Pat: You are probably correct about people with the Seitz surname, although I wouldn't rule out ties through some female lines. There were also more Beerys to start with in Fairfield County, hence more descendants. The Beery name is well researched in many places in addition to Fairfield County. The family has had at least four books written about either the entire family or a particular branch. Two by Joseph Wenger early in this century, which contain errors; another by William Beery and his daughter, Judith Beery Garber, in 1957 and one in 1975 by Phyllis Fulk and Lois Brown about the Page County, Iowa, branch of Beerys, which has Fairfield County ties. I only wish trio of men who are known to have been researching the Seitz family back in the 1920s and 1930s had gotten around to writing a book on the family. One of them, Edward Seitz Shumaker, did edit a book on the descendants of Henry Keller, another early settler in Fairfield County, who married Lewis Seitz's sister Catherine in York County, Penn. -- Karl Seitz >Karl, > >Enjoyed reading your introduction to the Fairfield Co., OH mailing list. >For any of us who have done general research on Fairfield Co. names, >Seitz and Beery are well known. You mentioned that you probably have >distant cousins in the area. I don't know about Seitz, but there are many >Beery's descended from Nicholas Beery and his children. It is a well >researched name in Fairfield County. > >Pat >pberens@greenapple.com