When this happened is not known now, but was sometime between the marriage of Mary and Thomas in Georgia in April 1765, and the first recorded sale of land in North Carolina to Michael Winecoff in Cabarrus County (NC) by Samuel Suther in 1771." (US Census records show that Michael Winecoff also moved to the same area of North Carolina at about that same time.) The Scott monograph stops with the move to North Carolina leaving for a "later chapter" the "intriguing why" of the move north.
I once supposed the "why" may have been objection to slavery, given the abolitionist sentiments of their minister in Georgia, Rev. Martin Bolzius, but that seems not have been it, since their were negroes in their household in 1800 (see below), and those surely must have been slaves. North Carolina was an American frontier area in the latter half of the 18th century, and up until the opening of the Northwest Territory around the turn of the century. Thomas and Mary (Winecoff) Mock made their homestead in Cabarrus County near her father Michael and her older brother John Michael Winecoff, whose wife Barbara may also have been a Mock. There they raised a family of at least six children -- Thomas (II), Matthias, Michael, Margaret, Elizabeth, and Magdalene (Mary) Mock. In the book Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity (J. H. Beers & Co. 1908), Michael Mock's grandaughter Phoebe recalls that Michael had a brother named John Mock, but no other record of this John Mock has turned up. She may have been referring to Michael's brother-in-law John Conder, who married Margaret Mock in NC in 1799.
Ida (Kirkland) Boyce, a descendant of Thomas Mock (II) has done extensive research on the descendants of Michael's brothers Thomas (II) and Matthias. Thomas II fought in the War of 1812, and later moved back to Georgia. Matthias moved to Tennessee and then to Arkansas. Both have many descendants.
Not much else is known of their life of the Thomas Mock family during their North Carolina years, which included the years of the American Revolution. (There is one reference reporting that Thomas Mock of Cabarrus Co., NC, was a private in the Revolutionary army, but this has not been verified.) North Carolina saw a lot of Rev. War action in the early 1780s, so the Mock experiences then would probably be interesting if we knew it. Michael Mock, who was probably named for Michael Winecoff, and for whom my bearded great grandfather Michael Mock was named, was born in Cabarrus County, NC, just before the War, on Oct. 2, 1775.
The 1800 U.S. Census for Cabarrus County has the following entry for the Thomas Mock household, on page #700:
MOCK, Thomas 00301-00101 03
The numbered code indicates three males between ages 16 and 25, one male over 45, 1 female 16 to 25, 1 female over 45, and 3 negros. From this, it appears three sons and one daughter were unmarried in 1800. (Daughter Mary Barbara Mock, b 3/24/1772, had died 11/7/1789 at age 17.) It also appears that the Mock family, in 1800, owned three slaves.
There were other Mocks by this time living in Rowan County, just to the north of Cabarrus County, as shown in the following census entries (# designates page numbers):
MOCK, Jacob # 374 12001-21010-00 MOCK, John # 367 00100-00100-00 MOCK, John # 444 21010-20010-00 MOCK, Philip # 367 31201-12010-09 MOCK, Widow # 375 01000-10001-02
The Jacob Mock in the above may have been the brother of Thomas Mock ,(I) and the John Mock on page 367 may have been the son of Thomas (I), but this is uncertain. The widow may have been of another of the original brother immigrants to Georgia.
The following Mock marriages from around 1800 are recorded for Rowan and Cabarrus Counties:
Cabarrus County Marriages MOCK, Mathias to SHAFFER, Leah 29 Jun 1803 MOCK, Thomas to KERTNER, Margaret 09 Sep 1807 CONTER, John to MACK, Margareth 26 March 1799 Rowan CountyMarriages HOUK, Felix to MOCK, Catharine 13 Jun 1793 MOCK, Jacob to GILL, Euly 12 Nov 1801 MOCK, Jacob to SPAUCH, Sally 17 Nov 1811 MOCK, John to GRAVES, Catheran 04 Oct 1790 MOCK, Michael to BEAVER, Barbara 01 Aug 1804 MOCK, Philip Jr to HOOVER, Christiona 15 Nov 1806
. Thomas Mock (I) died January 5, 1807. In September of that same year, Thomas Mock (II) married Margaret Kertner. An October 1979 letter from Mrs Carol S. Scott to the Librarian of the Davie County Library, Mocksville, NC, implies that Thomas (II) moved to Davies County, NC, and there founded the town of Mocksville, but this appears not to be so. It appears that Mocksville was named for other Mocks, not descended from the Savannah Mock/Weinkauf immigrants, but perhaps related to them through common ancestors in Germany (these connections have not been clearly established, though.
Of the other children of Thomas Mock Sr., I only know something of my ancestor Michael Mock I. According to his grandaughter, Phoebe Mock (sister of my great grandfather Michael Mock II), whose memories are recorded in Commemorative Biographical Record of Prominent and Representative Men of Indianapolis and Vicinity (J. H. Beers & Co. 1908): "He (Michael I) was married Aug. 2, 1804, to Anna Barbara Beaver, born May 15, 1787, and they removed between 1812 and 1815 to Butler County, OH, locating near Hamilton in the early settlement of the county."In the 1810 US Census, Michael Mock I is listed as head of a household in Rowan Co., NC, and brother Thomas Mock II as head of household in neighboring Cabbarus Co.. In the 1820 Census records, Michael Mock is probably the "Michael Mack" listed in Ross Twsp. of Butler County. This would have been just SW of the present city of Hamilton, OH. (The Michael Mock family living in Union Twsp. of nearby Clermont County in 1820 is from a different Mock line). In 1830, though, Census records show the family in St. Clair Twnsp. of Butler County. Anna Barbara (Beaver) Mock died Oct. 30, 1821, probably in Ross Township of Butler County, OH.
The application, dated August 1, 1804, for the marriage of Michael Mock (I) and Anna Barbara Beaver was found, copied and sent to me by my cousin Rada Greenlaw. The application is, more properly, a notice of a bond posted by Michael Mock and Davott Beaver (or Davolt Beaver -- the handwritten signature leaves some doubt) to guarantee that there was no reason to prohibit the marriage. The bond makes it appear that Davolt or Davott Beaver signator is Anna Barbara's father, but he was,instead, her brother-in-law. Her father was Henry Beaver (b 1752) whose daughter Betsey married Davolt Beaver a few years earlier. The Mock-Beaver marriage was in Rowan County, NC, which neighbors Cabarrus County on the north.
More on Anna Barbara's Beaver ancestors can be found in accompanying web pages.
Phoebe Mock's recollections in Commemorative Biographical Record continue with the biography of her grandfather Michael Mock I: "His children were: Elizabeth, born 5/25/1805; Thomas (III), 12/13/1806; Mary, 3/30/1808; Henry, 5/9/1810; Simeon, 12/1/1812, all in NC; Alexander, 6/15/1815; Nancy, 3/27/1818; and John, 6/1/1820. The latter three were born in Butler County, OH. All these came to Indiana, except Thomas, who died 2/3/1807 in NC." Michael Mock I never remarried, Elizabeth would have been 16 at the time her mother died, so maybe she did the woman's work in the household before the family's move to Oaklandon, IN. We can infer from the above that the family of Michael I moved from NC to OH sometime after 1807 (probably between 1812 and 1815), and census records (below), show they were in Ohio by 1820.
In the 1830 Census, the Michael Mock family appears in St. Clair Township of Butler County. The males in 1830 were: 1, 5-9; 1, 10-14; 2, 15-19; 1, 50-59. The females in 1830 were: 1, 10-14; 1, 20-29. St. Clair Twsp. is SE of Oxford and northeast of Hamilton in Butler County. It appears that between 1820 and 1830 Michael moved his family from Ross Twsp of Butler Co., OH, to Ripley Co., IN, then back to St. Clair Twsp, Butler Co., OH (see below).
A short biography of John Mock in The History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana (p 844) says: "John Mock was born June 1, 1820 in Butler County, Ohio. At the age of three years (i.e. in 1823) he went with his father to Ripley County, Indiana; lived there for three years and returned to Ohio; remained there until 1831, in which year he came to this township (Lawrence Twsp., Marion Co.) with his father (Michael Mock I)." My guess is that the death of Anna Barbara somehow precipitated the move to Indiana, and that the move back to Ohio was to join Beaver relatives or other friends in Butler County who could help care for or educate the young children of the family. (Bonnie Andrews has reported that Michael Mock lived near his brother, John, during the three years in Ripley Co., IN. Again, this may have been the brother-in-law John Conder who was named as an heir in the will of Thomas Mock II.)
The Phoebe Mock piece in Commemorative Biographical Record, etc. goes on to say: "Mr. Mock (Michael I) removed to near Germantown, Lawrence Township, Marion County, Indiana, where in 1832 or 1833 (in his late 50s) he entered land, taking up 80 acres for himself and giving each son $200 that they might enter 40 acres each. His daughters received a like amount. He built a hewed log house, one mile south of Germantown, which is still standing (i.e. in 1908), and there died in October, 1843, in the faith of the Lutheran church." Germantown, IN, was a small community on the south side of Fall Creek on the eastern border of Marion County. Michael Mock is buried in the Bills Cemetery, which is on a hill overlooking old Germantown, which is now flooded by Geist Reservoir; his sandstone slab gravestone was intact, leaning against a tree in 1989, but, according to my Uncle Samuel C. Mock, disappeared sometime before 1994.
The history of the other ancestors of my great grandfather Michael Mock II can be traced to Berks County, PA, before the Revolutionary War. Families with the German surnames of Schaeffer (variations of Shafer, Sheffer), Kraemer, Apple (or Oppel or Opfel) and Pickle (or Bickel) moved there in the several decades around 1750, probably for the same reasons as the Mocks and Winecoffs moved to Georgia -- because they wanted to escape religious discrimination in Germany, and because they wanted farmland. Pennsylvania was founded as a haven for the religiously persecuted, and the English colonialists around Philadelphia were happy to grant free land to make a buffer of German farmers between themselves and their enemies to the west -- the French and the Indians.
The following Apple and Pickle households appear in the 1790 Pennsylvania census for Berks County on the indicated pages:
APPLE, Anderw HEIDELBERG TWP # 035 APPLE, Andrew # 035 03 03 04 00 00 APPLE, Hanry # 038 02 01 05 00 00 APPLE, Henry PINEGROVE TWP # 038 APPLE, John # 038 01 03 05 00 00 APPLE, John PINEGROVE TWP # 038 PICKLE, Anthony # 034 01 03 03 00 00 PICKLE, Anthony HEIDELBERG TWP # 034 PICKLE, Tobias Sr. HEIDELBERG TWP # 034 PICKLE, Tobias, jun # 034 02 03 05 00 00 PICKLE, Tobias, sen # 034 01 00 01 00 00
Heidelberg Township is directly west of Reading, PA. I'm not sure how to decipher the 6 two-digit number code in these census records; it has something to do with the number of males and females of different ages, and it appears there are two digits per number; it may be, too, that only the males in the household were counted.
The Shaffer name was very common in Pennsylvania at that time. The Michael Mock II ancestor, Nicholas Shaffer, apparently lived near Nazareth, Northampton County, where the 1790 Pennsylvania system merely lists him and a possible relative as follows:
SHAFER, Frederick NAZARETH TWP # 177 SHAFER, Nicholas NAZARETH TWP # 177
Andrew Apple, Nicholas Schaeffer, Tobias Pickle, and probably many of their friends and neighbors, too, were veterans of the Revolutionary War who moved to the Centre County, PA, in the early 1790s, near the small modern communities of Madisonberg and Rebersburg. There they settled and cleared farms in the long, relatively isolated Brush Valley between Brush Mountain, on the south, and Nittany Mountain on the north. The Brush Valley name presumably referred to the brush that covered the valley before it was settled. The Col. Miles who had obtained the original grant of the valley, broke it up into farms in a lease-to-buy arrangement: One preserved purchase contract specified that the buyer was supposed to clear and plant the farm, plant orchards on it, build and maintain a road through the property, and pay in installments over a period of eight years. It may be that some buyers were able to pay for the land directly.
Brush Mountain separated Brush Valley from Penn's Valley, a similar community founded by the sons of William Penn. Brush Valley, about ten miles long and from one to two miles wide, is still good farmland. On p. 351of History of Centre County, PA, it says of it: "The first settlers were Pennsylvania Germans ... others must have been few in number and their stays short." Judging from the language of the church records, Brush Valley community was a German-speaking community, so it was probably only later, in southern Ohio, where the families began to speak English. On page 396 of the same reference, the following entries are selected from records of births & baptisms in Brush Valley, with the caveat that "Some of the names occur often in the old records, but they are inserted here only once, and with the date of their first appearance." The husband's name is first, then the wife's:
1792 Phillip Shinkle Julianna 1794 John Apple Catherine Andrew Apple Catherine Henry Apple Catherine Thomas Pickle Barbara Nicholas Schaeffer Julianna 1795 Stephen Bolander Margaret 1798 John Pickle Catherine 1799 Simon Pickle Catherine 1800 John Pickle Eva 1802 William Apple Catherine Jacob Kreamer Magdalena John A. Schaeffer Elizabeth 1803 Christian Pickle Magdalena John Pickle Maria 1804 John Pickle Suzanna Andrew Pickle Catherine Jacob Pickle Maria Magdalena Tobias Pickle Catherine John Schaeffer Eva
On page 224 of the same History, there is a biography of Captain John Adam Schaeffer, which says: "(Capt. Schaeffer) immigrated into Centre County in 1801... During the campaign of Trenton and Princeton, 1776-77, Capt. Benjamin Weiser was in command of a company of Associators under Col. James Potter, of which John Adam Schaeffer was second lieutenant ... Nicholas Schaeffer, Peter Hosterman, Tobias Pickle, and perhaps others who afterwards moved to Centre County, were privates in this company ... Nicholas and John Adam were brothers ..." The biography of Nicholas Schaeffer on the same page says: "(Nicholas) was one of the pioneer settlers, and may have come into (Brush Valley) as early as 1791 ... He owned what is now the Feidler farm, and it is related that on his arrival his household goods were unloaded under the spreading branches of a large oak , which afforded early shelter ... he purchased from Col. Miles. Mr. Schaeffer was born in Berks County in 1750; he died in 1825, aged 75. He had been twice married. There were 14 children, --- John Nicholas, Adam, George, Jacob, Juliana, Catherine, Eva, Rebecca, Susan, Mary, Sarah, Rachel, and Nancy."
In 1901 the Clermont Sun published short biographies of many Revolutionary veterans that had lived in Clermont County, OH. Among them was following short biography of Andrew Apple, which was reproduced in A. M. Witt's Clermont County Ohio Revolutionary War Veterans: "Andrew Apple was two years in the Pennsylvania Infantry Line, and came to the Territory of the Northwest in 1797, settling a little later near Olive Branch on a tract of 2,100 acres. He was an ancestor of the Clermont Apple family and died in 1817. He raised 11 children and gave each 150 acres ... The descendants of the Revolutionary Apple have intermarried with scores upon scores of old Clermont families." A biography of one of his many descendants, Rev. John W. Applewas published in Commemorative Biographical Record, etc. and includes the following additional information: "The family was founded in Centre County Pennsylvnia, and the named was pronounced Opple, and sometimes spelled Apple. In early days the Pennsylvania progenitor (i.e. Andrew) removed to Clermont County, OH, about 16 miles above Cincinnati, and there cleared a large farm on which he lived for many years ..." Andrew Apple's wife is not mentioned much in these biographies; she was Catherine (Kreamer) Apple, presumably from Berks County, PA. The Kreamer name is another common Pennsylvania Dutch surname, and Kreamers also were part of the Brush Valley community.Andrew Apple's estate, in the probate records of Clermont County dated Feb. 13, 1817, was divided among the following people, each of whom received $58.56: John Apple, Henry Apple, Andrew A. Apple, John B. Buckel, Stofel S. Apple, Peter Bolander, William W. Apple, Sally Troy, Peter Emery and Daniel Apple. These all appear to be sons and daughters of Andrew Apple, or husbands of his daughters.
Other Revolutionary War veterans were pioneer settlers in Brush Valley Pennsylvania. Notable among them were Stephen Bolander and Jacob Shinkle. Bolander's wife was the sister of Jacob Shinkle, and the two families settled on the land that is the present site of the small town of Rebersburg, PA, later (about 1800) moving together to the southwestern corner of Brown County, OH. Stephen Bolander's son Peter Bolander married Andrew Apple's daughter in Brush Valley, and moved with the Andrew Apple family to Clermont County. Other sons and daughters of Andrew probably came at the same time. At about that same time, Stephen Bolander and Jacob Shinkle each obtained similar large tracts of land in the part of Clermont County that later broke off to became Brown County. Another Bolander son, Christian, was the first husband of Casper Stoner's (my great-great grandfather's) wife Sariah Yates. Quite a large number of Bolanders, Shinkles, Pickles and Apples intermarried with McCords, Stoners, Days and others from Clermont and Brown counties, both there and later in the area around Oaklandon and McCordsville, Indiana.
One of the children of Andrew Apple that eventually came to Indiana was Christopher Apple, Sr.. His wife, whom he probably married in Brush Valley, was Juliana Schaeffer, daughter of ] Nicholas Schaeffer. His story is told in the Commemorative Biographical Record: "Three of (Andrew's) sons, John, Christopher and William, removed from Ohio to Marion County, Ind., in huge Conestoga wagons, and all settled with their families in Lawrence Township, entering heavily wooded land ... Christopher settled on a farm adjoining where the Mock farm is now located." (This farm would have been about where Indian Creek crosses the Pendleton Pike, State Road 67, on the west side of Oaklandon, IN.) "Here Christopher Apple entered 240 acres in the woods, and built for his home, a round log cabin. Later, he erected one of of hewed logs, which is still standing (in 1908), and here he lived until removing to the village of Oaklandon ... He married Julia Ann Shafer, who died on the farm Oct. 19, 1852. To them were born these children: Andrew S. , born 12/15/1795 in Centre County, PA; Christopher jr., 4/28/1807; John; Peter; Mary; Sarah; Elizabeth Mary, born in 1799 (the latter married George Pickle, Sr., and died 11/20/1861, aged 62 yrs., 9 months, 2 days); Catherine born 1813; Susan; Martha; Daniel, born in 1819."
The George Pickle Sr. who married Elizabeth Mary Apple must have been born in Brush Valley, and then moved to Clermont County with his parents. I haven't found any record of their marriage in Clermont County, but not all marriages in Clermont County at that time were recorded. I suspect George was probably the grandson of Rev. War soldier Tobias Pickle, but this isn't certain. He may have been the son of the various Pickles mentioned earlier in the church records of Brush Valley, or of the Thomas Pickle, who is mentioned in the History of Centre County, Pa: "John Schall came to Brush Valley in 1807. He bought what is now the Schall place from Thomas Pickle. There was a distillery on the farm at the time, also a school house." (In 1803 there were 8 distilleries in 10-miles-long Brush Valley).
In any case, George and Elizabeth Mary Pickle came to Indiana either with or to join her brothers. They were the grandparents of Michael Mock II. The Phoebe Mock recollection printed in Commemorative Biographical Record says: "... Mary Pickle, born Oct. 27, 1818, in Clermont County, Ohio, daughter of George and Polly (Apple) Pickle, both of Brush Valley, PA." George Pickle died in a tree-felling accident soon after the family moved to Indiana, his daughter Mary Pickle (1818-1893) married Alexander Mock (1815-1901), son of Michael Mock I, and the widow Pickle remarried. My great grandfather Michael Mock II was the son of Alexander Mock and Mary Pickle.
Ron Stoner December 1995 Revised August 1999


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Reading List of Relevant Articles
Religious Will Inherit the Earth?': Demography, Religion and Politics
Longman, Philip. 2005. The Empty Cradle: How Falling Birthrates Threaten World Prosperity and What to do About it (New
York, N.Y.: Basic Books), chs. 4 and 6- [o/o]
Greeley, A. 2001. ‘The
demographic imperative in religious change in the United
States,’ American Journal of
Sociology, vol. 107, no. 2, pp. 468-500 – JSTOR
Adsera, A. 2005. Religion and Changes in Family-size Norms in
Developed Countries, IZA (University of Chicago: Population Research Center), presented at 2005 APSA meetings
– available electronically
*Adsera, A. 2005. ‘Marital
Fertility and Religion: Recent Changes in Spain,’ IZA Discussion Paper
1399 (University of Chicago: Population Research Center)
*Wattenberg, Ben. 2005. Fewer: How the New Demography of
Depopulation will Shape our Future (Chicago: Ivan R.
*Weiner, Myron and Sharon Stanton
Russell (eds). 2001. Demography
and National Security (New York: Berghahn Books), esp. ch. 12 (Islam & West) and conclusion
Van de Kaa, Dirk. 2001. ‘Postmodern fertility preferences: from changing value
orientation to new fertility behaviour,’ Population and Development
Review, vol. 27, pp. 290-331
and Ron Inglehart. 2005. Sacred and Secular: Religion and Politics Worldwide (Cambridge: CUP)
Sander, W. 1992. ‘Catholicism and the Economics of Fertility,’ Population
Studies 46, p.477-489.
*Simons, John. 1980.
‘Reproductive behaviour as religious practice’, in C. Hohn and R. Mackensen (eds.), Determinants of Fertility Trends: Theories Re-Examined (Liège: Ordina), pp. 133-45
Lesthaeghe, R. and J. Surkyn.
1988. ‘Cultural Dynamics and Economic Theories of Fertility Change,’Population and Development Review 14 (1): 1-45.
Fukuyama, Francis. 1992. The End of History and the Last Man
(Hamish Hamilton, London)
Hirschman, C. 2002. ‘Population and
Society: Historical Trends and Future
Prospects,’ unpublished paper
*Church Central. 2003. ‘Survey finds church
attendance, party affiliation closely linked’, Church Central, 1 Dec <http://www.churchcentral.com/nw/s/template/Article.html/id/17590>
*Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life.
2006. Religion and Public Life: A
Faith-Based Partisan Divide, special report, (Washington, DC: Pew Center, January 2006 )
*Hout, M. and Claude Fischer.
2002. ‘Why More Americans Have No Religious Preference: Politics and
Generations,’ American Sociological Review, vol. 67, no. 2 (April), pp. 165-90 – [e journals]
Williams, L.B. and B.G. Zimmer. 1990. ‘The Changing Influence of Religion on US Fertility: Evidence
from Rhode Island,’ Demography 27 (3): 475-481.
Roof, Wade Clark and William McKinney. 1987. American Mainline
Religion: Its Changing Shape and Future (New Brunswick: Rutgers University