Jordan's history of the Diehls in Germany from 500 A.D. to 1850 revisited.

Epilogue II? . . . Why? . . . Some feedback about Epilogue was received: comments and questions, such as: (1) I don't really care anyhow . . . I like the history of the American Diehls. (2) I have Joyce's oil painting of the coat of arms hanging on a wall -- do I take it down? (3) I missed seeing it, as I was busy and didn't get a chance to read the page . . . what is all the fuss about? (4) Who was Jordan? (5) Any response from the societies about the Hendersons? For newcomers: In 1911 a book was published entitled COLONIAL FAMILIES OF PHILADELPHIA, John W. Jordan, Editor. Capt. Nicholas Diehl's family is featured; and also there is a lengthy accounting of their numerous descendants. George Diehl (a genealogist who has traced all the lines of Nicholas) and I undertook a monumental project encompassing many months: to determine the truth about Jordan's history of the Diehls in Germany from 500 A.D. to 1850: fact or fiction. What we discovered was quite shocking -- to us and to others. The original treatise consisted of the following pages: (1) GERMAN ROOTS (a verbatim extraction from FAMILIES, 500 A.D. - 1850), (2) Messages II, III, IV, (3) Timeline, (4) Nobility, (5) Speculation, (6) Questions, (7) Epilogue. A lot of searching! Rather than publish the pages as seen originally on the Internet, I chose this approach: (1) Page #1: Introduction, (2) #2: GERMAN ROOTS, (3) Messages II (I rewrote this, eliminating extraneous passages no longer relevant.), (4) Messages III, (5) Messages IV, (5) Timeline (Placed the Diehl and Teutonic timelines together: to illustrate that Jordan attached Diehl names vicariously to the Teutonic timeline, with the result that his history is downright silly, as it has inadequate documentation.), (6) Nobility, (7) Speculation, (8) Questions, (9) Epilogue. Long, I know, but possibly one might employ some reading skills here: a skipping of familiar pages, scanning, etc. Any new developments that may be forthcoming will be added: (10). Hope I have now satisfied everyone.