This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: merkel easler craig Well Pfendler etc Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Tk.2ADE/978.1.2.1 Message Board Post: I found this & read it to mean "bernard" father and family, What do you think ?? Bernard Merkel Family, 1854, Baden to Iowa Surname: Merkel Record Type: Volume: 7 Number: 3 (August 1987) Periodical Title: Foothills Inquirer FROM PERiodical Source Index (PERSI)