This is a quick dip in the pond with a fishing rod! Has anyone got FISCHER ancestry in the 1700s? I don't have a specific person, just scrawled notes on a roughly drawn family tree mentioning that the next generation back was a FISCHER. Since Ive been stuck on this generation for years, I started to wonder if it might be worth a stab further back. I did find some FISSCHERs in the Bristol Calendar of Wills in 1400s so they were about, but haven't quite got that far back yet!!!!! LOL It looks to be a German variant, does anyone know if this perhaps was the accepted spelling much earlier? Amanda Kerby Christhcurch