Janet said: I was able to go back another 4 generations on one of my main lines and have come to NEWCOMER, which I have been led to believe is Swiss and Mennonite. This is the link to the Mennonite "Herald of Truth" obituary list: http://www.mcusa-archives.org/MennObits/index2.html You will find numerous Newcomer names listed, so Newcomer is a Mennonite surname. Also Newcomer was an Anabaptist name in Switzerland (Swiss Anabaptists took on the Mennonite label when they came to America). One book I have notes of the persecution of a "Taufer" Neukommet" family in the Thun district of Switzerland. Anabaptists were called "Taufer" in the German language. Bill Thomas