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/VRB.2ACE/128.158.1.1.1.1 Message Board Post: Note to those researching YAGER/YEAGER: The name is anglicized from the German JAGER (with an umlaut over the "A"). Most of those in Columbia Co. were probably descendents of Johann Wendel Jager, a Palatine who arrived in 1710. I have found records for my ancestors with all three spellings of the name.