Amy, I would love to see that display on Gen. Geiger at the Orange Park library. In my attempt to be brief, I neglected to say that Col. Roger Willock's biography of him is a "must read" - other than the "ancestor" part starting on page 26. The stories about Middleburg, FL, and his early years there are extremely interesting. Written in 1968 (and reprinted in 1983 by the Marine Corps Ass'n.), the book is a goldmine for lovers of history and those who created it, the military, flying ..... read it - you'll love it!! The author did comment that the General considered his early life too prosaic to be of interest to others, although he was "an enthusiastic promoter of the State". He went on to say there were few records or close relatives surviving, but that "despite these restrictions, the basic information pertaining to his family background can readily be determined from such sources as are currently available." I'm just curious to know the source of his story about Roy's ancestors - that "of Austrian descent they had set foot ashore on one of Wm. Penn's proprietory land grants along the Delaware River about 1690" ..... that they didn't like the Alpine-like winters of the Philadelphia region, so by the early 1700s, began to migrate southward from PA and DE along the Atlantic Coast through the Carolinas to Georgia ..... then crossed the border into Eastern Florida during the first quarter of the nineteenth century. We know Roy's lineage goes back to Abraham GYGER, who brought his family from SWT to Charleston, SC, in 1737 ..... but is there a germ of truth in the above story? Were the northern and southern GEIGERS related? Had GYGERS been migrating from Switzerland for centuries - perhaps to Germany for a gen. or so and then on to America with their Swiss cousins? Had a branch lived in Austria? Records show that at least some of the refugee ships landing at Charleston continued on to PA. When our SC cousins threatened to "remove to PA" if they didn't get the promised schools and churches, did they intend to join kinsmen there? Much food for thought! Anne C.