This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: HOSSINGER HASSINGER HOLSINGER Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/Vh.2ADI/2092.1 Message Board Post: Thought I should note that members of the Hossinger family from the Union/Snyder Co. area of Pennsylvania via Richland/Ashland Co. area of Ohio came to Noble County, Indiana at about the same time. If you read the old manuscript records of someone of German learning, the name is written Hoßinger. The character ß, called Eszett, is often mistaken for an 'ls'. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ß Just to note that the census records may be problematic for you, etc. At the moment I haven't really looked into the Hossinger/Hassinger family there much to be able to help sort it out.