In a message dated 4/16/01 9:34:34 PM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: > Could it be that our "Northern" GEIGERS were mostly from Germany, period - > although with some of them having Swiss roots a generation or two back > (having emigrated earlier) - and thus would pronounce the name that way? Anne- Well, my Northern Geigers were from Lembach, Alsace, France. <g> Joan