Thank you, Craig.
The book is AVAILABLE -- which is exciting. And it is ALMOST affordable -- and the digital copy format is so interesting -- I'm retired and trying to winnow down my thousands of books (wish more of them were genealogy (:-) Affordable digital books. 60 years late for me, but I'm catching up with technology!
I've benefitted from Lynn Messina's HIATT research, which she has checked using Johnson's Hiett-Hiatt book, and placed a lot of it on-line --
in fact, Lynn used this message board to connect my husband and me to his HIATT genealogy. Once we'd documented names and birth info and family stories back to his grandfather, Enos Riley Hiatt of Randolph County, Indiana -- Lynn matched us to the whole HIETT-HIATT line -- and we found COUSINS! Fourth, seventh, eighth, ninth -- it was exciting and kept us traveling for years.
Lynn introduced us to the Randolph county historical society -- through their combined efforts we found a FIRST cousin, ALIVE, in his 80's -- that Bob never knew about. Still living in Winchester, Indiana. Still attending the same Quaker Church as Grandfather Enos Hiatt.
We visited. Bob was 74 -- and he and Burt looked like brothers. Posture, stance, the way they moved their heads while talking, hand gestures -- sense of humor -- they had the same inherited engineering gift from their Grandfather Enos Hiatt -- even Burt's home workshop looked like Bob's (only neater -- Burt's wife was a MUCH better homemaker than I was/am (:-) They both had patents -- and Burt had FAMILY PHOTOGRAPHS -- a whole album, professional photos taken by Enos himself. And airbrushed, using his own invention, which predated (unpatented, secret) what we use today.
Thanks for the information -- and the chance to share good family-search memories with the message board.
YNK -- You Never Know where the path leads to which rainbows and interesting results.
Warm regards,
Karen@HiattFamily.com