In a message dated 98-08-03 02:02:35 EDT, you write: > Have you ANY idea from where my line came ? "Kraichgau" appears on > no > map anywhere in Germany.....that I can find anyway..............Thank > you..........Take care ! D�sir�e, Northern Kraichgau would be about as good a guess as any. As I see it there are 3 basic possibilities for the origin of the Stokes County, NC Geiger/Kigers family. The first one would be the Northern Kraichgau and surrounding areas of Baden- Wuerttemberg. The reason the Kraichgau area might not be visible on a map is that it covers a region. It would be like saying you come from the "Piedmont" or the "Plains" or the "Panhandle" or something of that nature--it wouldn't be on a map as such but would represent an area. If you look at Heidelberg and then draw a line southeast to Heilbronn and then make a big circle of the land between the two it would come as close to describing where the Kraichgau is located as I can tell you in a text message. There were 86 villages or Gemarkungen within the Kraichgau in the early 1700s, and those villages comprise the villages many of our early "Pennsylvania Dutch" ancestors emigrated from. And most of the early Colonial Geigers (with the exception of the South Carolina Geigers) can correctly be called Pennsylvania Dutch (with the Dutch part standing for Deutsch or any Germanic people). I don't claim to be an expert on the geography of Germany in the 1700s--so please anyone feel free to correct me in this if I make a misstatement--but I think most, if not all, towns within the Northern Kraichgau would show up on official records as being in Baden-Wuerttemberg. The second possible area of emigration for the Colonial Geigers to PA would have been Switzerland. Many of the emigrants from the Kraichgau actually were originally Swiss but some came directly FROM Switzerland itself. The third area would be Northern Alsace, France, which is adjacent to both the southwestern area of Germany where the Kraichgau is located and also to Switzerland. The problem with attempting to pinpoint exactly where a given family emigrated from is that you really do need to have some sort of clue as to WHERE you should be looking. It would be an impossible task to examine ALL church and civil records for the vast areas mentioned above and even the LDS records are far from complete for many of these areas--especially Switzerland. That said--if I were trying to figure out where the North Carolina Geigers came from in Europe I would want to take a look at any LDs films that might be available for Bissingen-on-the-Entz, Wuerttemberg. My reason for saying that is that we know for a fact that Anna Margaret Geiger, the second wife of Peter Binkley, was from that village. It tells us so in the records of First Moravian Church, York, PA. Since the Binkleys were closely allied with the NC Geigers there is at least some possibility that John Adam Geiger, the progenitor of that line, is from the same Geiger family as Anna Margaret. It certainly might prove helpful to check it out if possible. Joan