This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/TJB.2ACI/503.508.947 Message Board Post: came across the name Spanier while looking through the Backes name board.My paternal grandmother was a Zimmer and while tracing her lineage,I found that one of the earliest ancestors was a man named Bernardi Spanier(born around 1652).Wifes name was Susanna and they had seven kids.Their daughter Anna Maria was born 1678 and died 3-21-1736.She was married to Joannes Petrus Pluger.Do you have any more info?Thanks!! Sheri