Jacob (Baerg) Berg was born in 1777 possibly in Holland. He married twice and had 17 children. Eventually the family ended up in Russia before several children moved to the United States and Canada. Information on many of the descendants who live in Canada and through out the United States is given in this volume.
The immigrant ancestor, Dave (David) Good (1747?-1841), the son of James Good and Barbara Berry, was born in Ferry Port on Craig, Fife, Scotland. He married 1781 on Long Island, New York, Jane? They were parents of nine children. Oldest child, Elizabeth, was born in New York, N.Y. As loyalist refugees family moved from Long Island to Saint John, New Brunswick in 1783. The rest of their children were born in Kingsclear, N.B. The patriarch of this family was Thomas Guid of Balmerino, Fife, Scotland. He was born ca. 1605/1610. His wife was Euphan Goslen. Their children changed the surname Guid into Good. Descendants live in New Brunswick, British Columbia, Ontario and elsewhere in Canada and also in Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Vermont, New Jersey, Florida and elsewhere.
The largest single collection of published source material on the Russian Mennonites available today, these seven volumes include much genealogical and historical data on the Mennonite Kleine Gemeinde in Man., Nebr., and Kans. (604pp. index. D.F. Publications, 1990.)
The Anabaptist Vision, given as a presidential address before the American Society of Church History in 1943, has become a classic essay. In it, Harold S. Bender defines the spirit and purposes of the original Anabaptists. Three major points of emphasis are: the transformation of the entire way of life of the individual to the teachings and example of Christ, voluntary church membership based upon conversion and commitment to holy living, and Christian love and nonresistance applied to all human relationships.
Within the last few decades, arachnology in the Neotropical region has experienced a great development filling the knowledge gap in one of the most diverse regions of the world. Nevertheless, large geographical areas remain poorly sampled, especially within the Amazon, and new genera and species have been continuously discovered, even in urban areas. In congruence with the recent improvements in research, several aspects of the ecology, behaviour and natural history of spiders, such as interactions with other predators and parasitoids, social interactions, dispersal patterns, habitat requirements, mating behaviors, among others, are being carefully investigated. These recent contributions incorporate substantial information on the preexisting knowledge on these subjects every year. Our main objective with this book is to present a summary on these new researches and on the currently knowledge on the main subjects involved in the general theme, emphasizing the contribution of the rich fauna of the Neotropical region to the research of behaviour and ecology of the spiders.