Joan: I enclosed the sheet that I copied that from in the things I sent you. The spellings were all Geiger but someone may have been creative. I am getting wiser in my researching and the next time I go to Westmoreland I will be able to look further. Eleanor > -----Original Message----- > From: JYoung6180@aol.com [SMTP:JYoung6180@aol.com] > Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 1998 10:50 AM > To: GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [GEIGER-L] Benjamin Geiger > > Eleanor, I am glad you were able to actually check those census > records--the > index I was using was the Broderbund index for Westmoreland for 1810 which > only shows the John Geiger in Washington Township--no other Geigers are > shown > in Westmoreland in 1810. The index shows 2 Henry Geyers--one in > Greensburg > and the other in Hempfield and a George in S. Huntingdon. So my confusion > is > resulting from omissions in the CD I guess and not actual omissions on the > census itself. Were the spellings for all of those Geigers I am > missing--GEIGER? Or might the problem be one of creative spellings that I > had > not checked? > > Now if we could find Benjamin Geiger on the 1800 census we would have a > better > idea in tracking his migration. I guess I cannot trust my Cd Index for > that > year either. I will have to check the actual printed Index for Geiger for > 1800. > > Joan