This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Wimmer, Wiemer Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/UW.2ADE/1829.1 Message Board Post: The first time the name Wimmer shows up in any of the records I've looked at is in 1920. The spelling Wiemer doesn't show up at all. In my early death index all the deaths reported in the 1860s came from newspapers not from county records. The earliest year I have any county recorded deaths is 1873. Mendocino County Indexes http://www.pacificsites.net/~pcarna Mendocino County Tombstone Photos http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~mendocem/