More from my miracle worker friend.... Source: _Rhineland Emigrants_; ed. Don Yoder; Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc.; Baltimore; 1981; p. 125. [* means stick two dots over the "o".......] BASINGER (BASICKER, BOSIGER*, BOESIGER) 1759 Mennonite family from Attiswil, Ct. Bern, reported in Montbeliard [acute slash over "e"], Alsace (BA 89); other Bosiger families (BA 91-158 passim) "Christian Bosiger*", from Rumisberg, Ct. Bern, left Normanvillars, Alsace, aged 23, in New York, June 1819, to Lancaster County; 1825 to Waterloo County, Ontario; 1836 to Putnam County, Ohio (BA 133, 147). Other families in Ohio 1824 and 1838 (MC 19; BA 145, 156). Swiss forms BOESIGER* (cf. HBLS, Supplement p. 28). ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ The chapter was titled "Swiss Mennonite Family Names: An annotated checklist" by Leo Schelbert and Sandra Luebking. BA= Gratz, Delbert L. _Bernase Anabaptists and Their American Descendents_. Scottsdale, Pa.: Herald Press, 1953. HBLS= Historich-Biographisches Lexikon der Schweiz- 7 vols. + supplement; Nuenburg: Administration des Historich-Biographisches Lexikons, 1921-1934. MC= Mennonite Cyclopedic Dictionary_. Scottsdale, Pa.: Mennonite Publishing House, 1937.