I just received an e-mail from Barbara J. Brown who is working on a book and stopped long enough to ask me a question that I guess I tried to hide from until now. Nothing that she presented is news to me but I guess I just have been ignoring the facts on this one. So listen up and put your thinking caps on all of you Christian Geiger descendants--here is something to think about. We assume Christian Geiger's first wife (and probably the mother of his son Wilhelm) is Barbara. We know Christian married Anna Maria Esskuchen 18 March 1739. We know Christian married again, after Anna Maria's death, on 23 Oct. 1752 to a widow Christina Veit. We also know that Christian Geiger wrote his will and died in May of 1779, and in that will he names his wife Christiana. Then explain this! From the records of Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, PA; Oct. 9, 1773: Christina, wife of Christian Geiger, who fell down the stairs and remained dead at the same place, ages 60 years and a few weeks. If Christina fell down the stairs and died in Oct. 1773 then who is the wife Christiana referred to in Christian's will in 1779???? Did he remarry once again???? Joan