Another problem that folks should be aware of is, this Website draws from and had a link to the Burval site, which is rife with known errors...I complained so much that they finally de-linked the Burval site...which puts out erroneous information tentamount to fabrications...very little is documented...but it boasts a "disclaimer" to the lack of documentation...It has caused multiple folks to go off half-cocked... >From: "Connell" <[email protected]> >Reply-To: [email protected] >To: [email protected] >Subject: [GEIGER] Weberites--JOHN GEIGER >Date: Wed, 15 Nov 2000 01:50:57 -0500 > >Interesting site, Joan ... but I can't agree with her statement that the >infamous "John GEIGER" - whom no one else has been able to identify - is >"Saxe Gotha Neighbor John Jacob GEIGER". There were at least three of that >name in the area - the old Governor, his son and his nephew - and all would >likely have been called "Jacob", not "John". It is difficult to sort them >out, but they shouldn't be lumped together as one man and called murderer! >And there were several John GEIGERs. > >The Weberite scenario played out in 1761. The records show that in 1737, >former Cantonal Gov. Hans Jacob GYGER (b. 1679) and his brother Abraham >GYGER (b. 1687) brought their families to SC from SWT, becoming GEIGER. >Hs. >Jacob had sons Herman (b. 1707), Hs. Heinrich (b. 1713 - perhaps the >"Henry" >in records), and Hs. Jacob (b. 1720). Abraham had sons Hs. Jacob (b. >1718), >Johannes [John] (b. 1721) and Hs. Ulrich (b. 1730). > >Gov. Hs. Jacob's oldest son Herman had sons John Conrad (b. SWT), Jacob >(prob. b. SWT), Herman (b. 1738, SC) and John (b. 1748, SC). But we don't >know every child the other cousins might have produced and there are other >male names we can't identify. > >I assume most of the young cousins grew up and married in SC. Abraham's >son, Johannes, prob. is one of the "John GEIGERs" found in SC records. In >1766, his younger brother Hans Ulrich (b. 1730) applied for permission to >remove his family (wife, three ch. and one slave) to GA "for the purpose of >farming". Did Johannes/John go with them? > >When Herman's son John Conrad GEIGER died in 1772 in SC, his widow Barbara >MURFF and his brother John GEIGER were co-executors. Percy GEIGER and the >Herman GEIGER Memorial both show brother John (1748-1817) married to Ann >MURFF [m. 1767] and with five children. Another source said this John (no >dates given) married Emily MURFF and that their only child was Emily >GEIGER, >the Rev. War heroine (b. ca. 1762). > >This is not an easy family to figure out! > >Anne C. > > >-----Original Message----- >From: [email protected] <[email protected]> > > > >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 > > > > > > > > > > >==== 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 > _________________________________________________________________________ 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.