Hi List When I first started researching my Carpenter ancestry, I ran into a plethora of German names in the Carpenter lines. I was only able to keep my lines straight because of the Biblical names in my ancestry. I then discovered that when the Germans came into Philadelphia, their names were changed to Carpenter, because that is what Zimmerman translates into. Thus, there are almost as many Zimmermans in the USA as Carpenters! Dick Carpenter Past President Benjamin Cleveland Chapter TNNSAR Direct descendant of Jeremiah Carpenter, a soldier in the Battle of Point Pleasant, the first officially recognized battle of the American Revolution Also known as Lord Dunmore's War thecarponline2@msn.com