This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/YAB.2ACI/2711.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Sandy, Thanks for the information on the origin of the 'Sheron/Shearan' family. I had been wondering if it was an English or Irish name, but I was pretty sure it was not Scots. So many of the names of early immigrants did change over the years - especially the GERMAN ones. In my husband's line he is related to the VonWeidenmeiers of Germany, but here in the U.S. the name became Whitmire!! Thanks again for the information. Karen