http://users.ev1.net/~jgallman/genealogy/frames1.htm To Warren and all on List, including our PA cousins: I just did a search on Findia and came up with this GALLMAN web site. He doesn't guarantee its accuracy, but you should look at it. It has a wonderful and quite long letter written in 1737 by Jacob GALLMAN of Saxe Gotha, SC, to someone in his home town of Mettmenstetten, SWT. He mentions several other families and drops a lot of names. Notes that "Pensillfanen" [PA] is 200 hours [north] by water and by land. The letter goes into great detail about their trip over and about their wonderful life in SC - he even comments that "wheels need no brakes." I couldn't find that village, but he says his son Heiri has "a wife from the Rheinthal" - which means the Rhein (Rhine) Valley. This might mean his village is elsewhere, maybe up in the mts. His spelling of well-known places like Saxe Gotha and Charleston is so wild that I really wonder if the translator was having trouble with that early script - plus, there are some typos. The letter was sent with a cover letter from his son telling the recipient that his father had died very suddenly, but he was sending the letter on. It's terribly poignant. There is a GEIGER line that starts with Hans GEIGER and Anna ZÛST and comes down to Herman. He gives Herman two wives. Says he and first wife, Elizabeth HABLÜZEL had Elizabeth GEIGER who married Capt. Henry GALLMAN (b. 1709, Mettmenstetten, SWT). He says she was also born there, but I would strongly question that if it isn't close to Diepoldsau! Interestingly, he says she is buried in Charleston, in the German Lutheran Church Cemetery. I won't go into the rest of it - best you read it yourselves. Anne C.