Since the question has come up today, perhaps it's time to mention the Percy Geiger book, titled "The Geigers of South Carolina." This is a generally-helpful source, and I believe that the reprint is still available. A more-precise title would have been "The Subset of Geigers of South Carolina Who Happen to Be Descended from Herman Geiger." Herman wasn't the only game in town! He had two brothers, four surviving sisters, and four cousins, and nearly all of them left descendants in the region and elsewhere. By the late summer of 1737, 13 Rheintaler households who had arrived on the ship Prince of Wales on 1 Feb 1735 had settled in Saxegotha SC. Of those 13 households, 5 were Geigers (counting in-laws). This was a very large addition to the tiny Swiss settlement at Saxegotha, and more than doubled its population, nearly tripled it. Not surprisingly, one can find a lot of Geiger traces--and multiple documents--during the early years of the Saxegotha settlement. Of course, they were prominent in Saxegotha: there was hardly anybody else there. Harriet Imrey himrey@ntelos.net