Sorry, I didn't know. Walter John Kiger [email protected] wrote: > Walter, > > Had a good laugh. That's my sister. > > Maggie Kyger Miller > ([email protected]) >

Walter, Gosh, only thought it was funny because everywhere I go on the internet looking for Kyger's she shows up. And there she was again--on EBay! Maggie Kyger Miller ([email protected])

Maggie, Thought you might also be interested in this http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=484045222 Walter John Kiger [email protected] wrote: > Joan, > > I put in a bid and will make sure I get it. > > Maggie Kyger Miller > ([email protected]) >

Walter, Had a good laugh. That's my sister. Maggie Kyger Miller ([email protected])

Gloria, >Will you share info you obtain from the E-Bay Geiger item Always and absolutely. Maggie Kyger Miller ([email protected])

This was forwarded to me by a Kiger cousin--I'm passing it along to the list. Joan Subj: Henrich Geiger - Lutheran family of Charleston Date: 11/1/00 3:03:25 PM Eastern Standard Time From: [email protected] (Valerie N. Caulfield) To: [email protected] (Joan Young) I never know if it's worthwhile to send you any of this stuff I stumble into - 9 times out of 10, you've already seen it. Anyway, I found this of interest. Maybe you sent me the article in the first place? Found among my piles of files. Val "Strangers Within the Realm: Cultural Margins of the First British Empire;" Edited by Bernard Bailyn and Philip D.Morgan Published for the Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia by the University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill and London p255 "Charleston's role as a center for German-speaking cultural brokers who emerged from within this southern orbit could never come close to matching Philadelphia's of course. Halle's ties with Ebenezer, Georgia, to cite but one reason, had developed in the 1730s, a generation earlier than the corresponding merchant network connecting Charleston to the Reich. By the 1740s, this settlement on the Savannah River, populate by Salzburgers and increasingly, Wurttemberg Lutherans, successfully exported lumber to the West Indies and silk for reexport to Halle and ground grain for settlers from Augusta to the Georgia coast. Nonetheless, eminent Charleston Lutherans like Michael Kaltheisen and the Henry Geiger and David Sailer families did emerge, along with a prosperous small group of German artisans in the town who owned plantations in the low country and as far west as the Lexington district and at Saxe Gotha. I'm looking still, there's another part in here that suggests this Henry had kinfolk in Philadelphia - but that's about it. At least the family name got mentioned a couple of times. <g> Another gleaning from the same piece, of general genealogical interest: p263-4 The inheritance of family property among German-Americans had been guaranteed by German principalities and cities in part because of the system of manumission dues imposed upon emigrants. Those dues were calculated upon the value of the real and movable property they held in the village or that would fall to them in the future. Emigrants were thus reminded that they would be future lawful heirs to familial property in the villages after they left. And they did not forget, once in America. Philadelphia and Charleston, distribution points for German culture within the British world, were also conduits through which the value of property inherited from kin and family in the Old World could be collected an redistributed in North America. Beginning slowly in the 1740s and increasing steadily for another forty years, the recovery of these inheritances further guaranteed for the clergy and merchants their role as cultural brokers. Most needed little encouragement, eager as they were to sustain their own professions for enterprises. These leaders simultaneously supported their own community standing and helped to develop German Speakers' comprehension of Anglo-American legal and political subtleties. The recovery of inheritances tended ot include many more people than the relatively few directly involve. Comparing the names of emigrants from a particular region with those making requests for recovery, a cautious guess can be made about the prevalence of the practice. That most attempts occurred between the 1740s and the 1770s suggests that the members of the family groups that characterized migration before the Seven Years' War -those who had been at least marginal property holders before emigrating - were those who pursued recovery. Scattered instances occurred in the South Carolina, but most claims, even from New Your or New Jersey, went through Philadelphia. ......which means if these guys (the authors) saw them, they've got to be around, hmmm?

Maggie - Will you share info you obtain from the E-Bay Geiger item with members of the Geiger List? Part of my Geiger line hails from the Pennsylvania area and I would be most interested in learning if there is any mention of my family. And, I am also interested in what Darmstadt information might be included. Thank you. Marcia (Geiger) Boggs

In a message dated 11/1/00 12:41:21 PM Eastern Standard Time, [email protected] writes: > I put in a bid and will make sure I get it. Thanks, Maggie! Joan

Joan, I put in a bid and will make sure I get it. Maggie Kyger Miller ([email protected])

A friend sent me this item in case anyone is interested. > Original BRUBAKER genealogy Family Files: "This file contains the > personal research of Byrle MacPherson, a genealogical researcher and a > resident of Gettysburg (Adams County) PA. For years from the 1940s thru > the 1970s (at least) she performed genealogical research. Her area of > interest expanded beyond Adams County to include Franklin County, > Cumberland County, Berks County, Montgomery County, and more. This file > folder is marked Mrs. Sue Brubaker, Descendants. Surnames: STAPLETON, > DRUMHELLER, FRY, MILLER, GEIGER, HENKEL, SPECHT, DELP, SENSENDERFER, > BINDER, BOYER, LEENHART. Place names: Alsatia; Montgomery Co, PA; > Wurtemberg; Falkner Swamp; Darmstadt; Lewisburg, Union Co, PA; England; > Oley, Berks Co, PA; Germany; Ittlingen; Karls Ruhe-Baden; New Hanover, > PA." Click to see: > > http://cgi.ebay.com/aw-cgi/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=485234853 Joan

--part1_af.28eb638.2731a57d_boundary Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit --part1_af.28eb638.2731a57d_boundary Content-Type: message/rfc822 Content-Disposition: inline Return-Path: <[email protected]> Received: from rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (rly-zc05.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.5]) by air-zc04.mail.aol.com (v76_r1.23) with ESMTP; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:25:11 -0500 Received: from lists6.rootsweb.com (lists6.rootsweb.com [63.92.80.125]) by rly-zc05.mx.aol.com (v76_r1.19) with ESMTP; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:24:43 -0400 Received: (from [email protected]) by lists6.rootsweb.com (8.10.1/8.10.1) id e9VINtP00959; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:23:55 -0800 Resent-Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:23:55 -0800 X-Original-Sender: [email protected] Tue Oct 31 10:23:54 2000 From: [email protected] Message-ID: <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 13:23:48 EST Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Old-To: [email protected] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Disposition: Inline X-Mailer: Unknown sub 171 Resent-Message-ID: <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Resent-From: [email protected] Reply-To: [email protected] X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/4114 X-Loop: [email protected] Precedence: list Resent-Sender: [email protected] we just returned home from visiting our daugther in Athens. We went to a little town called Helen, which we loved and met a man in one of the shops.I think he said his father was named Paul Geiger from Framers Branch, Texas. His name was Steve and we think our families are connected.I forgot to mention we were in Georgia, and the name of his shop is Wildewood. He would fit right in with my husband and his dad Olin .If you can help me it would be great DBG ==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== Check out our GEIGER homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~geiger/ ============================== Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com --part1_af.28eb638.2731a57d_boundary--

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we just returned home from visiting our daugther in Athens. We went to a little town called Helen, which we loved and met a man in one of the shops.I think he said his father was named Paul Geiger from Framers Branch, Texas. His name was Steve and we think our families are connected.I forgot to mention we were in Georgia, and the name of his shop is Wildewood. He would fit right in with my husband and his dad Olin .If you can help me it would be great DBG

This was just sent to me. It may have been posted to the list before, but since I'm not sure so I'll repost it. Joan URL: http://www.weberites.com TITLE: THE WEBERITE HERESY OF SAXE GOTHA IN THE CAROLINA DESCRIPTION: A CONTROVERSIAL RELIGIOUS CULT (1758-1761)LED BY JACOB WEBER, KNOWN AS THE WEBERITES, AT THE GERMAN-SWISS 18TH CENTURY SETTLEMENTS OF SAXE GOTHA & DUTCH FORK, SC. ENDED WITH THE MURDERS OF JOHN GEORGE SCHMIDTPETER (SMITHPETER), MICHAEL HENTZ, & FREDERICK DAUBER. JACOB WEBER WAS CONVICTED & HANGED. HANNAH WEBER, JOHN GEIGER, & JACOB BOURGHARDT WERE CONVICTED, SENTENCED TO DEATH, THEN GRANTED REPRIEVES. SITE IS DEVOTED TO THE UNDERSTANDING & EXPLORATION OF THE CULT, ITS FOUNDERS, ITS MEMBERS, AND RELATED EVENTS OF THE DAY.

<A HREF="http://www.researchonline.net/catalog/dickison.htm">Dickison and his Men</A> http://www.researchonline.net/catalog/dickison.htm "One of the few surviving first hand accounts of the Civil War in Florida is Dickison and His Men. As the 2nd Cavalry Regiment, Major Dickison led his men throughout the war in the area of Jacksonville. Many of the men who served under Maj. Dickison were from South Georgia and South Carolina." Geiger, John Geiger, J. Geiger, W. - Bugler. Geiger, Wm. Miss Désirée de Nantes <[email protected]>

My husband and I just want to thank you all for your warm wishes. The repair job on his shoulder went well and he's doing just fine. Dick also asked me to tell you that the Clearfield Co. is having another of its liquidation sales and "The Ebenezer Record Book 1754-1781", by George F. Jones & Sheryl Exley, is reduced from $25.00 to $9.50. The sale runs until 15 Jan 2001, but I wouldn't wait too long if you really want the book. P/H is $3.50 (1st bk), then $1.25 each add. The sale is on their online site at http://www.GenealogyBookShop.com/ Don't leave off the www, or you will get FamilyTreeMaker.com. (it's downright spooky)! Try browsing through "Family Histories" - lots of good titles. Snail mail goes to: Clearfield Co., Inc., 200 E. Eager St., Baltimore, MD 21202. Ph.: (410) 625-9004. Anne C.

It's a lovely article, Nancy, and we do have RootsWeb to thank. I still marvel at how quickly we all bonded from the minute we met! Now I wish we ALL could meet - including our cousins to the north! To all - sorry if I've seemed a little distracted lately ... the injury to my husband's shoulder in England last July turns out to be a torn rotator cuff and torn ligament. He's been in a LOT of pain. He will have surgery tomorrow a.m. Anne C. -----Original Message----- >CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. > >On behalf of many of my very distant cousins, I want to send a >letter of appreciation to RootsWeb for being instrumental in >bringing several of us together for a reunion, or I probably >should say for a meeting, as we had never met in person. > >The GEIGER list on RootsWeb is a very active list, and through >it a number of us GEIGERs decided to meet over the Labor Day >weekend for the Salzburger Society meeting at Ebenezer in >Georgia, where our common ancestor lived. There is an active >Lutheran church at Ebenezer, which was organized in 1733 and the >building, which is still being used for services, was completed >in 1769. There is also a museum there, which is run by members >of the Salzburger Society. This was once a thriving community, >which established the first orphanage in Georgia and even, for >a time, had a silk industry. Now, the church, museum, old >restored houses, cemetery, and a conference center are there. > >We felt as though we already knew each other, but we had only >conversed through RootsWeb. It was a delightful experience >actually to meet face to face and to learn even more about our >ancestors. We toured a cemetery on Fort Stewart, where my >great-grandfather and his three wives are buried (the first two >died soon after childbirth, and the third outlived him). We were >only allowed to tour one cemetery as the Army was holding >maneuvers that weekend, and we were fortunate to be riding in a >four-wheel drive vehicle in order to traverse the deeply rutted, >very muddy roads. > >We later attended the Labor Day festivities at Ebenezer, and we >had a great time. One couple came from Florida, one man came >from Texas (and he spells his name GIEGER and pronounces it like >GIGGER), and we went from Tennessee. We all had a common >ancestor, and truly felt a kinship. > >Thank you, RootsWeb, for making this gathering possible. > Nancy Geiger Ford [email protected] > >Previously published by RootsWeb.com, Inc., RootsWeb >Review: RootsWeb's Genealogy News, Vol. 3, No. 43, 25 October >2000. RootsWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/

For those who don't subscribe to the RootsWeb Review I thought you might be interested in readin the following from tonight's issue. Thanks, Nancy! Joan CONNECTING THROUGH ROOTSWEB. Thanks for sharing your stories. On behalf of many of my very distant cousins, I want to send a letter of appreciation to RootsWeb for being instrumental in bringing several of us together for a reunion, or I probably should say for a meeting, as we had never met in person. The GEIGER list on RootsWeb is a very active list, and through it a number of us GEIGERs decided to meet over the Labor Day weekend for the Salzburger Society meeting at Ebenezer in Georgia, where our common ancestor lived. There is an active Lutheran church at Ebenezer, which was organized in 1733 and the building, which is still being used for services, was completed in 1769. There is also a museum there, which is run by members of the Salzburger Society. This was once a thriving community, which established the first orphanage in Georgia and even, for a time, had a silk industry. Now, the church, museum, old restored houses, cemetery, and a conference center are there. We felt as though we already knew each other, but we had only conversed through RootsWeb. It was a delightful experience actually to meet face to face and to learn even more about our ancestors. We toured a cemetery on Fort Stewart, where my great-grandfather and his three wives are buried (the first two died soon after childbirth, and the third outlived him). We were only allowed to tour one cemetery as the Army was holding maneuvers that weekend, and we were fortunate to be riding in a four-wheel drive vehicle in order to traverse the deeply rutted, very muddy roads. We later attended the Labor Day festivities at Ebenezer, and we had a great time. One couple came from Florida, one man came from Texas (and he spells his name GIEGER and pronounces it like GIGGER), and we went from Tennessee. We all had a common ancestor, and truly felt a kinship. Thank you, RootsWeb, for making this gathering possible. Nancy Geiger Ford [email protected] Previously published by RootsWeb.com, Inc., RootsWeb Review: RootsWeb's Genealogy News, Vol. 3, No. 43, 25 October 2000. RootsWeb: http://www.rootsweb.com/

I don't know but I'll go to our archive's and find out who his parents are! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Gerald Gieger" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, October 21, 2000 12:06 PM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Geiger's buried in Colorado Springs, Co. > Could this "Percy A." (bur 1929) be a descendant of the Percy who wrote > "Geiger's of South Carolina"??? > > > >From: "Cindi Johnson" <[email protected]> > >Reply-To: [email protected] > >To: [email protected] > >Subject: [GEIGER] Geiger's buried in Colorado Springs, Co. > >Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2000 11:26:03 -0600 > > > >Evergreen Cemetery: > > > >Geiger, Baby Girl bur. 2/11/1967 > > Bertha b. 1884 d. 1953 > > Dorothy T. b. 1898 > >Notes: n/d.date; bur w/George L. > > Frank A. bur. 6/3/1968 > > George L. b. 1893 bur. 11/12/1957 > >bur w/Dorothy T. > > James V. bur. 12/2/1961 > > Mary Bertha bur. 1/2181953 > > Mary Jennie Tisdale bur. 11/1381929 > > Percy A. bur. 10/12/1929 > > Tressie V. bur. 11/12/1958 > > > > > > > >==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > >To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list send an e-mail to: > >[email protected] (mail mode) or [email protected] > >(digest mode) and put only one word--either SUBSCRIBE or UNSUBSCRIBE in the > >subject and the body of the message. > > > >============================== > >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. > >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > > _________________________________________________________________________ > Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. > > Share information about yourself, create your own public profile at > http://profiles.msn.com. > > > ==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > Check out our GEIGER homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~geiger/ > > ============================== > The only real-time collaboration tool that allows you and other family > members to create a FREE, password-protected family tree. > http://www.ancestry.com/oft/login.asp > >